RE: Age Diversity in Groups | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rob Sandelin (floriferousmsn.com) | |
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 07:14:59 -0600 (MDT) |
Groups change over time. Don't place too much stock in the current membership as many groups find people dropping out and new people joining often even weeks before final unit closings. So what you see now in a forming group is not anything like what it may be later. Also if you are a group looking for more families with kids, build your playset first. This will attract kids to play on it, which will attract families. At Sharingwood when I joined, a big concern of ours was that there was no one under the age of 50. Now, the place is hopping with kids. We built a big playset years before we had a commonhouse and that attracted tons of families to us. (of course having child care paid for by the group at meetings helped to show our kid friendliness as well. Rob Sandelin Sharingwood Community Resident On the road, Pensacoloa, Florida, where the beaches are as nice as the travel brochures advertise. -----Original Message----- From: cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org [mailto:cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org]On Behalf Of Jasmine Gold Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 8:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Age Diversity in Groups We've visited several groups in the past six months that are either in the building or feasability stage. I've noticed that the groups tend to consist of mostly older people (middle-aged and retired with grown children) or mostly younger people (30's and 40's with lots of children). These are groups that have approximately 1/2 to 2/3 of their planned households (around 10-20 households in the groups). I'm interested in hearing whether other groups have or have had this problem? What was done or is being done to overcome it? This is very important to me right now because we are thinking about moving. The group we are most interested in has practically no families with children and I want to be part of a group with lots of children. We have a four year old only child. Thanks, Jasmine Gold, currently most active in Peninsula Region Cohousing
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Age Diversity in Groups Jasmine Gold, May 5 2000
- Age Diversity in Groups Lynn Nadeau, May 5 2000
- Re: Age Diversity in Groups RowenaHC, May 6 2000
- Re: Age Diversity in Groups Fred H. Olson, May 6 2000
- RE: Age Diversity in Groups Rob Sandelin, May 11 2000
- Re: Age Diversity in Groups Ginny Moreland, May 11 2000
- Re: Age Diversity in Groups Diane Simpson, May 12 2000
- Re: Age Diversity in Groups Howard Landman, May 15 2000
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