Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Is cohousing a consumer product?

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

Wonderful thread on the ability/inability to find a place in cohousing. It 
brings to mind two experiences and one conclusion:

1. When I went to my first cohousing conference I was surprised at how many 
people were there not to learn how to form a community but how to find one. I 
was only meeting people who were shopping. And they were shopping far and wide.

2. When I much later tried to build a forum for people who were committed to 
and needed a cohousing community in which the units cost $100,000 or less, it 
didn’t work. The major reason was that no cluster of people formed that wanted 
to work on forming a specific community in a specific place. No commitment to a 
solution specific enough to materialize it.

Cohousing communities are created; they aren’t found. 

Your perfect community can’t exist until you are in it.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC

We don’t agonize, we organize. — Nancy Pelosi