Driven by green concerns, house prices, the desire for a simpler existence - and now Covid, too - there's been a boom in communal livingAfter 40 years, Dave Hodgson has a sixth sense when it comes to an aspiring communard. "If they take one look at our shared bathrooms and say they need a good scrub, or complain about having to put a jumper on when Old Dragon packs in, they won't make it," Hodgson says, referring to his commune's biomass boiler.Would-be members used to contact Bergholt Hall, one of Britain's longest standing farming communes, at the rate of 70 or so a year: 50-something empty nesters looking for companionship; 30-something couples in pursuit of an idyllic upbringing for their children; 20-somethings keen to erect a yurt on the hall's rolling Suffolk pasture. Since the Covid lockdowns, however, Hodgson admits, it's been "bonkers". "We had 70 applications in April and May alone." Continue reading...
Is the boom in communal living really the good life?
17. ledna 2021 13:16
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/17/is-the-boom-in-communal-living-really-the-good-life
Zdroj: The Guardian