Is cohousing life easier or | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Laura Bagnall (Laura_Bagnallterc.edu) | |
Date: 10 Mar 1994 17:07:38 -0500 |
Reply to: Is cohousing life easier or harder? This is actually in response to a message that was sent several months ago. It was talking about the experience at Sharingwood in how much time different people put into tasks. The paragraph which caught my attention read as follows.. Rob Sandelin said -- "From my experience groups that demand "equal participation" tend to lose members who can't or won't put cohousing above their personal, family or job needs. This is an especially acute delemma with families with young children. It is almost impossible for someone who works full time, with two small children to attend hours and hours of meetings. It's also a pretty unreasonable expectation on parents, especially if high quality childcare is not happening. Through my work with the Puget Sound Cohousing Network I have heard four groups express regret at losing parents with small kids because the expectations and demands made of the members were more than the parents would endure." This part jumped out at me because I am a single parent with a four-year-old, and the main motivation for joining a co-housing community is to make my life easier, not harder! I understand that it is a lot of work to get the community going (we're very early in the process and don't even have a site yet), and I've certainly been doing my share of committee work. I of course know that I will need to do my share of work in the community. However, my hope is that taking advantage of economy of scale, that life will be easier in the community than it would be if I was living on my own, not harder. One of my main motivations is not to have to cook dinner every night, for example. What has been the experience of people in existing cohousing communities? Laura
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Is cohousing life easier or Laura Bagnall, March 10 1994
- RE: Is cohousing life easier or Rob Sandelin, March 11 1994
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