Commuity - What does it take?

[bigpaul]

first of all you need people WILLING to be part of your community, if all you have are TAKERS but not givers then you'll get nowhere. the UK is now full of people who are only in it for what they can get and to hell with the rest of us, modern generations seem to have this "me,me,me" attitude, so if community is the way you want to go, you have to pick your community members with care and not just take ALL COMERS. you may have to turn people away, maybe they don't have the skills you want, or you have enough people for the resources you have already, how are you going to deal with rejecting people? and can you afford to turn people away who then know where your community is located? how do you deal with theft from the community? or maybe even worse crimes?