Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Population stats for villages

[Dahako (Dahako]

Hi again-

As a side note, I lived in Eno Commons Cohousing in Durham, NC, for about 4 
years (after living through a couple years of its development) and one of the 
interesting things to me about the size difference (22 households there versus 
56 here) is that, I think the lightening of the load per household more than 
offsets the complications of working through consensus with a larger group.  
Or, in economic terms, we seem to be realizing some economies of scale.  Or in 
colloquial terms, "many hands make light work."  (Although "light" is purely a 
relative term - I'm pretty sure cohousing never develops easily.)

There definitely has been some lessening of overall group interpersonal 
intensity during development.  I don't think that is entirely due to the larger 
size of the group. . .  Each household also got somewhat less say in its 
individual unit design, as opposed to overall building direction from the group 
as a 
whole.

Jessie Handforth Kome
Eastern Village Cohousing
Silver Spring, Maryland
"Where I'm trying to figure out where to put the grill.  And the bookcases.  
And wondering where the calendar got to.  Boxes and boxes."