Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Stewing over Rob and Stu

[Rob Sandelin (robsan]

Well Russ, What you describe below:

>I know few people who covet close personal relationships more than I, but
>thrice-weekly get togethers with a few good friends, frequent dinner parties,
>a front porch from which to hail neighbors (when I WANT to) and friendly
>encounters at a nearby park are plenty of community for me.  Otherwise, the
>privacy of my detached family dwelling provides my freedom of both time and
>space.

is Cohousing.  There are folks at Sharingwood who come to the parties, 
don't particpate in dinner and only make occaisional meetings when 
there is something on the agenda that they are interested in.  Other 
wise I see them less than some of my relatives.  This is the most 
private side of Cohousing, and at Sharingwood, that works fine.  Other 
communities have different levels of expectations I suppose, but I have 
heard of some very private folks at both Winslow and Nyland so I would 
suspect that there is lots of opportunity for privacy once you have the 
site built and running which takes a couple years.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood.