Glad you're traveling around to check out where you want to live. It was the people (and the fact it was in the forest) that first attracted me to this area. It was a wonderful place to raise kids in, with the community helping each other to build and doing all different things with the kids. Wonderful if you have the luxury of scouting around to find the place you want to be.

The image I included in my post was from a PDF from a US government site on earth sheltered homes at: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/fy97/6993.pdf
There was some good info in there although it was a little bit older.