Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: problems at move-in time?

[Eris Weaver (erisw]

Jim Snyder-Grant talked about their community's move-in process, with
someone who already moved in helping coordinator volunteers to help others
about to move in. This brings up a question that I've been thinking about,
as my community approaches move-in in about eight months.

I've heard several community members who seem to assume that everybody will
help everybody else move.  I personally absolutely HATE moving and helping
other people move, although I have certainly done both many times. The idea
of not just moving myself but helping 29 other households to do so exhausts
me just to think about it. This time around, having fifteen years worth of
accumulated stuff AND actually having spare cash, I am planning to just hire
movers and be done with it. However, I worry that this may make me a magnet
for resentment from other folks if the expectation is that we all help each
other.

What kinds of stories do others have on the actual moving process?

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Eris Weaver                                erisw [at] sonic.net
SoCoHo
http://www.sonic.net/~erisw/socoho.html
Sonoma County, Northern California


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