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	<title>Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada</title>
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		<title>Top Ten Reasons People Are Filling Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pacificgardens.ca/top-ten-reasons-people-are-filling-pacific-gardens-cohousing-community/</link>
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		<title>Locating Midpoint: A Journey Toward Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(IssuesMagazine.net) &#8211; by Skylark Disraeli
Every one of my former partners has been right: I&#8217;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. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pacificgardens.ca/locating-midpoint-a-journey-toward-community/</link>
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		<title>CBC: Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Co-Housing, the modern incarnation of communal living?
How well do you know your neighbours? If you&#8217;re like most of us, not that well. Unless of course you&#8217;re involved in the co-housing movement. It&#8217;s kind of the modern incarnation of the commune &#8211; without the wife swapping, presumably. I&#8217;ll talk to a couple of folks who live [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pacificgardens.ca/cbc-interview/</link>
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		<title>The Province: The new neighbours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cohousing developments are thriving in B.C. and their residents, called &#8220;cohos,&#8221; are challenging notions of what family and sustainability mean

Elaine O&#8217;Connor, The Province
Published: Sunday, July 27, 2008

When Susana Michaelis was looking to buy a house she knew what she didn&#8217;t want: a home in a subdivision that was car-dependent and cut off from neighbours. So in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pacificgardens.ca/the-province-the-new-neighbours/</link>
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		<title>Jan. 2008 Bulletin</title>
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Our  newly renovated reception area
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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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pacificgardens.ca/jan-2008-bulletin/</link>
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		<title>Nov. 2007 Bulletin</title>
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Pacific Gardens Events
Friday,  November 30 &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pacificgardens.ca/nov-2007-bulletin/</link>
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		<title>Oct. 2007 Bulletin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pacific Gardens Events
October 26 Harvest Festival Potluck &#8211; 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 monthâ€™s  theme is the harvest &#8211; a celebration of fresh, local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pacificgardens.ca/october-2007-bulletin/</link>
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