A ‘boots on the ground visit’ to Fairfield is a good way to tap in. Those of us who make lives here use The Fairfield Weekly Reader which is distributed to points around town every Thursday to tap in. It advertises all the many arts, presentations, movies, lectures, and various spiritual satsang events happening in the area every week. Also some ads for rentals. Folks who make lives here go through the FF Weekly Reader and add to their own calendars accordingly. If you have initiative to show up at things there is a tremendous amount of higher talented culture to attend to in Fairfield. There are a few poster bulletin boards in town that are important to the flow of things here too, like in the entryway to Everybody’s Whole Foods (grocery) there is a feature of a big bulletin board that is actively used.
Thinking of you I noticed on the Everybody's bulletin board quite a number of different rentals posted there. It seems the rental market here is competitive with choice. There are a number of folks here in the meditating community who took the seminars years ago about building wealth through real estate and pursued that. Their grown offspring are also here now doing this kind of development. Also the surrounding Farmer community was making so much money a few years ago that they started plowing in to rental real estate in Fairfield too. So yes there are a lot of landlords and options for rental. I have meditator friends who are long time renters up in Utopia Park, the trailers by the campus who really like living there. Again, you have to have a valid Dome badge to live there. I have other long time meditator TM movement friends who do not hold valid Dome badges who live in a different trailer area. There is quite a group of older TM movement folks in some subsidized elder housing in the middle of town too. Come visit as a type of pilgrimage and see what can work for you. .D ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <skymt...@yahoo.com> wrote : Thanks. This and prior post on ILC are helpful. They confirm my sense of ILC. It may be good for at some later point for a retreat period. However, for now, I want to get to know the community and explore FF. Living in town works better for me for that. For housing rentals, I have been looking at Craigslist/SE Iowa and HomeShareFairfield, the Facebook group. Does anyone have other good sources of rental listing? Anyone know of good sites or blogs for information pertinent to relocating to FF. Sites like https://www.fairfieldinfocenter.org/fairfield-tm-information-center/ https://www.fairfieldinfocenter.org/fairfield-tm-information-center/transportation-ground/ are useful but general. I have looked for, but not found, any feet-on-the-ground type of guide, with the knowledge locals all know and very relevant to newcomers -- the nitty gritty of functioning in a new location. I have been plugging away, finding bits and pieces here and there. I may compile such on a blog or site for other potential newcomers. It could speed up the process of figuring out if FF is a viable option for them -- and ease their transition if they decide to take the plunge.
