90% of home schoolers lack the basic skills to teach their kids modern science and history. Or help their kids socialize. "Small communities" "bearing arms" typically end up as min-dictatorships or cults. And, if you are suggesting dropping out because paranoia says "the gummint" is coming to get you and you need to arm up,I'd suggest you Google some Hellfire missile videos, see what they do to a tank and figure out what they'll do to your stick build home.Of course, there are always those Mormon cult communities where polygamy is embraced. I'm not sure if the extra wives are a boon or a bane, especially since you have to reach Grand Poobah status to have them.

You had me till the bear arms part. I don't mind hunting but don't want to be anywhere they are stockpiling guns because they think the government is out to get them.