Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community size

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

Trying to manage without resources -- too little labor AND too little capital 
(equipment and money), no way to substitute one for the other -- is always a 
challenge.  My point is that sometimes cohos create their own challenge by 
adhering to an unrealistic assessment of total resources required.

A different kind of challenge is that of sharing both responsibility and 
benefit of the commons: the common house, the common truck, the community 
garden, the common digital projector, for instance.  But learning how to share 
is a major point of living in cohousing; this is not a bug, it's a feature.

Philip Dowds

> On Sep 14, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I love it. Your whole message proves Ann's point. It isn't complex when you 
> have enough money to hire a manager and then hire all the work done. Money 
> always makes things simpler. Having someone else make decisions is also 
> simpler. But then you have to live with them. That's why conventional condos 
> are so offensively inoffensive in design.