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The village we want to build will offer to the international tourist the unique experience of travelling in space and time, to a fascinating parallel universe where the best aspects of the civilization of two centuries ago will pacifically co-exist with satellite communications, personal computers and modern medicine.
Thanks to the appropriate technologies it will be possible to produce a better and happier lifestyle for the residents, with fewer capitals needed to be invested and higher than average returns for the investors.
It is not going to be easy. For instance, to secure the success of the operation it is indispensable to protect for years the residents from the allurements of the consumeristic world, and this task can be far more difficult than it appears.
The residents will be able to enjoy in a relatively short time, food, housing, clothing and basic services well above local average.
They will be in a position to enjoy themselves by participating to parties and concerts, frequenting a gym or a library, or having meals at Restaurants and Pizzerias.
Still the beer they will drink will be village made and at concerts will be a local band to play.
For many years they will have to do without brand name clothing, KFC and even Coca-Cola, if we want the village to grow, and this is not a small problem in today world.
Certainly there are going to be serious problems, as always when someone does something new, but also the rewards are going to be a lot higher than normal.
Just the increase in property values within two years can easily double the total sum of the capitals invested.
In fact, when the cost of building is basically reduced to the cost of labour and the cost of labour is a fraction of current costs, the commercial value of the buildings will be several time their building cost.
Obviously, to make it possible, it is imperative to limit ourselves to a specific building method, utilizing mainly local materials and applying a high degree of standardization in the basic components (including roofing, fixtures, flooring, electrical and sanitary fittings, furniture and sewers), to be constructed in the village, in a scale large enough, by an adequate number of people, provided with sufficient skills and the right tools.
For this reason it is essential to respect a minimum size for the village.
Under the one thousand residents the whole project will not be viable, but it will be better to have a lot more (up to thirty thousand) for the best results.
Naturally, with a work force largely based on experienced senior citizen guiding largely unskilled people, we need to be very careful about the technological solutions to be adopted, in order to optimise the utilization of human resources.
It is not going to be easy, we said, but definitively it will be not impossible.
The Italian Renaissance was built, in a scale similar to the one suggested, utilizing technologies far less efficient as the ones available today, and without foreign tourism to cover the costs.
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