Co-housing - Higher Ground continuation

Glad to see that people are interested in co-housing.

This is the type of community I am interested in eventually moving to.  It is a great thing:  as we retire, we need help, but more importantly, we also can be of great value.  A typical thing that happens in such a place is that those who are retired might go to the community center and help supervise children after school until parents come home, feed the kids or help start a community dinner.  Likewise, when we need a ride to the doctor or help with something around the home, the favor is returned.  It is a win-win situation for everyone and really a true community atmosphere.  There are books written about this subject and there are websites that deal with the subject.  Another search term to use is "intentional communities"   Some of these are weird, but most of them are normal people who tend to focus on green and natural living and being self sustaining.  That is actually what I want to do.  This whole economic disaster and the possibility of having little or no social security upon retirement has made me think that my goal should not be so much to accumulate wealth for the future, but to find a way to be independent and not worry about what is going on.  An interesting thing to read is the Mother Earth News  (also have a website with lots of good articles) which has lots of inspiring articles about people achieving this dream and reminds us of the basic survival skills most of us have to be self sufficient, but which we just are not using.  I like the idea of the cohousing communities where there is a cross section of age groups.  I want to be somewhere that continues after I am gone.  I have definitely decided this is what I want to do and now I am just looking for the where:  I want to be in the mountains or near the mountains, but not where it is too cold to grow fruits and vegetables.  I'm looking at the Arizona mountains right now.