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There are all sorts of people who decide to share housing. Many times people who are sharing housing don't think anything special about it. It's just how they live. But it you are considering the idea and are unsure, it can be helpful to read about how others are doing it. That's what this category is: stories of real people sharing housing.
Could you live your sister or brother now that you are grown up? Here's a family where the adults are brother and sister, each with a spouse and one child. Four adults, two children under one roof. …
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Divorced, the mother of two adult children, Cynthia left the rural community where she had lived for many years for life in the Boston area. Her journey taught her the benefits of living in shared …
Dear Sugar is an WBUR radio show offering fabulously sage relationship advice. On a recent episode, they responded to a straight woman, aged 49, who has a dear friend, 51, male and gay. She wanted to …
It became a cooperative. Julie and friends from college had a vision of living together. And where many of us may have enjoyed conversations where we dreamed about maybe living together, these friends …
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"This house needs people” is the thought that came unbidden one day as Patricia walked through the living room of her large four-bedroom colonial with three and a half baths. She had lived there with …
“Less is more” says John, 56, former wildlife biologist, landlord and husband. He had the whole kit and caboodle; the house, the job, a child, and multiple titles and responsibilities. Now he’s …
