I think you're dead right. I have been in Bangkok for the last few months and one of the things I noticed was how lonely people are yet they live on top of each other. The idea of community feels more than just being in one place' this idea of working together to achieve something for everyone. I can't help but feel that being in the natural world demands this from us - using and exploring our environment and living from it. In doing this, we work together, we speak together, we eat together and we learn together and this eases that worry, that loneliness and that sense of hopelessness.

I think your idea is lovely and even if your grandchildren don't always live there, it will give them a sense of home; something that's so hard to find in this day and age!