Cohousing-L Mailing List: Opportunity to live in an already established Cohousing Community!

[Ken Pizzini (ken]

        We've lived in Winslow Cohousing on Bainbridge Island,
Washington since April, 1992 and we love it!  We know all of our
neighbors, we eat five meals a week in the common house, we share 2 1/2
acres of common outdoor space.  We have easy social interactions for
ourselves and our child without having to make plans weeks in advance.
Our child has much more freedom than in a single family neighborhood and
we feel safe letting her wander on our property with her friends, even
though she's only 3 years old.  She can almost always find a friend to
play with and has access to the whole common house as well as our
private houses.

        We get a lot of appreciation for the work we do in the community
and feel like we really help make this a wonderful place to live.
Living here saves us a lot of time normally spent planning, shopping,
cooking, and cleaning up dinners, as well as chauffeuring our child
around.  We find is is also cheaper to eat at the common house, and
enjoy the easy social interactions there.

        There is a lot of emotional support for the ups and downs we all
experience.  It's also been enlightening to have such a close view of
others relationships and parenting over a period of years.  I'm able to
get emotional support from a wide variety of adults which takes some
strain off a marriage and has helped me appreciate my husband's
endearing qualities more.

        We're choosing to down-size from a 4 bedroom duplex to a 2
bedroom flat and so need to sell our home.  Our house faces south on the
"Northeast Knoll" pathway.  The first floor has a small bedroom/office,
a 3/4 bath (no tub), and an open plan kitchen/dining/living room.
We've added a deck and hot tub to our private backyard.  The second
floor has three bedrooms with large closets, and full bathroom, and a
closet plumbed for a stacked washer/dryer, though we use it as a linen
and storage closet and do our wash in the common house.

        If you'd like more information you can get a basic information
pack for $3.00 from Winslow Cohousing, 353 Wallace Way NE, Bainbridge
Island, WA 98110 or Call Holly Garrett at (206) 780-5623 or send E-mail
to ken [at] halcyon.com .