Cohousing-L Mailing List: cohousing's correlations: southern california vs northern california

[Hans Tilstra (tilstra]

I would hypothesise that there are cultural differences between northern and
southern California.

A broad sweeping question about the differences between northern and
southern California invites a matching broad hypothesis to match.

A hypothesis about factors indicating a statistical probability, using a
psychometric approach commonly used in marketing. Geert Hofstede who is
another lead of an academic in presenting cultural differences in this kind
of "correlates with" thinking.

In Europe, cohousing is culturally more Denmark than Poland. Here in
Australia it's more likely to fit the multi-cultural inner suburb near
Melbourne University and less likely to be adopted in blue collar outer
suburbia.

Perhaps people living next to a third world country have a more economically
oriented, more survival-oriented mindset (ie. thinking of Maslow's hierarchy
of needs), than people who live in a more optimistic environment such as
northern California. I've never been to either Florida or San Diego, but can
you imagine cohousing to take of on a military base or Cuban exile
community? What makes coastal Washington State culturally so different from
Spokane, what distinguishes Austin from Dallas, Davis from San Diego? I
think it's a momentum generated through a clustering of enough people with a
similar mindset (eg. similar to Porter's study of clusters creating
competitive advantage). Perhaps cohousing as an expression of innovation
correlates with accommodating homosexuality, without feeling a need to be
defensive or feeling compromised. This discussion format has confirmed that
cohousing correlates correlates with a political leaning to the left, but
not to a dogmatic extent.


Hans
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~cohouse

"the level of thinking that gets us into a mess, is unlikely to get us out
of it"
from Tina Konstant & Morris Taylor's (2002) "Mental Space - How to Find
Clarity in a Complex Life"


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