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I’m thinking about starting a thread to discuss habitation, particularly the idea of living alone, and the politics/philosophy/environmental impact/social and personal experience, thereof. I think the central question of the thread is: What implications does living alone have for individuals, societies and the environment?
My questions are:
Has there been a thread about this (I did a Google Barbelith search and couldn’t really see anything)?
If not, do people think this might be of interest?
If yes, where should it go?
My first inclination is Switchboard, primarily because the social and political implications of a continuing increase in single occupancy accommodations (obvious economic, space, home ownership, land use issues) were what started me thinking about the subject.
But then I think there is a very important Head Shop strand to it as well – I realised that I am concerned the possible impact on individuals and society that more of us are living alone, does it decrease tolerance, are we becoming isolated, what happens to our support networks etc. It also struck me that I was making a value judgement - share good, alone selfish - and I wondered what other people thought about that. Against this, is the fact that it has been massively empowering and a source of freedom for women, in particular, and for many others oppressed by the old structures of enforced cohabitation.
Then again, as everyone lives somehow, somewhere, I’m wondering whether it is not actually just a Conversation thread in which people could begin, at least, by discussing how they have lived/live and what they think of living alone.
This is quite rambling – you see my problem! No-one wants a thread like this and maybe by deciding where it goes, I can set about structuring it a little better. Or not.
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