Why don't we live together?

[iris lilies]

Perhaps unfairly, I look askance at the "crunchy granola" stereotype that co-housers have.

it.

yes...you said it in a few words, I took paragraphs to say it.

people who like people are not my kind of people and I do not want to live with them!

[JaneV2.0]

yes...you said it in a few words, I took paragraphs to say it.

people who like people are not my kind of people and I do not want to live with them!

That's why I chose editing; if I were paid by the word, I'd starve to death.

[LDAHL]

Perhaps unfairly, I look askance at the "crunchy granola" stereotype that co-housers have.

In defense of suburbs, I've lived in two that were pretty walkable, though Bellevue is more likely classed an edge city. One of the many advantages they have is that one can be as private as one desires. You have to be intrepid to walk here (the town center is a mile or more away)--outside of "walking to nowhere," as my friend describes it.

I agree on both counts. I wouldn’t want any portion of my life determined by a committee of later day hippies seeking affiliation and status.

I also like a nice suburban neighborhood and have no problem with newer, plainer housing. I wouldn’t want to wear my grandfather’s clothes, and see no attraction to living in my grandfather’s house. But I’m just a philistine about stuff like that.

[Rogar]

I don't mind so much the crunchy granola stereotype as long as it doesn't get too touchy feely hippie dippy. Community drum ceremonies are probably a bad sign. I would mind the exclusion of the other diverse groups that make life interesting. Sort of the same reason I object to gated communities.

[iris lilies]

I don't mind so much the crunchy granola stereotype as long as it doesn't get too touchy feely hippie dippy. Community drum ceremonies are probably a bad sign. I would mind the exclusion of the other diverse groups that make life interesting. Sort of the same reason I object to gated communities.

We like to make fun of the planned community “New Town” out in the suburban hinterlands. They build faux Victorians. They actually used as their initial advertising image, and this is God’s Truth, a photo of my neighborhood to advertise their planned community before they actually had anything built.

My first view of New Town was a surreal experience. Here on the horizon were Victorian looking structures rising out of the Prairie. Wtf is that!

There it’s not cohousing of course. It is an attempt to build something walkable, a nice place without all of the inconveniences of urban living because well, they don’t have that urban population.

[iris lilies]

I don't mind so much the crunchy granola stereotype as long as it doesn't get too touchy feely hippie dippy. Community drum ceremonies are probably a bad sign. I would mind the exclusion of the other diverse groups that make life interesting. Sort of the same reason I object to gated communities.

I imagine crunchy granola people to welcome diversity. Of course it is only diversity that can afford to buy into that planned community at $482,000. Or whatever the high buyin fee is. That right there eliminates most undesirable elements of “diversity. “Unless they have section 8 residents. Ha ha Ha. Ha Hah Hah Hah Hah Hah Hah. Yeah, would like to see that happen.

[iris lilies]

I agree on both counts. I wouldn’t want any portion of my life determined by a committee of later day hippies seeking affiliation and status.

I also like a nice suburban neighborhood and have no problem with newer, plainer housing. I wouldn’t want to wear my grandfather’s clothes, and see no attraction to living in my grandfather’s house. But I’m just a philistine about stuff like that.

Be careful, if you live long enough your standard house well may become an object worth preservation fervor.

1960’s ranches are all the rage and I am watching the trend to see when 1970s splits take over as the coolest thing to preserve.

Me, I draw the line at 1970. I will not live in anything built after 1970. Unless in my fantasy it would be something that I have built and then it would have high ceilings and nice millwork and etc.

[Tybee]

IL, the planned community you describe sounds like Habersham in Beaufort--basically it's faux Charleston on a marsh.

https://habershamsc.com/

[razz]

Bae's idea would be good but I need an extensive walkable community, ready access to commercial suppliers of groceries, personal services, etc. There is something to the idea of one's tribe but I need diversity of ages, etc. The Villages in Florida seems to be a success for a large population but would that be considered co-housing? What makes it work?

[razz]

IL, the planned community you describe sounds like Habersham in Beaufort--basically it's faux Charleston on a marsh.

https://habershamsc.com/

That does sound like a lovely spot.