There is the security of known neighbors. There is a generally green complexion. Eno Commons folk come across so enthusiastic and genuine, it feels mean to wonder how long such associations can last. But buying into cohousing doesn't mean one will stay there. Jobs, marriages, health and dispositions change and set people in motion.
Urban anonymity can be relief from too much familiarity.
Close quarters, physical and psychic, are one thing where numbers and geography have dictated them for generations - quite another where open spaces from the start framed the American reference. But such associations are a counter, Rosenthal says, to the cynicism a disappointed age equates with smarts. They don't even have a house on the site, but they feel they have a neighborhood.