1. Nanaimo is a beautiful, newly revitalized, ocean-side city with a thriving culture and a university.
2. All but a handful of cohousing units in all of B.C. are OCCUPIED and Pacific Gardens offers a rare Vancouver Island location.
3. Current interest rates are unbelievable.
4. Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community owners are lovely, funny, caring, proactive people: A [...]
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Top Ten Reasons People Are Filling Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community
Published by May 19th, 2009 in Blog. 0 Comments(IssuesMagazine.net) – by Skylark Disraeli
Every one of my former partners has been right: I’m a controller. But after endless attempts to eradicate this trait, I have ultimately located an environment that relishes it!
Over the past two decades, I have dipped my toes into countless types of relationship and at least as many styles of accommodation. [...]
Co-Housing, the modern incarnation of communal living?
How well do you know your neighbours? If you’re like most of us, not that well. Unless of course you’re involved in the co-housing movement. It’s kind of the modern incarnation of the commune – without the wife swapping, presumably. I’ll talk to a couple of folks who live [...]
Cohousing developments are thriving in B.C. and their residents, called “cohos,” are challenging notions of what family and sustainability mean
Elaine O’Connor, The Province
Published: Sunday, July 27, 2008
When Susana Michaelis was looking to buy a house she knew what she didn’t want: a home in a subdivision that was car-dependent and cut off from neighbours. So in [...]
Our newly renovated reception area
Office Renos
Wow! If you’ve been to our office before, we invite you come back for another visit. If you haven’t been before, drop in and check out the all-new Pacific Gardens office! You’ll be really impressed by the transformation.
Roz, [...]
Pacific Gardens Events
Friday, November 30 – Land Tour at 2:30 PM
Join us for the first land tour since excavation began at the site in October – a first visit for the owners as well. It may be a little shocking for us to see the normally beautiful, peaceful property in [...]
Pacific Gardens Events
October 26 Harvest Festival Potluck – 6:00 PM Unitarian Hall, Nanaimo
Our October potluck will be held, as usual, on the last Friday of the month at the Unitarian Hall, 595 Townsite Road in Nanaimo beginning at 6:00 PM. This month’s theme is the harvest – a celebration of fresh, local [...]