Have you ever tromped up the stairs to your apartment wishing you knew those neighbors who were cooking the yummy-smelling plantains? Or gazed at the empty lot on the corner of your street and fantasized about a community garden? Plenty of people yearn to develop closer relationships with the land and the people around them -- and some of them actually do something about it. In this month's Global Citizen, columnist Elizabeth Sawin describes the six years of planning and dreaming that culminated in her moving, earlier this summer, into Cobb Hill Co-Housing, an intentional community in Vermont. Live communally, vicariously, or be inspired to follow your own dreams, on the Grist Magazine website.