"on a commune" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a person living on a commune, which is a small, self-sufficient community where people share resources and responsibilities. Example: "After quitting her corporate job, Sarah decided to live on a commune and pursue a more sustainable and communal lifestyle."
"I work on a commune," said one man.
Its origins date to the time when a chap named Alex Collins studied abroad and lived on a commune where many garments were communal property.
(She originally started taking some screen assignments mostly for the Writers Guild health insurance; her one idea for a cable series, about life on a commune in Bolinas, California, became a pilot script that never got made).
In 1970, her mother moved the family to the rural community of Marcola, Oregon, where they lived on a commune.
Mr. Boneberg, a hippie from Buffalo who briefly lived on a commune, served as executive director of Mobilization Against AIDS, one of the first such activist organizations, and became something of a political firebrand.
Hansen insists that the dealers will do nothing to jeopardise the survival of Christiania, but when I asked her what the dealers thought of attempts by some in the commune to reach a compromise with the government, she replied: 'It's better not to lay down before you get shot.' Britta Lillesoee looks like one might expect someone to look who has lived for three decades on a commune.
In the 1970s Polke moved to a commune on a farm outside Düsseldorf, where he got into some very serious drugs.
The town of Auvers-sur-Oise lies just northwest of Paris--a commune on the river, surrounded by wheat fields and woods.
Once he was back home, Collins planned a trilogy of novels led by a Christian socialist hero raised on just such a commune.
Actually, that seems a bit tricky, which may be why for every few jokes that hit in this story about a recession-battered New York couple finding themselves on a Georgia commune, one sputters and dies.
By Frances FitzGerald The New Yorker, September 29 , 1986P. 83 REPORTER AT LARGE about Rajneeshpuram, a commune on a ranch in Central Oregon led by the Indian guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
