Party Vibe

I tried putting in the postcode on his websive (IV7 8WF) onto some mapping software and one site didn’t recognise it at all – another (Google) came back to a rather more built-up area than I expected (but North of it the sat picture was obscured by cloud).

TBH I think simply to live in such an area requires an ethos of community or communal living…… maybe it even comes naturally due to the remoteness and effects of proximity to nature…

another more interesting experiment IMO (or maybe a parallel one to this) would be to see if intentional communities can work in such places as Luton, Colchester and Ipswich – to integrate with the city and urban areas rather than just escape to the countryside (although the countryside is not far away in these areas)..

The Google maps one I tried came up with a council office in the Dingwall area near an industrial estate – “close but nae seegar, laddie”…

I expect their postcode handling is broken. American GIS software often has trouble with British postcodes, it tries to convert them into lat/long references..

the pics you found are in the same region though; TBH I don’t think its that remote and I suspect the council offices/industrial estate are within 50 miles or even closer. I’m sure raj or someone else could suggest some far wilder places 😉

i guess a lot of its to do with scarcity of land down here, and peoples preconceptions

historically East Anglia was one of the first areas to accept enclosure and private ownership of land…

also Exodus nearly did it and fucked up big time which doesn’t help

still think its worth a try in the future.

One success story in this respect is “Dial House”, the Crass building in Essex…

although the chaps who wrote these comics were based mostly around Dundee so the accent may be too far South for Inverness. Also many versions of these comics exist where the speech bubbles have been anglicised (maybe for reprinting in Southern newspapers?)

I have been trying to learn the geography of Scotland by studying whisky bottles (and their contents); and thus I may be off by a few miles now and then 🙂

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fair play…

it needs to be done round here and in this area (Eastern and South-Eastern England)

in SW england, the North and Scotland there are already communities and projects like this

but there are less in the East for reasons I mentioned previously

but there are no rational reasons why this should be so…