I would love a situation like that - a sharing community, no matter how it was perceived by others. I remember reading once in some of the "simple living" books I was devouring back several years ago, where sharing things in common was a practical approach rather than each household having: gardening equipment, lawn mowers, etc. so the housing of the equipment, maintaining and use would be shared. Maybe a central location for the housing I guess. Kind of like a library! Anyway, that makes a lot of sense to me. Living in community and cooperatively.