Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Any connections with Swedish Cohousing?

[Pare Gerou (paregerou]

Hi Jennie,

I will forward you the contact information for two people at
Kollectivhus NU.  They also respond to their general info email as well.
You don't need to worry about the site being in Swedish,--on the upper
right hand side of the site, you can click on "English" and read it all in
English that way, or you likely know you can download google translate and
translate easily that way as well.  i might suggest simply reaching out to
one of the communities rather than going through the association.  The
communities also generally respond to email.

Your trip sounds really lovely.  Have you read the history of cohousing in
Sweden written in 2008 HERE
<http://www.kollektivhus.nu/pdf/colhisteng08.pdf>?


Safe Travels,
Pare Gerou
www.GreekVillageCohousing.com



On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 9:48 PM Mabel Liang <mabel [at] twomeeps.com> wrote:

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>
> I've forwarded this to one our residents who, while born in the US,
> lived in Sweden pretty much until he was 9.  His father continued to
> live there, so he has made trips back there.  I have no idea how his
> Swedish literacy is.
>
> -- Mabel :-)
>
>   mabel [at] twomeeps.com
>   Mabel Liang
>   Software Engineer turned Gardener
> Cornerstone Village Cohousing
> Cambridge, MA
>
> On 2023-03-02 23:28, Jennie Lindberg via Cohousing-L wrote:
>
> > I'm calling on the wisdom and resources of this group:Does anyone have
> > any connections with anyone in a Swedish Cohousing Community? My sister
> > and I will be in Sweden in July and at the end of the tour the two of
> > us would love to visit a cohousing community. The dates would be
> > 7/18-7/19/23. We would love the opportunity to stay in a guest room in
> > a Common House (which we would happily pay for), or at least meet
> > members of a cohousing community and learn about their community.I am
> > co-founder of a forming cohousing community, Sunnyside Village
> > Cohousing, north of Seattle Washington and am fascinated by how much I
> > can learn from communities all over the U.S. (the community tour at the
> > Madison conference last summer was so fun and enlightening!), and I'm
> > guessing the same is world wide.I have located the Swedish cohousing
> > communities on their Swedish Cohousing Association map, but alas, their
> > websites are in Swedish, so I'm not feeling very capable about
> > connecting.Grateful for any help you can give us.Jennie
> > LindbergSunnyside Village CohousingMarysville, WA
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