Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cohousing exclusiveness

[katie allison granju (katie]

As some of you know, I am a writer working on a story about cohousing.
One thing I have been wondering is whether specifically choosing one's
neighbors because you share their worldview/lifestyle, etc actually
makes for a pretty closed-minded community. Do you think that it's
important for children to learn to live side by side with people with
whom they have very little in common? Is clannishness a necessary
byproduct of "intentional" communities? After all, the segregated
neighborhoods of decades past were certainly intentional on the part of
their inhabitants.

Just stirring the pot and trying to learn....

Katie