Your sarcasm ignores one very important point.
Barnet and Stevenage both have what we would like. An exceptionally rich chairman, who has to spend a lot of money on something or lose the money elsewhere. Hence the whole community angle of it all..
I could be very wrong. But Barnet has a very Rushden & Diamonds feel about it all.
True that Stevenage has a wealth owner (so does NTFC) but the new stands have been crowdfunded.