Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: One more good reason for those who do NOT live in cohousing to know their neighbors better.

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

It seems unlikely that kidnappers and other deviants looking for anonymity 
would choose to live in cohousing.  But your comment implies an interesting 
question:

Yes, it's really true that in cohousing we get to know our fellow members 
pretty well; that's why we moved in.  But ... do we think that cohousing 
members have better knowledge of, and relations with, the regular folk living 
up and down the street in conventional housing, than these regular folk 
typically have with each other?  In other words, are cohousing residents more 
neighborly beyond their property boundary than the regular folk populating the 
rest of the neighborhood?  Any evidence Yea or Nay?

R Philip Dowds
Cornerstone Cohousing
Cambridge, MA

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On May 7, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Joani Blank <jeblank [at] swansway.com> wrote:

> 
> Charles_____who initiated the rescue of the kidnapped 
> women in Cleveland, says in this interview, "I know 
> something is wrong when a little bitty white girl runs 
> into a black man's arms!"
> 
> http://www.upworthy.com/must-watch-3-young-women-missing-for-10-years-and-locked-in-house-freed-by-awesome-good-samaritan-2?c=upw1
>  
> 
> 
> Also, I can't help but think that this kind of horror 
> (plus more 'ordinary' incidences of sexual and domestic 
> violence) would be nipped in the bud more frequently if 
> people everywhere knew their neighbors even a little 
> bit better---which is why I'm posting this on the 
> cohousing listserve.
> 
> -- 
> /_______________________
> Most people don't know there are angels whose only job 
> is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall 
> asleep & miss your life./
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