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live near neighbors to promote community and share land and other amenities. However, in my experience one doesn’t need to be an extrovert to live in cohousing. In fact, the majority of cohousers are slightly introverted - they enjoy the company of others but they also like their private spaces and being alone sometimes. Cohousing permits this by both having common spaces, friendly narrow pedestrian streets and wide front porches, but also private homes with private backyards.
I think there is a basic human need for “community”, which is an entirely different thing than “family,” “friends” or “country” - but just as important. Cohousing provides thief, most human need for communij ty absent in modem suburbia but present in the tribes, small towns and city blocks people have lived in for ages.
Editor’s Note: Peter Lazar lives with his wife and two small children at Shadowlake 'Village Cohousing in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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