Oh Yes, I would move my family there in a heartbeat.

Assuming the local language is English and the climate acceptable, I'd go as quickly as I could turn my frns to gold.

In a heartbeat!

The closest thing to a real Gultch is probably Simon Black's place in Chile. I love Chile and would go in heartbeat. But, and there is always a but, they really don't have anyplace to live on his ranch and you need to build a place, etc., etc., some where aroundthe area.

I want to move to a Gulch in a few years and have started the planning process. PM me if you want in on the Gulch planning process.

We are trying to create this in New Hampshire through the Free State Project http://www.freestateproject.org.

Not usually through my own choice, I have lived in over 60 places in my life. Many of those were part of a search for survival.

In all of mankind's migrations to greener pastures, people tend to take their problems with them and find them infesting and recurring in the new places.

If you find a place you really like for its natural treasures--food, water, climate, resources, technology--work at making its social and political climate safe and pleasant, too. Military enforcements are neither safe nor pleasant. They are not the mainstays of civilization.

In today's world one can choose one's associates, not necessarily as physical neighbors but as online companions. It is not necessary to pile them all into one village. We can have philosophical and even business interactions at a distance.

My current lifestyle lets me avoid government interference as much as possible, too small to be a nail to be hammered down. I have few needs and wants and have all the intellectual stimulation and good physical health I could want. So I don't feel a need to run away and hide out in some other idyllic locale, though I might like to visit there occasionally to enjoy kindred spirits, especially if you build the Gulch in the mountains.

This virtual Gulch is really intellectual stimulation a-plenty, and not all of it pleasant. Sometimes it feels like walking through a beautiful valley with venomous snakes in the underbrush, ready to strike at seemingly no provocation.

I respectfully submit that we work at turning the world at large into a more peaceful, productive and rewarding place. This is a very small globe, and it's running out of places to escape to. And such escape would be short-lived as long as the general hell keeps growing. Removing force, fraud and predation from human relationships is worth working at to reach an objectively happy co-existence, one without conflict of interest in an atmosphere of lively diversity and creative collaboration. Then we can truly reach for the stars.

I would because I laid out what I want to facilitate in previous comments on this question.

I would love to be in a real gulch. I suspect we would have a problem in that so many people would want to come in. All the producers and tax base would leave the real world just like the book. This would be a threat to other countries and ultimately man being man others would want to destroy it. We would need a means to defend the gulch.

Without John Galt's machine, or it's equivalent, such a community would be impossible.
Galt's Gulch required individuals to work at jobs other than what they are trained to do. I couldn't do that. I love engineering design and will always do that.
A real Gulch should be a dedicated self-reliant community.
I believe that such a community must be off-grid.
It must have its own independent water system.
It must grow it's own food.
The liberal establishment is destroying our country. The economy will crash and the Grid will go down.
If you do not live in such a community you may not endure.

I have designed Solar Collector that concurrently produces both electricity and steam.
It utilizes about 75% of available solar energy, converting 32% of the received energy to electricity and using 43% to produce steam.

I have also designed a Multiple Effect Desalination unit that uses the steam product of the Bradford Collector to desalinate seawater or to distill polluted river water or brackish groundwater.

I have also designed an energy and water system that will provide for all of the energy and water for an Off-Grid Independent Self-reliant community that a real Gulch must be.

By minimizing the use of Uncle Sam's money you can reduce the effect that our corrupt government has on your lives.

My designs will make it possible to create farmland in arid or desert regions.

Please visit my website, www.texanhomeenergy.com or connect with me on LinkedIn

I would love to be the "City Engineer" for a real Gulch Community.

Unlike John Galt's machine my designs do not violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

I would go. It would be easy, because the people who mean the most to me would want to go, too.

I'd go there in a heartbeat.

My view is we can make our own gulch. I person quit my job in the city purchased a small ranch 26 miles from neatest gallon of milk and tried to become self sufficient.

I've lost most of my family - I'd move there in a heartbeat.

most definately

I would; and I'd trade my knowledge for the means to feed, clothe and shelter my family.

We won't be moving to any Gulch, as we have already chosen our own, and here we make stand, as best we can under the thumb of the current "system". While we love the Gulch concept of autonomy and true liberty, it will never happen -- because most people unthinkingly believe they *must* be governed.

We have our own Gulch on which we've been working for some years, living in a remote community in which (not all, but...) our "true" friends share the concept. Our homestead consists of our land and home which we will defend to our end. No, it's not the greatest, but we reside where we choose, and we continue to make it better.

Everyone either cannot move or be willing to move, to some place not of our own choosing, merely to be with a huge horde of other people, even *if* they share the commonality of Liberty.

Honestly, you know what would be an incredibly awesome idea?

Detroit is freaking bankrupt. Completely and utterly bankrupt in every way (financially and morally).

Detroit owns Belle Isle. Detroit could use some cash. Belle Isle is in the middle of the Detroit River, smack dab between mainland Michigan and Canada (like 1/2 mile from each, not exactly far).

Buy Belle Isle for a ridiculous sum of money. It's already only served by bridge, restrict bridge access to a train open for public use. Found the City-State of Belle Isle, run it as a free nation.

It's seriously an idea someone has floated, but the cronies in Detroit rejected:
http://www.commonwealthofbelleisle.com/

In all honesty, there's quite a few "islands" that would be ideal for something like this. On the other mouth of Lake St Clair, in the St. Clair River, you have the inhabited Harsens Island (sparsely inhabited, mainly a swamp), which is MUCH larger, and near a more rural part of Michigan, even though it's only about 15-20 miles by boat from Belle Isle. You also have Walpole Island that belongs to Canada, even less populated and larger. And there's a few others nearby.

Likely there's plenty of islands like this that would be ideal opportunities. I mean, offer the City of Detroit $2 billion. That's the ENTIRE BUDGET of the City of Detroit for one full year. All for a 1.5 square mile "mostly-unused-unless-you're-homeless-or-a-dealer" park.

I would. Most definitely.

I think a floating city would be most talealistic and ideal. Solar and abound and water already available. Add technology and shuttles to ports, what more could anyone want. I incision a floating oil rig size vessel. Maybe multiples, thus joining together or solo travel. Each could be set to self sustain its own communities.

Maybe I've said too much.

If there were non-secretive Gulches, I would visit one for vacation every year. I'm hoping within my lifetime there is at least one to choose from.

I wouldn't tell anyone if I knew of a secret Gulch, but I wouldn't want to live there.

In many ways because of loved ones who don't seek such a setting. That could be a motivating factor to move there all the sooner.

I would in a heartbeat! I am 67, but I would go!

I would!