Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing exclusiveness

[Jim Nordgaard (jimn]

Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> Jim, why do you not consider the list you gave:
> 
>         1) an interest in living in cohousing
>         2) financially able to participate
>         3) perseverance
>         4) determination
> 
> to be a fairly narrow "net" ?


There is a distinction between diversity and representative of a
population.  Obviously, no cohousing community is representative of the
American population, and I wouldn't say the community I'm in, at least,
is completely diverse (we have no Republicans that I aware of).  I was
responding to the questioner who seemed to have the idea of cohousing
communities being like those formed around a religion, ideology, or
specific lifestyle, where many do turn appear to turn "clannish".

I also did not say specifically that suburban neighborhoods explicitly
exclude those outside their preferred criteria, merely that the end up
being probably less diversified than Cohousing communities, especially
with respect to children's experience, which was what the question was
based on.

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