Managing Director, Free Cities Foundation
United Kingdom
Joined June 2020
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Peter Young retweeted
Can you build a community before you build a city?
@MrTimothyAllen talks to @TelamonArdavani of @JoinEdgeCity about pop-up villages, who pays for them, and what remains when everyone goes home.
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Austin is one of the most interesting places in the US right now for people building new communities.
I’ll be heading there in a couple of weeks to visit Proto-Town, Sanctuary and some of the other new developments springing up in and around the city.
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I’ll also be taking part in the Principled Business Summit (@PrincipledBus), a major gathering of entrepreneurs who believe in capitalism as a force for good.
If you’ll also be there, drop me a message and I’d love to connect.
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On Thursday, Oct 29, I’ll take part in a panel “Cities as Startups: Can We Build Better Places to Live?” where we’ll discuss the developments in Austin and how they relate to the broader Free Cities movement globally.
Sign up here to join us:
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Peter Young retweeted
Do you owe your country a lifetime of trying to fix it?
@Ideiasradicais ran for office in Brazil. Losing came as a relief.
Now he lives in Paraguay.
@MrTimothyAllen asks: when is leaving the better answer?
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Peter Young retweeted
The gallery is online. 📸
1,000+ pictures from four days in Próspera: talks, awards, pool party, sunsets, and a lot of happy faces.
Find yourself, tag the people you met.
A candid conversation between @MrTimothyAllen and @PatrickHiebert about voting with your feet, building freedom-oriented communities, and the trade-offs involved in actually moving abroad. Some interesting discussion of the state of the UK and Canada too.
What's stopping you from relocating?
@PatrickHiebert is planning to build a European town on a Costa Rican cattle ranch. Thirty hectares, cobbled streets, cafés & shops.
Then he asks @MrTimothyAllen the awkward question. Given everything he says about Britain, why is he still living there?
Watch👇
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Peter Young retweeted
What's stopping you from relocating?
@PatrickHiebert is planning to build a European town on a Costa Rican cattle ranch. Thirty hectares, cobbled streets, cafés & shops.
Then he asks @MrTimothyAllen the awkward question. Given everything he says about Britain, why is he still living there?
Watch👇
youtube.com/watch?v=QK7dfgoF…
Peter Young retweeted
This week: The longest episode we've ever made. Nearly four hours with @thetreygoff, chief of staff at @ProsperaGlobal.
This is an extremely deep dive into AI and what it might mean for you in the future.
It opens on security: a flaw that sat unnoticed in hardware wallets for five years, and what happened when a model finally found it. Then OpenAI agents escaping a test sandbox and taking over a data centre.
Then it turns to something that matters more for most people.
Trey calls it 'The Sort'. AI won't lift everyone equally. It accelerates a separation that was already underway, between people who use these tools to multiply what they can do and people who get replaced by them.
From there: meaning versus happiness, flow state, and whether a man running a chicken farm in Mississippi is living a better life than a private equity partner in Manhattan.
Do not miss 👇
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Our 200th episode of the Free Cities Podcast is released today. @erickbrimen is as eloquent as ever in describing Próspera's strategy for economic development. High signal episode.
200 episodes.
The first was recorded in @ProsperaGlobal four years ago. So is the 200th.
@erickbrimen, founder and CEO, on the press war, the arbitration, Crawfish Rock, and whether Próspera survives its own success.
What's changed in four years is that this used to be about what a Free City might be. It's now about arbitration clauses, schools, power supply and why nobody can get a decent coffee.
Less glamorous. Much better sign.
Thanks to everyone who's listened, argued, supported or been on the show.
Watch👇
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Peter Young retweeted
What if the real value of a network state isn’t replacing the nation state, but giving people a layer of coordination the state can’t easily control?
@pcekerevac calls it a “cloud Hanseatic League”: money, contracts, communication and communities preserved online, then “downloaded” into physical jurisdictions when the opportunity appears.
We also get into Próspera, pop-up cities, Vitalia, why some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names are paying attention, and whether the future is one Próspera or 20,000.
New episode of the Free Cities Podcast 👇
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Peter Young retweeted
Thinking of joining us at the Free Cities Conference in Próspera next week?
Early bird ticket prices end at midnight tonight.
Current prices:
Economy: $279
Regular: $359
VIP: $849
From midnight, prices rise to $299, $399 and $999.
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Peter Young retweeted
Two founders discuss AI.
One's bought land in the Canadian woods with its own water and power.
The other says this is the best time in history to build.
Who's right? 👇
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@liamremote @ManageYourTime @RunningRemote @helpscout
Peter Young retweeted
No audience looks like this one. City builders, jurisdiction-shopping investors, families, students, retirees planning their exit.
What they share: they'd rather build than complain. Don't miss this year's conference, Sep 3 - 6, 2026, Próspera, Roatán. Tickets are live.
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A company came on the show to explain its plan to launch the first country on the internet.
Not a network state. An actual passport, a safety net that crosses borders with you.
Joey Flores of @SafetyWing makes the case 👇
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Night one of the Free Cities Conference 2025 in Prague. Strangers at 7pm, co-conspirators by midnight.
This September we do it again, inside an actual Free City. Don't miss this year's conference, Sep 3 - 6, 2026, Próspera, Roatán. Tickets are live.
Peter Young retweeted
Europe isn’t dying because people stopped loving it.
It’s dying because builders, capital and optimism are leaving.
Vance from @MyLatinLife says the next supercycle belongs to the Americas and explains how to build your Plan B.
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Peter Young retweeted
Our @MailynSpeaks representing Free Cities Foundation at FreedomFest 2026, connecting with freestead and alternative governance doers building the future of governance.
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At 71, @JoyceBrand12 moved to the outskirts of Choloma, once called the most dangerous city in one of Latin America's most dangerous countries.
She went to chronicle the building of a Free City from its first residents. Then she stayed.
EP 190 👇
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@CiudadMorazan @MassimoMazzone4
Peter Young retweeted
He built the world's first nomad village. He's created communities for governments from Rio to Nagasaki. He could live anywhere on Earth.
He moved his family to a Free City in the Caribbean.
New episode: @Gonzohall on the Bali playbook, what's working in @ProsperaGlobal and what isn't yet, and why a playground might matter more than a beach club.👇
youtube.com/watch?v=FbCybLt2…