Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 163, Issue 22 -Diversity Essays

[mr-personal (r3vm53]

Writing re diversity, Sharon V says, among other useful remarks,

"Financial barriers, I think, a lot of new communities have dealt with 
as well as could be expected. *_For a community like ours ? 17 years in 
and owners wanting/needing full price out of their homes in order to 
enter a retirement community or buy a house in another city, there 
aren't many options."_*

{emphasis added}

{This is a major concern, at least for me. I would want a move to 
cohousing to be my last move. But as written here, it is a move that 
lasts only until one becomes enfeebled. IOW, cohousing is not a panacea, 
it is just one of many residential options. It has a benefit/cost ratio 
greater than one to only a portion of the market, like all the others. 
It does not solve the problem of decrepitude in old age. Nor, perhaps, 
should it be expected to do this.}

--
Michael Rulison (older than 80 and apparently in good health this morning)
RALEIGH NC 2707-6723