According to a Forbes article from 2021, there are about 1,300 "intentional communities" (communes) in the U.S. today. Down from roughly 3,000 in the '60s and '70s.
Reasons for the initial decline of the communes varied but among them was the increase in the cost of living and hippies finding it impossible to live on nearly nothing. They discovered they couldn't make dropping out work as the price of gasoline skyrocketed and never came down, which drove up the costs of nearly every other commodity.
So, they dropped back in.
I wonder as social order deteriorates, if young people will once again try to drop out just to be away from the "politics, pollution and general hassle."
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