Coliving and Friendship: The Power of Sharing That Creates Bonds

A community within a coliving encourages individuals to make friends and build connections, improving their psychological well-being

An inclusive and participatory environment, like a community within a coliving, encourages individuals to make friends and build bonds, thus improving their well-being.

It is well known now that living in a coliving means sharing, experimenting, getting to know others, creating bonds, relationships, and friendships. Inside a coliving, you become part of a community where the personalities and peculiarities of each resident blend and influence each other; everyone’s life is enriched by new experiences, lifestyles, ideas, and creative inspirations. Indeed, human beings are made to be in contact with others and to build human relationships based on exchange, solidarity, sharing, and friendship. Being able to nurture relationships generates a feeling of completeness in each of us.

The importance of human relationships

Currently, we are living in an unpredictable, uncertain, difficult, and strange reality: we cannot move freely, see each other, touch, or hug. The emergency caused by the pandemic—which has literally taken control of everyone’s lives, changing habits—has highlighted how human relationships are among the most precious things there are. In this sense, a coliving, where the concepts of living and working coexist, becomes much more than just a place to live and work while sharing expenses and enjoying all the comforts of a super-equipped and organized shared space. At a time when the world is blocked by the Covid-19 emergency, coliving is a space where interaction and relationships can continue; within it, the sense of belonging and sharing is so strong that not only especially creative and fruitful work collaborations but also true friendships can be born. And this is even more true given the historical period we live in.

Sharing ideas and values

Inside a coliving, as mentioned, people share spaces, services, and expenses; but what matters most is the sharing of passions, stories, ambitions, goals, and projects. In a coliving, you are immersed in a constantly evolving reality, where every resident is an integral part of the system and contributes to the community’s activities. It is easy to understand then that within a coliving community what is shared is also a whole system of fundamental values; this is what allows different and culturally distant people to share the same worldview that lets them live under the same roof. In such a harmonious and inclusive environment, only lasting relationships based on mutual respect and esteem, sincerity and trust, but also affection and availability can be born. In other words, friendship.

Co-living 2.0

Through coliving, a new concept of cohabitation is established: no longer are strangers merely using the same living spaces independently; instead, students, travelers, professionals living together—even for a short period—manage to establish synergies and relationships that go beyond the mere duration of their stay. In fact, coliving creates a type of networking that crosses offline and online boundaries, where private and social life blend with work life, building not only collaborations but also friendships.  In BeetCommunity’s coliving spaces, you will find environments furnished and designed with care and elegance, equipped with everything necessary to live comfortably and breathe an atmosphere full of creativity and inspiration; but more than anything else, you will find a true community of people united by feelings of belonging, empathy, sharing, and friendship.