Cohousing-L Mailing List: How to start and try cohousing for a young Peruvian family?

[Melanie Mindlin (sassetta]

Hi Alexis,
Maybe you should consider Portland, Oregon.  There are several cohousing 
communities there, it's quite inexpensive, lots of good city stuff and 
relatively safe from a disaster point of view. It's a bit of a long flight to 
New York, but there's a good airport hub with lots of flights. Last I heard 
there are cohousing communities with homes available in Portland.
Boosting for Oregon,
Melanie

On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:16 AM, cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:34:26 -0500
> From: Alexis Bellido <alexis [at] ventanazul.com>
> Subject: [C-L]_ How to start and try cohousing for a young Peruvian
>       family?
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> Hi Katie,
> 
> Nice meeting you and thanks for the information.
> 
> DC sounds interesting and I'll start googling around to learn more.
> 
> But I'm open to moving farther away from NYC if necessary as I know the
> Northeast has a higher cost of living and being able to work remotely I
> don't really need to be that close.
> 
> I'm wondering, what other places in the US could be interesting to explore
> from the cohousing point of view based on the priorities listed in my
> original message? I wouldn't want to be too far away from civlization or a
> big city as I'll need to fly and have access to other services (good
> hospitals and public schools being the most important).
> 
> I know there are many nice places in the US but it seems there's always
> some kind of natural disaster happening somewhere: tornadoes, hurricanes,
> fire, snow, etc. Or maybe I'm just being paranoid. I know no place is
> guaranteed to be safe all the time; the NJ/NY area seemed to be relatively
> safe until Irene and then Sandy happened.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Alexis Bellido