A Place To Be

https://www.aplacetobe.me/

Freedom-based worldschooling hub in sunny Madeira.
Where children learn skills to rock the 21st century.

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2026-06-21 08:29:46 UTC

We’ve been in Croatia for the past 6 weeks exploring our first Citadel.Garden village and other parts of Istria (A Place To Be will be the second village built - by the way, this week we submitted the design and are waiting for building permission now 😃🙌🏼).
We also started orange pilling and tipped in sats. Maybe next time they’ll accept our bitcoin payment 😇 @npub1de8…0ezd
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2025-10-06 08:36:13 UTC

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Definitely worth it

2025-10-05 14:23:36 UTC

What makes unschooling challenging?
Unschooling isn’t hard because you’re not a professional teacher, you lack resources, intelligence or knowledge. It’s hard because of our conditioning.
Letting go of control, fear, and the belief that we or our children are “failing” if we don’t do it all
The real unschooling journey is internal

2025-09-24 14:44:20 UTC

We’re an Unschooling Neighborhood for Families Who Fiat-Proof Their Kids
Schools teach fiat thinking.
We do something different.
Unschooling is decentralized education — and that's what we live and breathe.
This is what happens when you're surrounded by families on the same path:
No explanations. No judgment.
Just kids learning naturally.
And parents building a better future — together.
Join us at A Place To Be — Madeira
A freedom-first, family-centered community aligned with nature, sovereignty, and Bitcoin values.
What We'll Offer:
- Simple, intentional living close to nature
- Shared co-working space
- Gym and outdoor exercise area
- Community pool and spa area
- Bonfire circle & BBQ areas
- Specialized learning + creative spaces for young and old:
• Research library & computer room
• Science lab
• AI & robotics studio
• Coding hub
• Creative workshop (woodworking, sewing, painting, crafting)
• Music space
• Community kitchen
• Farm animals (cats, dogs, chickens, goats,cows, horses, ponies, donkeys)
• Fruit & vegetable garden and greenhouses, beehives
- Group trips, family-friendly events, workshops, and retreats
- And so much more
Where Our Project’s At
At Bitcoin Atlantis 2024, we met Rahim Taghizadegan, Austrian economist and the founder of Citadel Garden — a trustless digital land network giving sovereign families a secure way to co-own land and build decentralized communities.
He offered us a homebase.
We said yes.
A Place To Be is now part of the Citadel Garden ecosystem — a growing network of freedom-aligned locations.
We finished the topography of 90.000m2 and will soon survey another 200.000m2, the areas that we're allowed to build on, are currently editing the design of the village and plan to submit plans to the municipality mid October 2025.
Our plot of land is over 500.000m2 big and stunningly beautiful!
You HAVE to come and see it...
While we wait for permits, we open the space in its raw form — offering:
bom fire
tent and gathering spots
big trampoline
wood and tools to build and mess around
a place to co-create and connect as we grow
To be up-to-date with our progress visit https://www.aplacetobe.me/updates
We’re building something that matters and accept Bitcoin
Contributions. Thanks for being a part of it.
With love,
Sylvia & The APTB Team
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2025-09-18 12:17:33 UTC

Dear friends,
I’m so proud (and seriously excited) to share something very close to my heart: my husband @nprofile…dqhc has just published his book, Glitch - The Hidden Code Running Your Life (And How To Debug It) .
I believe this is the book the world so desperately needs. It’s written for every single one of us who has been born and raised within this society — caught up in its patterns, pressures, and noise.
And if you’re a parent, Glitch will speak to you on an even deeper level. Because doing our own inner work is the number one thing that allows us to:
* be truly present with our children
* give them real freedom
* act with love instead of fear
* create peace and connection in our homes
* and ultimately, live the life we dream of alongside them
At home and at @nprofile…3yqc, Rob and I live this every single day. We’re constantly learning, unlearning, and finding new ways to bring more calm, joy, and authenticity into our relationships.
What I love about Glitch is that it isn’t theory. It’s Rob’s own self-taught, self-discovered path — a way to untangle the conditioning we’ve all grown up with and find a peace of mind that changes everything:
how we parent, how we love, how we live.
I’m so excited to finally share this with you!
 👉 You can take a look at the book here: www.glitchthebook.co
Love
Sylvia 😊🫶🏼
PS: Share the love
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2025-08-31 09:41:24 UTC

Letter to School Kid Parent
Dear school kid parent,
I know you want the best for your child. I know you love them more than anything in this world. That’s why I am writing to you — not with judgment, but from a place deep in my heart, with love, understanding, and a longing for truth.
I hope you will read this with openness and pause for a moment, because what I am about to share is not often spoken out loud, though many of us feel it in our bones:
School changes your child.
Before you send them away from your loving arms and the warmth of home, their unique character shines, their innocence is intact, their sense of wonder is alive, their curiosity knows no limits. They look at you with trust, with a bond that is natural and unshakable. They want to be with you, learn with you, laugh with you, and grow in your presence. This is what makes them whole.
But school reshapes this.
It teaches them to sit still when their body longs to move.
It teaches them to raise their hand for permission to speak, when their voice deserves to be heard freely.
It teaches them to compete, compare, and measure their worth against others, when in truth their worth is immeasurable.
It teaches them to obey strangers over listening to their own heart and their own family.
It teaches them that learning is a chore, a duty, something done for grades and approval, instead of the joyful, self-driven exploration it naturally is.
Slowly, the spark in their eyes dims. Slowly, they begin to believe that fitting in matters more than being true to themselves. Slowly, they forget that they were once explorers, creators, dreamers.
I know this is painful to hear, but it is the truth many of us have witnessed.
And yet, there is another way.
Children don’t need to be molded — they need to be unfolded. They don’t need to be taught what to think, they need the freedom to think. They don’t need to be standardized; they need to be cherished in their uniqueness.
When a child grows up surrounded by love, family, and a community of caring people, something extraordinary happens. Learning flows naturally — through projects, play, passions, and peers. They learn not because they are forced to, but because life itself is fascinating. They learn responsibility by being included in real life. They learn compassion by being treated with compassion. They learn creativity not by filling out worksheets, but by living in a world that values their ideas and imagination.
And this isn’t just about childhood joy — it’s about preparing them for the future.
We live in times of enormous change. Artificial Intelligence and automation are already replacing traditional jobs. The skills that once mattered most in the school system — memorization, repetition, standardized answers — are now the very skills machines can do better than humans.
The future belongs to those who can do what machines cannot:
- to imagine,
- to empathize,
- to create,
- to collaborate,
- to question,
- to dream.
And those are the very qualities that schools suppress but that natural, free, family-centered learning nurtures.
Your child doesn’t need to be trained for a shrinking job market. They need to be empowered for life — for creating, innovating, building communities, solving problems, loving deeply, and living fully.
And here is something else that is often overlooked: when children grow up whole and unbroken, they don’t just bring joy to their own lives, but to the entire world. A child who learns in freedom becomes an adult who lives in freedom. A child who grows in love brings more love into humanity. A child who is trusted becomes trustworthy.
Dear parent, I know this is not the path most people take. I know it feels safer to do what everyone else does, to send your child to school and hope it will all turn out fine. But the truth is: we cannot outsource childhood. We cannot outsource love. We cannot outsource the one thing our children need most — our presence.
Your child’s time is precious. Their wonder, their laughter, their ideas, their hugs — these years are fleeting, and they will not return. Do not let a system that was never designed for human flourishing steal them away.
You are enough. Your family is enough. Your love is enough. And in choosing to honor childhood, you are not only giving your child the best chance in life — you are also giving the world a gift it so desperately needs: a whole, joyful, capable human being.
www.aPlaceToBe.me
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2025-08-20 20:38:29 UTC

We bought the land today!
530.000 m² of wonderful nature on the best island in the world! 🌿🏝️✨
There is truly no better place than A Place To Be 🥰🫶🏼😇🙌🏼
This is just the beginning of building a sovereign, unschooling neighborhood where families can connect with nature, freedom, and each other. 🌱👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
👉 Follow along as we bring this vision to life — and if you feel called to be part of it, subscribe and book a call with us. Your future home might already be waiting for you here. 💫
www.aPlaceToBe.me
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2025-08-17 08:54:50 UTC

Bitcoin = decentralized money
Unschooling = decentralized education
Sending kids to school?
👉 Still plugged into the system.
👉 Outsourcing parenting.
👉 Limiting their freedom.
👉 Teaching fiat thinking.
Ask why.
Unschooling is easy and fun when you have a community:
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2025-06-23 12:01:20 UTC

In the process of building our #unschooling neighborhood in #Madeira and I’m #learningbydoing #lfg 😎🤟🏼🩷

2025-04-04 19:30:24 UTC

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1999 😎

2025-04-02 09:57:45 UTC

Don’t trust, verify!
We hired a mobile mechanic to help us figure out whether this Nissan pick up truck is a good buy for our land.
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2024-05-17 10:45:57 UTC

We recently bought a car, and I'm very pleased with it, especially since it's a 7-seater, allowing me to transport lots of friends. However, there is one thing that bothers me a bit...
It has an inbuilt 'annoying co-pilot' that tells me what to do, advises me to be careful, and even controls the steering wheel sometimes!!!
Can you imagine?! 😲
When I get 'too close' to a car in front, a big red circle flashes up on the display saying BREAK!
The first few times I saw it, it distracted me quite a lot.
When I don't hold the steering wheel stable at all times, a little orange sign pops up, reminding me to drive in a straight line.
And when I was on the motorway and a second lane opened up to the right, which I wanted to take, the car blocked the steering wheel slightly to let me know I shouldn't leave my route.
From then on, I was very wary of how I was driving, whether any light or sign would appear to warn me, and I was getting nervous about making the car—Silver, we called her Silver—not like my driving.
Crazy, huh?! 😕
For a while, Silver was actually making me doubt my decisions, my way of driving perfectly fine (My dad taught me how to drive at the age of 12, and I have driven in Germany, Mexico, Spain, the UK, and Portugal). I was second-guessing myself until I became aware of the crazy situation:
The car is like an adult telling a child what to do, advising them to be careful, and interfering physically with the kid's actions when they think they might be in danger, even though the child is in tune with their instincts, being aware of the risks and dangers around, and making sound decisions.
A complete no-go at APTB! 😈
Having distracting signs popping up made me nervous and not focused on the road for seconds, which could have made it more likely for me to create an accident!
The same applies to adults telling kids 'be careful,' 'danger,' 'stop,' 'you're about to fall,' 'let me take over,' 'you don't know,' etc. Too much of this and not letting the child set their boundaries will lead to the kid second-guessing their decisions. Studies show that this leds more more accidents!
I've gotten used to all the flashes and signs warning me, and I can ignore them, but maybe I will ask Alex to deactivate these settings 😉
Yeah, I'll get rid of this authority that thinks it knows best because I know better... because I'm part of the real world 😏
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2024-04-26 19:34:59 UTC

I ripped my diplomas to pieces 💥💥💥
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2024-03-23 23:06:49 UTC

We had our first Bitcoin walk today. It was awesome to walk and talk, talk Bitcoin and shit but never shitcoins 😁 https://files.sovbit.host/media/bbb722a99aa8f6f1cbc35f46bc607ebfda19f363d81426a8f449da4d71f2b4cd/6af9d65376350a8f7c6b63e26d560b2bf454818aa96c4757667c5ec193501d63.webp

2023-06-19 07:04:55 UTC

On my desktop as a reminder https://void.cat/d/JJ36p9vUHGmo9z7PZ3Dk1e.webp

2023-06-17 12:31:03 UTC

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2023-06-17 12:30:26 UTC

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hey Jonathan would you be interested in sharing your experiencing of unschooling on the pod? 🙏🏻

2023-06-17 12:28:29 UTC

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Thanks Pablo ❤️

2023-06-17 12:27:50 UTC

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