I kinda want a commune house. The next house I buy will probably be a split bedroom design so that I can ideally share with a single female friend.
I have a friend who formed a co-housing community with her friends that's pretty communal. They're all around retirement age but not ready for a retirement home. And they're all over yard work and cleaning gutters. So they designed and built (via contractor) an apartment building with a bunch of handicapped accessible one-bedroom apartments, each with a small kitchen and balcony. There's also a larger communal kitchen, several bed/bath spaces that they can reserve for visitors, gaming and hang-out areas, etc. It's near a bus hub and in a walkable part of town, as well as near a hospital. It's all very deliberate and well considered. I wouldn't mind doing something like that.
Yeah, that sounds like a dream to me!
Adult dorm, man. That is what I want.
I hung out with my cohousing friend for half an hour and someone came by asking her over for wine and someone else dropped by to suggest a movie. The whole "lonely old person" is definitely not a thing for her. It seems pretty much perfect. If my current apartment a) had communal spaces and b) went condo, it would be pretty similar.
ETA: Thanks, Tom. My friend's place is here: [link]
My parents have a group of friends currently aging in place in the 10-unit building they bought 40 years ago. Aside from the lack of elevator, it's pretty sweet.
My plan is to be moving in 6-7 years, so I am going to be all over looking for a place. Buying a whole larger building in a city would be the best thing ever.
Buying a big multi-unit with a bunch of friends in a walkable pleasant small city is really not just a pipe dream, it's doable if enough people can pool enough money. And if everyone agrees on where to live. Ah, there's the sticking point!
Hi, all. I'd just as soon not write much about who I was when I started posting in the Buffy thread on TT. I was pretty repressed and angry, and alienated some people here my first couple of years.
So, let's fast forward. I didn't delurk last year because things were sort of chaotic, because after nine years in the Bay Area, I decided to give Los Angeles a try, and spent the summer there with a friend who's in grad school.
Things didn't work out, so I moved back to the East Bay for a few months, then to Sacramento where I've been since January. I love it here -- I can bike most everywhere I need to go, and after ten years in California, I have my own apartment and don't have to deal with roommates anymore. Life is good.
