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Yeah, yeah, I realize how my question may have sounded, but I get the gist of employment economics (just the basics). However, I have never heard of a major relocation of 20K people.

Well, the relocation of kids to safer areas, including Canada and US during the *Blitz* bombing of Great Britain by the Germans comes to mind, as does the resettlement of those residing in the Warsaw Ghetto, though those examples are more drastic and less voluntary on the part of the participants than the FSP effort.

In more recent times, the *chicken run* and *gapping it* flight from Rhodesia circa 1979-'80 as the Mugabe government siezed power and began its steps toward the ethnic clensing of the IsiNdebele tribe and whites in Zimbabwe offers another example, as does the less-intense migration of hippies and communalists to Vermont in the '70s and '80s. But those efforts were more scattershot efforts at survival, and less carefully thought out as to long-term political goals of the participants.

Sucess often breeds imitation. It'll be interesting to see if others attempt something similar: If the FSP porcupines can do it in New Hampshire, we can do it in.... [insert your favourite or worst nightmare as a target goal for various factions or groups here....]

I could imagine some quantity of them the entreprenurial (sp?) but not a large quantity. In the original post, I kinda took it as a short period of time for them to all move, from further reading I understand it is a slow growth situation. Much easier, people relocate and the economy grows with it.

I don't know how many Bill Gates, Clarence Saunders, John Moses Brownings, or Fred Smiths we'd need; and we wouldn't want to be competing against each other in the same fields. But the move is to come within five years of our acquiring 20,000 members; I expect that's going to happen rather quickly, but the FSP projection is for it to take place in about 113.7 weeks, given the past numbers and rate of growth. Note that within a year, we had about 1000 members; 12 months later, 5500.

So for some, it could be in 7 years, give or take a few months, for others- well, they're there already. Pretty soon you'll be seeing a running tally not just of numbers of pledged porcupines, but also of those who've made the move. I expect they'll be a factor in the 2008 election, maybe a major factor.

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