Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: consequences in community/work participation

[Racheli Gai (racheli]

But of course monetary standards ARE formal and rigid.  And seeing it 
as "emotional"
is in the eye of the beholder: I don't happen to think that formal and 
rigid is necessarily
bad, it depends what it applies to.
Since some expenses a cohousing community has are monetary, I don't see 
a way
out of requiring people to pay.  For example: last I knew, our electric 
company wasn't accepting
bartering  arrangements :)
So, some things in life are such that there is less room for 
flexibility, and other things
allow for more.  Just because we need to have people pay dues, doesn't 
in and of
itself entail that the same kind of arrangements need to happen in all 
other spheres.

R.




On Nov 30, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Sharon Villines wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Racheli Gai wrote:
>
> > formal/rigid standards.
>
> But why are monetary contributions never referred to as "forma/rigid"? 
> These are words filled with emotional connotations not applied to set 
> community condo fees, for example.
>
> Sharon
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