Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re:"Unbase" CoHousing

[Joani Blank (jeblank]

I'm entirely with you, Dan! Problem for me is with the word "base"--it's so,
well, base. I think there's a lot of room for wonderful, challenging, and
lively diversity in the simplist, or most traditional, or most Danish-like,
even if it's made up of mainstream types (do we really mean "boring?"), who
would be living in middle class isolationist suburbs, but for the off chance
that they got a whiff of cohousing at just the right (read new-home-seeking)
time in their lives. Sure, we are likely to broaden the attractiveness of
cohousing to the largest numbers of people if we reach out to mainstreamers.
But this is not a reason think that specialty cohousing cannnot develop side
by side with the mainstream kind (and you didn't say that.) It's just that
it's  problematic when the only co-housing group available within 200 miles
of where I want to live specializes in people that are not-me. 

Joani Blank
Doyle St. CoHousing and Old Oakland CoHousing

p.s. One kind of diversity I hope that most communities ALWAYS maintain is
age diversity. Could it be cause I'm getting up in years, and because I
never want to live away from babies and toddlers?