Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Real estate and community related

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Nov 9, 2024, at 9:45 AM, Kate C via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] 
> cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> May I request that messages relating to specific communities mention where 
> they are? E.g. Portland, Maine (or Oregon!), Burlington, VT (or California).

I’m laughing because giving a geographic location seems like a no-brainer but 
very few people remember to do it. This is a decades-old problem.

I once went to a community's website to find out where they were and couldn’t 
even find the country — or the continent. The only thing I could find was that 
the mountain range pictured in the footer wasn’t familiar. Not that I’m an 
expert on mountain ranges, but I hadn’t seen that one in any photos. It was in 
Australia—I don’t remember how I figured it out. Although today, I could have 
put the mountain range in Google images and found a match.

The nice thing about people not remembering to way where they are is a sign of 
intimacy. It means that people feel so comfortable on Cohousing-L, they assume 
everyone knows them and their community, or at least knows of them and where 
they are. 

So it’s the result of a good feeling but can be really frustrating for everyone 
who has to either look up the location or ask for it.

The three most important things about real estate: location, location, 
location. The immediate reaction of “cohousing isn’t real estate” might help 
you remember that location is its one unchangeable, dominant characteristic. 

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