Tag: extended family
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The Place We Put Our People
It is the remarkable uniformity – the sameness – that slaps me in the face. Pleasant. Clean. Spacious. Orderly. Middle class. Nice. A place you walk into and believe that your dad, mom or grandpa will be safe and taken care of, that everything will be okay, that you’re doing The Right Thing. These buildings, like clusters… Read more
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Sleeping With Our Friends
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. ~ Jane Austen, Persuasion, 1818 For years I’ve coveted the custom, lifted from Jane Austen novels, of extended stays in the homes of friends and acquaintances. Up rolled the carriages and out flowed the people for a week or more of dinners, recitals, game-playing,… Read more
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All in the Family
The Bay Citizen reported in today’s The New York Times that multigenerational housing is a real estate growth niche around the San Francisco area, aimed at the needs of a growing immigrant population http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/us/22cncmultigenerational.html?pagewanted=2. However, it is a form of housing that is more likely to be adopted by North Americans in general as the challenges… Read more