Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Frustration in Forming Community

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

There is sometimes TOO much planning, etc involved in getting started. Might 
be easier to find a big house to rent, then invite people to cohabitat with 
as a starting place. In this way you will have direct experience with 
community life to work from, and also will filter in and filter out people 
who you align with.  The whole, lets all expend huge risk, buy land and 
build houses approach, only works for a very small number of people.  Once 
you have a solid core of COMMITTED people living in the house, then you can 
realistically move on to bigger things. I put the word committed in caps 
because in my experience the vast majority of so called community seekers 
actually have little real committment to making life changes to living 
collaboratively, and thus they come and go, talk and talk but never actually 
commit to doing anything about their talk.

Start simple, learn as you go, keep a larger vision ongoing.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood