NuMundo - EA Hotel, Blackpool

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EA* Hotel with free accommodation and board for 2 years. Buildings in the run-down seaside holiday resort of Blackpool (UK) are really cheap. I’ve bought a 17 bedroom hotel with dining room, lounge and bar for £130k. Assuming a 7% rental yield, this works out at about £45 per person per month rent. Factoring in bills, catering, and a modest stipend/entertainment budget, living costs should be as low as £5700/person/year (or lower for people sharing rooms).

The idea is to invite people to live here, with all their expenses covered by donors for say, 2 years to start with (obviously people are also welcome to stay for a shorter amount of time). Funding is in place for the first year of operations. The project will be managed by someone who lives on site and deals with all the admin/finances, shopping/cooking/cleaning, socials/events and morale – they will also have free living expenses, and be paid a modest salary. Note that this should be considered as a potential high impact, high prestige supporting role, for those excited to be involved in such a capacity on an EA mission. Guests will be free from concerns of material survival, and be able to have prolonged and uninterrupted focus on whatever projects they are working on. Obviously these will be largely limited to purely desk-based, or remote work.