LEO vs GSO; colony-isolation tests (was The Maine Solution - Updated

> A little advice from one "nut" to another:
> If you continue to sound "nutty" [...] to potential
> financiers who do NOT already inhabit the wonderfully
> incestuous world of folks already sold on LEO colonization

Please excuse me for changing the subject to one that might already
have been discussed in this group, but are there reasons -- besides
launch or orbit-transfer energy -- for preferring LEO to
geostationary, or higher, orbit? The solution I have come to,
lately, for a successful orbiting colony is a large,
high-population, economically-diverse one -- e.g. a major city. The
density would be high, and therefore the heat-rejection needs would
be high. Putting such a city in LEO would be putting it right next
to a hot planet that reflects a lot of solar power on its day side,
simultaneous with solar power raining down upon the other side of
the city. GSO would have better views of the 3-4 degree-Kelvin
cosmic background.

Besides better-catering to thermal-power-rejection needs, a
geostationary orbit would require less power for orbit
maintenance, could come in handy for Earth communications
services (since geostationary satellites seem to already be
popular), would provide more-consistent service for
teleworkers and tele-service-providers (up-link as well as
down-link), would be closer to mineral resources mined from Luna
and asteroids, and would be above the ever-growing swarm of LEO
non-standard-orbit space junk. Three such geostationary cities,
120 degrees apart, could cover the globe with data services,
and also patch through communications from each other.

> and its planet side precursors [...]
> Word to the wise: THINK SMALL, at least to start with. It
> really doesn't require heavy-hitter investors to jump-start a
> modest live/learn/work Intentional Community embedded in an
> existing urban areas. The urban option neatly sidesteps the
> elephant-in-the-living-room "but where will our Citizens find
> work?" quandary that plagues geographically isolated
> start-ups!

At some point, the planet-side precursors should indeed be
geographically (and data-wise {as model-appropriate latencies
and bandwidth-limits}, power-wise, and transportationally)
isolated -- to prove themselves economically viable in moot
tests of the actual isolations expected in the orbital stages.