Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: singles in cohousing

[Yusuf Pisan (yusuf.pisan]

While demographics for each community is different, a large number of
cohousing communties suffer from the "too many single old women"
problem. The reasons vary: Cohousing provides a very supportive place
for single parents, which tend to be single women more than single
men. In general, women's initial reaction to cohousing is much more
open and accepting while men take some time to warm up to the idea.
Women tend to outlive men. Men tend to re-marry more than women.
Cohousing attracts a bit more of the "alternative types", people who
want to slow their lives, work from home, live in a more sustainable
way in a community which makes it hard for "wear a suit, work 80
hours" type "typical" men to make the transition to cohousing compared
to "homemaker" type women.

These are all generalizations and tendencies, but they start adding up
and you end up with more single women in cohousing. Still, this is
just a trend, you can still find a cohousing with lot of single men if
you keep looking :-)


Yusuf

On Feb 7, 2008 2:17 AM, Jane L <jmvll [at] verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I just went to my first meeting of a cohousing group on Saturday; I was 
> favorably impressed by much, but could not help but notice that there were a 
> number of what appeared to be single women in the group, and no single men. I 
> am really interested in cohousing but not sure that kind of gender inbalance 
> would fit for me. I am interested in ideas for helping singles interested in 
> cohousing to find each other.
>
>   Jane
>   New Jersey
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> 1. Re: Singles in Cohousing (Martha)
> From: Martha <wordbiz [at] spiritone.com>
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:26:38 -0800
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Singles in Cohousing
>
> I wish I'd been on the call this week. I think it's interesting that
> there are so many single women in cohousing and fewer single men and
> would be interested to know what single men have to say about being
> outnumbered. It's occurred to me that the Cohousing online magazine
> could consider running personal ads in Marketplace.
>
> Martha Wagner
> Daybreak Cohousing
> Portland, Oregon
>
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:53 PM, cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org wrote:
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> > Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:02:52 -0800
> > From: "carrol crawford"
> > Subject: [C-L]_ Conference Call Summary
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> > Hi Everyone, We had another great call last night. People from all
> > over the
> > Nation. Some were able to ask questions of each other, but the
> > funny thing
> > was we all ended up talking about being single in co-housing.
> > Interesting.
> > We were wondering if there is anyplace for single people in co-
> > housing to
> > find other singles in co-housing. Lets find out. Join us next
> > week and
> > lets help this group grow. ( even if your not single- ha!).
> >
>
>
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