“It’s the best thing I’ve done for myself in years.” This is what my friend Bruce said when I asked him how it was going with his housemate of five months. Bruce is in his late fifties, divorced with grown children. “I’d been bouncing about my big, two-story house for three years ever since the [...]
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“Three’s Company” the situation comedy of the 1970′s depicts three housemates: one male and two females getting into scrapes and getting out of them. It was on purpose a show of slapstick and innuendo. Three housemates offers a good balance in a household. I might be biased because I lived in an apartment of three [...]
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Sharing Housing is Sustainable Living
A nicely written article in a Vancouver publication called “Save the Planet, Save the Earth” describing the benefits of sharing housing. What caught my eye was the information of the ecological benefits of sharing housing. The author, Chris Cannon, cites statistics that lead to the statement that if everyone lived in shared housing the gains [...]