People often ask me why I want to move into cohousing. If they have no idea what cohousing is they assume I’m having a mid-life (well… maybe a bit later than that) crisis of some sort and am wanting to return to dorm life. If they do know what it is, I used to launch into a collection of canned phrases like “intentional community”, “neighbors as friends”, “community at your doorstep”, blah, blah, blah. At which point they would either glaze over – with a look of that-sounds-l