A good friend of mine in Seattle has a cousin here who graciously invited me to dinner with her family and offered to help me figure out housing alternatives here, both very helpful as I don't have a place for us to live nor have I made many new friends here yet (I've been here two weeks).
Dinner and meeting their family was wonderful and also eye-opening. They live in non-profit housing in Albertslund, a really nice development with row-houses separated with pedestrian lanes and parking on the periphery of the development.
This is of course exactly the kind of place that Susan and I (and many of our friends) have always wanted in Seattle but that's been hard-to-find: A place where your children (or your cat) can safely play/bicycle etc. (OK the cat can't bicycle) without fear of car traffic and also a place that maybe increases the likelihood of interaction with your neighbors. In other words, a classing 'cohousing' layout!
I'm told that to the west of Copenhagen (towns such as Albertslund) there are many 'planned' developments such as these, and there are some to the north as well nr Vedæk where my work is located. The key is to find this type of development, not 'andelsbolig' as such (although that would be nice) so I'm going to refocus my efforts around finding this sort of housing development as a place for my family to live for the next 3 years. Time to start looking around in earnest when I return from Seattle on Oct. 23rd.
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