Actually a collectivized English country estate sounds like it could be a very pleasant place to live, basically some people choose to do the farming and live in the cottages (that have been renovated to be super charming and nice) some people live in the big house and they do all the domestic labor and cooking for the people who do the farming, including like laundry, cleaning, clothes mending and maybe even clothes making and so on and like you can switch out if you don’t like the role you’re doing. Ladies maids could be like inhouse beauticians and governesses could mind the collectively cared for children in the nursery while the parents worked… seems sort of idyllic. You could also have your doctor and dentist and vet there, your tailor, your mechanic, a hub for public transport to places outside of the village and like you could put your library there, and like a woodworking workshop and like a place for big expensive tools you don’t need all the time (like lathes and table saws and belt sanders) because they have a ton of room, so basically it’s like a service hub at the center of a big circle and you could have your social functions (dances, weddings, town meetings etc) there, and it would also probably be your designated place to go in case of natural disaster, and you could also store things like a snowplow and backhoe and things for common use there, also maybe your local school depending on the size of things and the outbuildings and you’d go there for meals.

Also you could have a tailor there because getting things tailored is nice. It’d also be nice because you’d always have access to the stuff that you like need sometimes but not all the time (like floor waxers, and carpet steamers and weird special cake pans and other special pastry equipment, and stud finders and sewing machines, and like fancy audio equipment for recording whatever, and nice cameras and double boilers because they’d be shared in common and you could have enough that you were never like “awww someone took the last good camera” (also you’d probably get some of that stuff for people who needed it often) and you could have a giant store of board games and it’d be easy to find people to play with.  Everyone would get fresh fluffy towels delivered like in a hotel… like it wouldn’t be the thing for everyone but for people who like that sort of thing it’d be lovely, and you’d be able to keep horses and things for people who like different sorts of sports and probably have like fancy spa equipment and a collective gym… basically it’d be like ALL THE AMENITIES which’d be cool.

Imagine the giant awesome playground you could have for the kids, and like the super cool treehouse/s you could have for them to hang out in and like a giant shared dollhouse and things like that for the nursery playroom, and the like gigantic blowout birthday/Halloween/other holiday parties you could have because there’s this giant fancy house available, and a bunch of specialist cooks so you could have awesome food and people’d pitch in to decorate (also like onsite petting zoo basically lol) Fuck you’d probably have room in one of the out buildings to store a bouncy house if needed)