Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Why I live in cohousing

[Ann Zabaldo (ann.zabaldo]

Eris--

Congrats!

Best to you and your S/O!

Many, many good wishes for a full and abundant MARRIAGE!!

Ann Z.

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Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
McLean, VA
Voice 703-663-3911
Fax 202-291-8594
www.cohousingcollaborative.com

2008/6/20 Eris Weaver <eris [at] erisweaver.info>:
>
>> I've been reading these posts with interest, and as someone who has lived
> in Tierra
>> Nueva for our full ten years, I'm wondering how any of these lovely
> neighborhood
>> stories are simply because you live in cohousing?  All of the comments
> I've read
>> could be made about a thriving neighborhood or town or extended family,
> where
>> folks talk to one another, help each other out and play together well.
> All of these
>> things are not exclusive to cohousing.
>>
>> I'd like to hear some thoughts about something unique to living
> specifically in
>> cohousing that couldn't be found in a lively neighborhood or extended
> family group.
>
> I don't doubt that these things happen in SOME lively neighborhoods
> SOMEwhere...I grew up in one (in LOS ANGELES, no less!) but have rarely
> lived in one in my adult life.  In my most recent neighborhood, in 15 years
> I got to know maybe TWO neighbors, superficially.  The only close-knit,
> know-everybody living experience I've had as an adult was in a very
> low-income trailer park.  (Hard not to know people when you can hear every
> sneeze, cough, toilet flush, etc.!) When I moved up economically, I missed
> it.  I came to cohousing in search of a way to live in non-sub-standard
> housing - like my condo - with the kind of interaction I had in my trailer
> park.
>
> Eris
>
> (who is getting MARRIED in our common house tonight, THANK YOU CALIFORNIA
> SUPREME COURT!!!)
>
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> Eris Weaver, Facilitator & Group Process Consultant
> FrogSong  (Cotati, CA)
> eris [at] erisweaver.info
> 707-338-8589
> http://www.erisweaver.info
>
>
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