Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: extended families

[Lizette Mill (lizette]

Albert at SmallCo wrote:

>I imagine many readers responding that they don't get along with their
>family, and that cohousing allows them to "choose" new relations. I wish them
>well, but can't help wondering where this kind of choosing will lead. 

Actually, I get along great with my family.  I could even imagine having a very
workable, loving extended family composed of my relations, if only they all
lived where I do...  But since my parents and grandparents have retired to
Florida in an area that subsists chiefly on retirees and tourists, my brother
works for the only high-tech business in Panama City (the Navy-- _not_ where my
personal preferences would have me work), my sister has joined her husband's
extended family in Kansas, my other relations are scattered throughout various
states and cities both here and in other countries, and my hi-tech job is in
Colorado working for a really good company, I'm looking for those kinds of
relationships within a close-knit community.  Besides, extended families can
get even more parochial and narrow-minded than cohousing communities ;-).
(It's just a joke, please!)

My bottom line:  cohousing has more flexibility than an extended family of
blood relations.

Lizette

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