Regen Community ToolsThe Resourcing Ledger
People will tell you community living is cheap and abundant, or that it is a rich person's hobby. Both are half true, and neither helps you decide. This is a reckoning in three columns: what moves out of money, what stays yours to pay for, and the column nobody writes down, what gets harder.
This tool makes no claims about any community. It does not know what yours absorbs, and it will not guess.
It asks you. Then it organises your answers into something you can print and take into the conversation.
Nothing is sent anywhere. No accounts, no analytics, no network requests. Your answers stay in this browser.
What does your life cost right now?
Not amounts. Just whether it is a real line in your life. Skip anything that does not apply to you.
In the arrangement you are considering, what happens to each one?
Answer from what you actually know, not what you hope. Do not know yet is the most useful answer here, and it is not a failure. Every one of those becomes a question worth asking out loud before you commit.
Now the column nobody writes down.
Abundance and constraint arrive together. A person can be genuinely better resourced than they have ever been and still unable to fly home when a parent is dying. These are the questions the brochures skip.
Your ledger
This is your own reckoning, reorganised. Nothing here is our opinion of your community.
Moves out of money
Stays yours to pay
Gets harder
Questions you cannot answer yet
This is the useful part. Take it into the room. A group that can answer these has been tested; a group that has never discussed them has not.
You answered everything, which means either you know this arrangement unusually well or you are answering from hope. Worth checking which. The three or four you were least certain about are the ones to raise anyway.
A note on what this is not. There is no reliable dataset on the cost of living inside intentional
communities, so this tool refuses to estimate one. It asserts nothing about any place. Every line above
is yours. If a tool ever tells you what a community will cost you without asking the community, distrust it.
The third column exists because it is the one that gets quietly softened. Mobility, liquidity, the price of
leaving, and the cost of explaining yourself at every family dinner are real, and naming them is the
difference between a reckoning and a brochure.