Cohousing-L Mailing List: Communities of Communities

[Mmariner (Mmariner]

I know there are  various regional assns. of cohousing and other communities
which get to gether socially, share info, etc.

But do any of you "moved-in" folks have a vision that includes fostering the
birth/growth of other communities adjacent to or nearby yours?  I
prognosticate that not only would the people in those "satellite" communities
benefit within their own circle, but a group of communities could be more
sustainable because you'd have a better mix of professions, and more chance
for synchronicity and serendipity to happen.

Some Boulder friends and I envision a community that had an urban site and a
rural site.  People would buy into one or the other, but could trade or
migrate to the other as economics or pleasure or ____ indicated.  If the
rural site ran a "Community Supported Agriculture" operation, it would have a
built-in market for farm products.  And, when somebody on the farm needed to
ply their city-oriented job skills, they could visit/migrate to the urban
site.

Nifty, eh?

I think we had a thread like this awhile ago, but there are new people, new
lurkers and maybe new branches to the old tree.

But, this is also a test to see if Cohousing-L is up and running - not much
stuff hitting me mailbox this week.  Either everybody's on vacation or the
server's down:


Haaaalllllooooooooooooooooooo, anybody home?

Michael M