The Big Idea
This isn’t a housing arrangement with some community features bolted on. It’s a deliberate choice to live differently — to build your daily life around people who have chosen each other, not just ended up next to each other.
True North is a small intentional community built for women who have made the radical decision to center their own lives — who have stepped off the paths that were handed to them and chosen, deliberately, to live by their own values, instincts, and priorities instead. Here, we share space, resources, and genuine commitment to each other's wellbeing. We are building something that is greater than the sum of its parts — a life that is richer, more secure, and more meaningful because we are living it together.
What is True North?
True North is more than a compass direction. Throughout human history, true north has been the fixed navigational point that travelers relied on to stay oriented — to know where they were, and to find their way forward.
We chose this name deliberately. In a world that constantly pulls women toward other people’s priorities, other people’s timelines, and other people’s definitions of a good life, True North is an invitation to reorient. To come back to yourself. To live in alignment with your own values, instincts, and sense of purpose — and to do it alongside women who have made the same choice, and don't intend to unmake it.
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Our Mission
We are building a small intentional community for women who have chosen to live on their own terms — and who are ready to live that way in genuine company. Life here will be engaged and lively, shaped by curiosity, participation, and genuine mutual care: shared spaces that support real conversation, creative and collaborative work, and the kind of everyday connection that women like us have been quietly building toward our whole lives.
Our Vision
A community where no one falls through the cracks. Where aging is something we navigate together rather than alone. Where the people around you notice when you’re struggling, celebrate when you’re thriving, and show up — not because they have to, but because that’s simply who we are to each other.
We are building this as a tiny house village — a model we chose deliberately. Many intentional communities require punishing buy-in sums, putting them out of reach for most women navigating life on a single income. We believe that financial accessibility isn’t a compromise — it’s a value. Your home will be yours: as simple or as appointed as fits your life and circumstances, sized right for the life you are living now and the one you are building toward. We live lightly on the land and invest heavily in the relationships that make life worth living.
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Our Values
These values shape life at True North — and are the ones we look for in the women who join us.
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Depth over breadth.
We choose fewer, realer connections over a busy social calendar. We go beneath the surface because that’s where life actually happens.
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Presence as a practice.
We show up — for shared meals, for difficult conversations, for the unglamorous work of maintaining a community. Being here matters.
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Autonomy with accountability.
Every woman here is the author of her own life. We respect that fiercely — and we also hold each other to our commitments to the community.
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Curiosity as a way of being.
We are interested in ideas, in the world, in each other. We ask questions. We change our minds. We keep learning.
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Care that doesn’t wait to be asked.
We notice. We check in. We bring soup without being told someone is sick. This is the culture we are building — one small act of attention at a time.