[noamyoungerm]

Your idea is basically a smaller version of a Kibbutz (excluding the shared finances). Interesting to see that kind of approach pop up in the US.

[tsotha]

Utopian communes in the US predate the Kibbutz by almost 100 years. They mostly died out by the early 1900s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Utopian_commun...

[Rhapso]

I'm explicitly interesting in seeing how to convert a kibbutz to american legal and value system. Its a bit of a mess. The US tax code is not really built with that sort of thing in mind. Right now it looks like building a LLC to represent group interests is the best options.

[secabeen]

It also falls under the category of co-housing.