Would you actually join something like the Andromeda Initiative if it was real?

Would I join a project to go colonize another galaxy? In a heartbeat, that'd be amazing! Would I join a project run by people too stupid to put guns on their ships or make plans for pretty much any sort of emergency? No.

Maybe but I would love the chance to. I would need a lot of questions answered first.

Only if I were in charge would I consider going. The AI's planning and day-to-day were not up to par.

Well I assume it would be run by the original members and Jien Garson. So just ignore that plotline and their deaths

I rather enjoy being in the ass end of no where in the Milky Way galaxy.

With all the information we have about the AI and how it was pitched to people at the time, hell no. It sounds crazy and like everyone who went there went for the wrong reasons. I mean, when you think about it, a bunch of people who didn't like their life and a few who wanted an adventure signed up to go across the universe to another galaxy knowing it would take 600 years so they could try to find a way to like their life in another place far far away. It's literally the largest grass is greener over there so I'm going over there hop that there ever was. And clearly none of these folks realize that even if the planets were all viable (which in 600 years other species could have settles and did) they are going to have to start from scratch. Life will be hard because they won't have access to trade hubs already established, an economy already established. This isn't just settling on a new planet within milky way where within the milky way you have Relays. Oh and that brings me to another thought.

The whole idea behind ME was that the mass relays made travel quick and easy for all. But here we do not have that quick easy travel. So how are we traveling around as fast as we are from system to system? Are we still using mass effect drives that make relays irrelevant? If that is the case then wouldn't the destruction of the mass effect relays in ME3 be wholly irrelevant? Or was it that the Normandy was the only one with an FTL? Do these shuttle have FTLs? I hadn't really given this any thought before.

Really, the only way this whole trek would have made sense is if they were all people who took Shepard's warnings seriously. There is that two year gap between ME1 and ME2 where lots of shit could have gone down. 

Not using the Reapers as a solid reason why the AI exists feels like it just makes this more of an absurd adventure. We are not talking about a few thousand people. It's like 100k. Was it not plausible that in a galaxy of probably tens of billions (earth has six billion after that we've still got turians, asari, and salarian coming in with pretty high numbers as well before we add in the other races which are less represented and appear to have smaller numbers based on the rarity of seeing them within the game).  I don't think finding enough people who believed in it along with just deciding to go for the reasons already stated within the game would have been difficult. 

During the time frame after the game the theory of moving people to another galaxy did come up as a way to save the races from extinction. I remember reading posts and people saying that that hoped that the Alliance or some other group actually was doing this. I think it would have been great if we learned that Hackett and leaders from STG, Turian Military and Asari got together and decided this needed to be done and then secured the help of a benefactor. It would have been great if they made each race's hyperion have military on board. As of now we know there are some military on board but were they actually in alliance at some point? We know nothing about that. 

tl;dr : I will always think that having this AI take place at the same time and not having it even remotely connected to the Reapers with some top people in the military of other races involved in this is dropping the ball. For me, I think it would make more sense and it would be a nod to the original series as well as the realization that while it looked like Shepard's warnings were being dismissed, there were high ranking people who decided the council was wrong to dismiss it and they planned for the worst. Then we might have had a better group of people joining and we would have had a more logical reason to go. 

Anything to get off this planet, where lack of intelligent life is growing more and more each day.

It might be more about your philosophy on life then I guess. What's the point in staying in the boring old MilkyWay when you can take a chance into the unknown? Yes, there might be some danger, but I think the danger and the risk of dying is worth it to see a new place. Who wants to live a boring old life anyway when there is a chance you could become something better(or worse possibly). That's the gamble I would be willing to take.

Hmm... Well lets see...

1. I don't get to wake up until I'm actually deemed useful - Sounds great!!

2. If something happens - like say some idiot crashes the ship and my cryo pod gets damaged I could go into a coma - AWESOME!!!

3. If the pathfinder can't find a planet we all die - Oh boy!!!

4. If pirates attack we could probably die since because we don't have ship weapons they'd just send boarding parties and bleed us slow - All right!!!!

5. We could find a planet and contact the....

No wait we can't contact Earth... So how do we tell them we found the.... Oh wait we could totally go back.... which would take another 600 ye..... oh wait the ark is busted so we can't.... uhh.... I should go....

Indeed. Bartender in space I could live with that.

There has always been a side of me that wanted to break away from the familiar.

I would go just for that reason alone, despite knowing that a there would be a ton of hard work for pioneers.

I expect that day will happen before I turn 50.