Loose language maybe. Co housing is a better term http://www.cohousing.org.uk/

I was in a group that bought a large house and split it into flats sharing the land around it.

It was very good and very bad all at the same time.

"A curates egg" is the phrase ..

>>>Ha ha ha. Not hardly. What is considered 'rich' these days anyway? My life plan has always been to be adopted by someone rich :o)
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>>very true. What is rich.I used to live in a housing community.
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>Could you describe, briefly if possible, the difference between "a housing community" and "communal housing"?
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>>I noticed there seemed to be an inverse relationship between the amount of money people there had and how rich they considered themselves.
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>The effect of the need to show off what wealth there was, and the need to hide the length of the amount, I guess.