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Category Archives: moving in and out of cohousing
Questions for potential members
Questions for a potential member You can’t really screen or stop people from buying or renting a house in cohousing due to fair housing laws (which are necessary) but if you could ask a few things and get to know … Continue reading
Dream Homes Dissolve
I was talking to a woman last night and I felt her pain. She had the dream life, the dream house, the dream marriage. In months it all dissolved. Unfortunately, right as the quarantine began so she moved to a … Continue reading
Wild Child Book Review
Wild child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture is an anthology of memoirs by women who grew up in the 60s and 70s with hippie parents. Some lived in communes, others traveled the country, but they all have a story to tell. … Continue reading
Divorce Divides
Divorce is never fun. Many neighborhoods have seen half or the whole household move away due to divorce. I’m in shock and sad to find out the couple I have come to know very well this year is splitting up. … Continue reading
cohousing scam
I’ve been scammed. I re-read the book – the book that started the whole cohousing movement in the USA. Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett wrote Creating Cohousing: building sustainable communities and I have the updated version. They found cohousing in … Continue reading
small town knows all – all your faults and foibles
It finally happened. I’ve been living in small towns and my kids have been growing up there. A teacher I”m co-teaching a class with me figured out she taught my son a few years ago. It’s not the biggest deal … Continue reading
Lesbian Drama
I have heard of lesbian drama but I haven’t experienced it much.I had great experiences in lesbian women groups in my 20s. I thought living in cohousing would be similar to that sense of community. Now I see that was … Continue reading
Gambling on cohousing
When you buy a house in cohousing, you are taking a roll of the dice. Like any housing, the prices could go up or down. You also are gambling that this community will be the cohousing you dreamed of. Of … Continue reading
Erika Jayne, divorce and cohousing
Cohousing is like marriage. And getting out is like divorce. I have admitted that my guilty pleasure is the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. I swore to give it up but then I realized I lived it. The women frequently … Continue reading
You will choose the Wrong cohousing community
Cohousing is a lot like marriage. A long time commitment to a relationship. This article on marriage can also be said of cohousing. With that said, sometimes it just isn’t going to work out – job change, family changes, life … Continue reading
