Common land may include a communal vegetable garden, animal barn, even swimming pool. Housing arrangements are diverse too. One intentional community may have a small amount of land with two or three large houses. These houses will be home to multiple families, with personal bedroom and bathroom space but communal kitchens. Intentional Communities can include both of these extremes and everything in between.
Philosophies are yet another diversity.
Some allow pets, most don't. Some have stringent rules, some have only basic guidelines that are open for discussion. Some require that you pool your resources with other community members and share everything, but most ask you to share only services and skills. Whatever the basis, style, size or goal, Intentional Communities are popping up all over the globe, and are a scource of endless fascination for someone like me. Imagine having all the social interaction that adults and children need, right there across the way.