Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "they don't get it"

[Hungerford, David (dghungerford]

Lee Haring wrote:
>Speaking for myself alone, I'd say that there's something fundamentally 
>misconceived about households in cohousing having their own laundry 
>machines. They don 't get it.

Could it be that people can "get it" but have different needs, be at 
different stages of life, or have different priorities than Lee Haring?

Seems to me that what there is to "get" about cohousing is the willingness 
and ability to listen to, empathize with, and accomodate the views and 
needs of people *even if you don't agree with them.*  If you can't do that, 
then you're not going to enhance community by simply running into them at the 
laundry room.

David Hungerford, Muir Commons