Thanks for the thoughts. At Woodbine, we’re involved in expanding to upstate NY. One of the main questions we’ve been having is how to come into a community and follow the entitled view of the metropolis that anything “outside” of the city is a blank slate. So for us, it is a slow process of learning the rhythms of the place, of the land, of the soul that makes the place special. Its a very slow process, and as much as we try to speed it up, it must be deliberate. So for me, one thing I’d like to hear from the conversation is how do we go about that process? How do we avoid the colonizer mentality that honestly so many of us from Europe/US have? In addition, how can we allow the natural land to change the extractive way we think about our lives? For me, if we expand upstate only to make it a co-working space where everyone is on their laptops “working from home” would be a failure. Because as theory teaches us, it is the revolution of everyday life, the interactions, the way we laugh and love that allow us to create the “new cultures” mentioned above. That process can be beautiful and also have the revolutionary power to change the world.