It seems like he was impressed positively by the communally living folks in Munich, and probably elsewhere. It's what was happening and being looked at at the time. Some of the people north of San Francisco wanted to live outside of the personal possessions and the money system entirely, and there are still people all around on the west coast who engage in barter systems for as much as possible. A fair number of British folk musicians had been going that way, didn't Donovan buy a Scottish island, and even the Beatles were looking at some island in Greece? The music business can be very repellant too.
