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The community-creation aspect of home/unschooling has been, for me, the primary job I perform as a parent. At 17+, my elder son *does not know any girls!* Not literally; he knows a few, but there is no circle of eligible girls for dating, and it really bums his out. Add in his criteria for a mate, and the options get *really* thin. I know we will move (although he will be launched at that point) in the next several years, and, this time, I NEED to know there is a critical mass of people who share my values in the general area. I have good and real friends and have been so grateful to see the seeds of more in some of our online communities, but I want to make sure that I have that second derivative of a we-might-not-be-besties-but-you-won’t-put-me-in-a-boxcar bubble when I enter the next stage of my life.

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