Hippie communes from the 1960s are coming back in many alternate forms, and there are already several options. The U-T featured Outsite, an AirBnb-type of company but for workers who desire temporary living arrangements in exotic areas – including a block from the beach in Encinitas.
From their website http://outsite.co/blog/:
The foundation is laid for co-living: this type of accommodation is not a trend or fad that is going to disappear in a few years. Between the plethora of providers currently offering co-living spaces in every corner of the globe, and the massive interest that residents from all professional backgrounds and lifestyles show, co-living has appeal and support that will help establish it as a unique but valuable form of accommodation. Residents may stay anywhere from a few days to a few months, but the concept of co-living has a permanence that will last for years to come.
Co-living solves many of the problems that entrepreneurs, freelancers and remote workers face, such as finding quality space on short notice with minimal commitment. At the same time, co-living provides the added benefits of community, focus and inspiration.
While watching the video, the only thing I could think was “Stay a child your whole life! You never have to grow up!”
I guess co-living is just not for me. Middle aged, married and have to be in bed by 10pm to be up for work by 5am.
Maybe if I was still in my 20s and single, living in a frat house like this would be a blast!
What’s that location in the image at the top? Looks great but I don’t recognize it.
Moonlight Beach, Encinitas
Eddie89:
“While watching the video, the only thing I could think was “Stay a child your whole life! You never have to grow up!”
I guess co-living is just not for me. Middle aged, married and have to be in bed by 10pm to be up for work by 5am.
Maybe if I was still in my 20s and single, living in a frat house like this would be a blast!”
I don’t mean to be a scold, but I’ve said this before. There’s a party going on, and you aren’t invited. They don’t have to be accountable. They have a ton of fiscal leverage thanks to the internet, in IT, and inherited money, to name a few avenues.
If you don’t have a ridiculous stream of income or inherited money from the get go, you can’t compare your life to this economic set in accordance to a conventional value system. It’s silly to try.
These kids like the access. Now they can flatter their boss and friends with a party in a house on the beach. Look how smart they are. See how they can make things happen. Look at those waves. Look at that sunset. The boss likes that. Their friends are impressed. Awesome Facebook photos, dude. Invite me, next time!
Applying conventional values to these people is like your dad who served in WWII trying to make sense of 1968. He’s not even on the same wavelength. He’s irrelevant. The people our age (boomers) who can still make things happen are a minority, and they ain’t talking to us, because we essentially don’t matter. We have to be in bed by 10 pm, you know.
At least now you know how your dad felt when you tried to explain the genius of Janis Joplin to him after he asked you why you listen to that horrible, sh*tty music.
There’s no country for old boomers.
Daytrip, I’m a GenX and I don’t get it either. Also I work in the computer industry and millennials are still on the bottom rung (for the most part).
“Daytrip, I’m a GenX and I don’t get it either. Also I work in the computer industry and millennials are still on the bottom rung (for the most part).”
Same answer. Your millennials aren’t invited to the party. They lack social and real capital. How many of your millennial kids are Ivy league? My friend’s son just graduated Yale. His roommate’s dad owns a Hedge Fund service in Irvine. He asked his dad to hire my friend’s kid, which he did. Starting salary is 150K plus perks. Not bad for 22 years old. He has social capital, thanks to Yale. He’s invited to the party.
If he’d gone to SDSU, he’d likely be sitting next to the millennial kids you see, crying in his chinese takeout. I’m only piping up because, through serendipity, I was around a lot of rich people in my 20’s. Also a number of Yalie’s and Harvard folk. Went to their parties. Not only do they not think like you and me, they don’t want to. Generally, they believe they are fundamentally better than you, and especially me. They believe it in their hearts, like a religion. They might choose to talk to you, give you the time of day, but only because they’re “nice people.” They won’t take you seriously, except to literally feel sorry for you. Those are the people who don’t conform to popular american ethics, and… don’t want to. And that’s my point.
Why should they? They’re excellent, and you and I are not. If you’re not excellent, you exist to be guided by the excellent. And that’s them. Whether you know it or not is irrelevant to them. In some way, they intend to play a part in your life. Hi, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, your 20-something hedge fund kid, and tons of others.
So if you’re a 23-something hedge fund kid, making 150K, and you still have to pay off your Ivy league loan, renting a house on the beach for a slumber party is just what the doctor ordered to make your peers like you, or at least intimidate them, in your mind.