Reply #1: I have no answers but will kick this for you and wish you luck.

[karlrschneider]

My first blush impression is that it can certainly 'work' but it seems to me there would need to be a LOT of give and less take, as it were, to sustain it. There have been some communes in the USA that have worked out for extended periods (and of course in other parts of the world) but I don't think it comes easy. (FWIW, it's something I and my SO have sort of considered for many years but never quite managed to dredge up the courage to actually try.) If you don't have a lot to lose, why not give it a shot, though? Good luck in any case.