Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Question about splitting a community

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Mar 25, 2018, at 2:08 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
wrote:

> Mental fatigue. The whole group will be discussing twice as many obstacles. 
> Having large group support sounds good but it means giving twice as much 
> support too.
> 
> One the other person is always unemployed or seriously underemployed or in 
> danger of being unemployed. 
> 
> With a community comes all the benefits, but you also share the woes. Sharing 
> the development woes of two groups at the same time might be too much.

I didn’t mean this to sound like the voice of doom. If one household is 
unemployed there are still 42 others who probably are not.

And forming a cohousing group isn’t impossible, obviously, but it requires the 
full focus of a group on tasks they usually have no experience with. To do it 
with two groups at a time, even if you regard them as one group, might be too 
complex.

Maybe have social events together; business meetings separately. And everyone 
welcome to attend all the meetings.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org