Cohousing started in Scandinavia-- I think 20-30% of folks from Denmark live in cohousing neighborhoods. It's an intentional community with no income-sharing.
Basically, it's a small neighborhood of folks who actually want to be neighborly. The houses are clustered and all pedestrian-oriented- - our houses face a walkway rather than the street. So folks can hang out on front porches, visit neighbors, kids can ride tricycles without fear of getting hit by a car. We also share some resources-- since our houses are clustered we were able to preserve 18 acres of woods and 7+ acres of prairie. We have a community house with a large kitchen & dining room, kids playroom, guest rooms, etc. Basically, I get to live next door to some of my best friends. It's very Norman Rockwell. http://www.cohousing.org/default.aspx Molly --- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Commune Molly! What a great moniker! (as Maxshenk would say)-- what > exactly is cohousing? I'm familiar with kibbutzes in Israel--is it > similar? > > > --- In [email protected], "mlscha" <mlscha@> wrote: > > > > Commune Molly here, coming out of the woodwork. > > > > Daria knows how to push my buttons, but I love her anyway. I do > > live in a cohousing neighborhood-- motto: it's not a commune! > > > > Daria, I was just thinking of you as another UU family we know from > > NoVa just visited and is dying to move here. It looks like they are > > going to come with or without a job. Brave souls. The nice thing > > about living in a small town is that there are tons of connections-- > > the guy had at least 5 personal contacts for jobs by the end of the > > weekend, and several interviews. > > > > And yeah, I was mildly annoyed by the RoVa stuff-- but my husband, > > born and bred in NoVa, thought it was hilarious. > > > > We can't be too rural-- we even have fresh sushi at our grocery > > store! We speculate that there are no more stores west of us that > > offer sushi for several hundred miles. > > > > Molly > > > > --- In [email protected], "Daria Akers" > > <daria.akers@> wrote: > > > > > > It looks like I called her that but I was calling the co- housing > > unit a > > > commune then adding an aside that Molly, another chatter who lives > > there is > > > going to kill me. I got caught up in the parens and such. > > > > > > On 11/2/06, Ellen <ellengoodman6@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Did you call her Commune-Molly? > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Daria Akers" > > > > <daria.akers@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I am dreaming of moving to a co-housing development (commune - > > > > Molly, > > > > > another chatter who lives there, is going to kill me now) in > > > > Blacksburg VA > > > > > (RoVA) but I haven't been able to find a job I could do down > > there. > > > > That is > > > > > part of the problem with RoVA. The other part is finding/ > > getting > > > > services > > > > > for my special needs daughter. > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weingartenchatters/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weingartenchatters/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
