produce their own> use public roads?? I browsed thru a few of the links but could not see mention of this--of course I might have missed it.

Two words: Opus Dei.

I would rather not live there and I Catholic. But the Amish way of life doesn't appeal to me either. I doubt most would want the city of Berkeley to change the way they live.

1,000,000 times.

someone indicated that they have had to create some of their own businesses. For example, none of the mainstream banks would put a branch in that town and a supermarket chain also refused to put a store there too.

2500 residence is very small.

Country. I wonder what the murder rate is? Robbery? Most likely zero. Great idea that we should emulate.

If so, based on the lives of your average American Catholic, there is x-rated content being viewed by many men and some women and kids, and 98% of Catholic women use birth control sometime during their lives, so there is protected sex going on in this town, the method delivered straight to their front door, or picked up at the CVS, just outside city limits.

See basically all of tumblr.

Its mainly populated with seniors wanting to live in south Florida. So birth control is not an issue. A typical retirement community. It's way out in the boonies with few neighbors. Wouldn't live there if you paid me. The law school set a record last year with the fewest graduates passing the Bar in the State of Florida.

which weren't selling. Then they targeted Senior housing. I would be willing to bet that the majority living there are Seniors instead of families. As you mentioned, Collier is not known as a family oriented area anyway. So who did they think would move there? The county is mostly retired people and snowbirds.

However, not having NCH in there might be more of a problem for older people.

Let them try to get along without US.

When we were looking for a retirement home in 2007, I checked into the various Del Webb communities. I was pretty damn sure I didn't want to move into a community called Ave Maria! If people were interested and looked over the community rules and regulations and moved in and now don't like it, they can always move out.

I wouldn't choose to live there, but apparently some people do. It's fair to assume that they must agree with the local theocracy before they move in. If they agree to the rules beforehand, I wouldn't call this a First Amendment issue.

missionaries did in North Korea. Hopefully, I won't get caught and sentenced to a Monaghan/Scalia Catholic Work Camp. If I disappear from DU, please contact Bill Richardson.

Can't deprive them of the bare necessities, ya know.

But there has been trouble in paradise. Construction has halted, leaving half-built subdivisions to mildew in the tropical heat. Lawsuits and a federal investigation have dogged Monaghan. Ave Maria University's ambitious athletic program fell to pieces amid an unholy trinity of F-bombs, firings, and defections. And the town's hidden, anti-democratic, and perhaps unconstitutional origins have been splashed across local news. Instead of a city on a hill, Ave Maria has become a place of secrets and sectarianism.

to keep people in, or out as the case may be?

or Chas. Meade's End Time Ministries in Lake City, Fl. The sprout up like mushrooms on cow flop, then morph into something else; hell a nudist camp could be in the offing. Same as it ever wuz.

...and it's a bit more of a haul, but there's an adult video story 35 miles west.

of a democratic process. They hid it from the people who bought property that total control would remain with the Developer. They also might not realize that the town would be a leech on the county relying on services that Contractor did not want to pay for.

Plenty of KoolAid there.

I do not want to live in their totalitarian religious state. Fuck that.