The most common misconception about coliving isn't that it's expensive or strange.

It's that it's for something — figuring out your life, escaping a problem, replacing a marriage, recovering from burnout.

For some people, sure. But for a lot of us, it's just what you reach for when solo travel starts tipping into loneliness and you want the particular energy of shared meals and a room full of people working quietly on their own things.

Some months you want a quiet apartment with no one to talk to before noon. Some months you want to make crepes with strangers in a French castle on Sunday morning.

Both are fine. Coliving is one of the tools that makes the second possible.