Cohousing-L Mailing List: Magic Elves

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

The Moreno Valley article is great, but part of it reminded me of my 
utopian first visions.
> Residents share
>meals...
>
>"You just show up, wash your plate when you're done, and it's
>over," ...

I remember first reading about cohousing and it sounded like magic elves 
did all the work. Gee, you just show up and dinner is on the table, other 
people watch your kids for you, the landscape is dripping with fruits and 
nuts and vegetables. Right! 

I love community and thrive on it - but hasten to advise potential 
joiners that it's also a bunch of work. Gotta decide the system by which 
you wash that plate, buy the soap, mop up the drips, take  your turn at 
cooking, shopping, cleaning, organizing, budgeting. In return, we get a 
lot of social support and amenities. But let me know if anyone has found 
those elves. 

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