Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: nice article from Portland Monthly / Sunlight coho / Directory

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

It is a beautiful article with great photos, and in one of those funny small 
world articles, unbeknownst to me, my uncle lived there until he died last 
year. He wasn’t one of the original members, but was there for many years, and 
his wife who still lives there found the community very supportive during his 
Uncle Bob’s decline. I only visited there a few years ago, and Sunlight 
definitely looks like cohousing to me.  Although, I expect that the growth of 
cohousing, and many articles about the concept in recent decades has helped the 
community retain it’s  sense of community and made it easier to attract new 
families that appreciate what it has to offer. 

To Brian’s question, I don’t think there is any cohousing neighborhood the 
makes meal sharing mandatory, and I expect you’d actually find way more 
similarities in pet policies that differences. I think the difference tend to 
be more around how much effort communities put into keeping a strong meal 
program going (encouraging emails and ongoing discussion about how to refine it 
so it works for people), than specific policies. 

Katie 
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CoHousing Solutions

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On 10/31/16, 11:12 AM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of Brian Bartholomew via 
Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] 
cohousing.org on behalf of cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:


> "We imagined that we could pool resources, that maybe we didn't need
> 15 lawnmowers. But we didn't want too many rules." Dixon still
> recalls one founder's spontaneous manifesto with a chuckle: "I don't
> want to live anywhere where I have to ask to fart -- this is
> supposed to be *fun*."

I think there are more IC cultural divisions than just income sharing or
not.  Has anyone sorted cohousings by elaborateness of pet policy and
mandatoryness of meal sharing?

What community has the pet policy that, when your dog trees a possum
in the orchard at 3am, you go deal with it?  A car policy about who
keeps track of the oil in the tractor?

Brian
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