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For my tastes, the idea of people living in "Tiny Houses" is loving stupid. It seemed to pop up during or shortly after the GFC in 2008. Among young millennials such as myself, there was still a certain glimmer to the world and we wanted to have real experiences. The idea of being tied down, or simply traveling to occupy an all-inclusive resort without experiencing "The Real" [Insert Impoverished Country] was repellent. There was also a growing notion that owning a house in a suburb a few miles outside a major city was 1. financially irresponsible and 2. likely impossible within our lifetime. Enter Tiny Houses! At first the idea seems brilliant if not a bit twee. You can have all the trappings of a real house just smaller. Even better, you can hook one of these little houses up to your truck and take it wherever you want! Seems great doesn't it! Well its not for a number of reasons. First of all, these are all just mobile homes that have been repackaged to appeal to sweater vest wearing white millennials with useless degrees from Mt. Holyoke or Evergreen or wherever. Both of these do the same thing, but the one on the right has the bonus of decimating your fuel economy  Secondly, this isn't a new trend at all. People have been taking to the open road for a very, very long time. A lot of places have really strict rules about camping, which is what you will be doing. Much of the wide open bucolic property in the US is privately held, or part of a parks system. This means you're going to end up on a campground, or in a parking lot. What people expect  Their new home  Oh yeah, and you won't be alone! If you decide you want to live this transient lifestyle because its fun and quirky, you are greatly increasing your chances of running into: *GASP* ACTUAL POOR PEOPLE This can be a bit of a shocker for some, but a lot of people living in parking lots and on campsites aren't necessarily there by choice. A lot of them won't have ever heard of Neutral Milk Hotel, or even the Bauhaus movement.The irony of your #vanlife is going to be lost on these people. You're basically engaging in poverty tourism without realizing that you're also poor as poo poo. Your new neighbors  The amount of media surrounding this so called "movement" is astounding. To me it seems like its just a concerted effort to sell people on the idea that property ownership will never happen in their lifetime. The American Dream died long ago and there are no new frontiers. The idea gets painted as somewhat glamorous until you realize your partner is taking a poo poo 7 inches away from where you do dishes, and sleeping with the ceiling 6 inches from your face loving sucks (forget about doggy style). Its just repackaging poverty to make it more palatable for the people who bought into the idea that their Bachelor's degree would secure them a future. To be clear, RV camping is a great time. In fact, spending a few months in an RV and roaming around can be a really great experience. I just think the idea of "tiny houses" is questionable, and the real financial benefits are pretty much non-existent unless you already own a large parcel of land, which sort of defeats the purpose doesn't it? In conclusion: 
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What do you need more than one room for??
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Oct 13, 2020 02:05
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The_Continental posted:This can be a bit of a shocker for some, but a lot of people living in parking lots and on campsites aren't necessarily there by choice. A lot of them won't have ever heard of Neutral Milk Hotel, or even the Bauhaus movement.The irony of your #vanlife is going to be lost on these people. You're basically engaging in poverty tourism without realizing that you're also poor as poo poo. I haven't heard of Neutral Milk Hotel. What a way to find out that I'm poor! I'd turn away from the screen and cry, but I'm jammed in between my shower on one side and my waterproof 13" television on the other!
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Oct 13, 2020 02:06
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Agreed op, those things suck poo poo. I like my 960sq ft house, it's a perfect amount of space for me. And I can even afford it on a single income!
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Oct 13, 2020 02:08
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I like living in an apartment also knowing that my home won't blow over if it gets too breezy
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Oct 13, 2020 02:09
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My coworker quit our job so he could become basically a Slumlord for a Hipster trailer park right before the pandemic hit and I’m pretty sure he’s the only resident there now.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:13
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Small house, big life.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:13
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It’s better if houses have no movement I’m bob vila and I know this kind of poo poo
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Oct 13, 2020 02:16
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Premeditated Toast posted:My coworker quit our job so he could become basically a Slumlord for a Hipster trailer park right before the pandemic hit and I’m pretty sure he’s the only resident there now. Trailer park supervisor is a coveted and prestigious position
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Oct 13, 2020 02:17
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A lot of terrible mediocre US cities Ive lived in are making concerted efforts to finally obliterate the remaining trailer parks, so good luck finding somewhere to haul your terrible financial burden on wheels I guess?
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Oct 13, 2020 02:18
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I think some tiny homes, where you buy small lots in developed areas or are rich and buy beautiful land and then live in your million dollar ascetic cubby seem fine. The rest seem to be trying to convince people who can't afford homes to still buy a home but its an even worse financial decision now
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Oct 13, 2020 02:22
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My favorite part is when they think they’re going to save so much money, but it turns out it’s actually super expensive to live in misery. I wish those stupid tv shows did a ‘6 months later’ catch-up to enjoy.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:22
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Your soul is as tiny as those houses. You will suffer for this.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:26
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Yes Suburban box homes are good, they're an appropriate size, comfortable, pleasing to the eye, create a calm neighborhood and are easily reproducable en masse to save energy and material usage.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:26
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I want to buy a sliver of land in a rich area and put one of these on it. Everyone, even probably me, would be so pissed all the time over it.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:28
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I know a woman who did the tiny house thing for a bit. I'm pretty sure she was just squatting on her friend's property for the entire time she owned it.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:28
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Tiny homes have terrible resale value, and usually costs a lot more per foot to build because you need custom furniture, and appliances. It also turns out construction workers actually don't give a gently caress about your lifehack, and don't want to do a job that makes only the fraction amount of money of a normal house. You'll also have a hard time getting a mortgage or insurance for a house.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:34
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I've considered a tiny home but I have the means to at least purchase land on which to park it. Less home cost means more money for a garage for race cars and other toys 
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Oct 13, 2020 02:36
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Regular homeownership is not some impossible hurdle either. I've seen people get approved for mortgages working part time jobs.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:43
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Solice Kirsk posted:Regular homeownership is not some impossible hurdle either. I've seen people get approved for mortgages working part time jobs. Yeah dude this is called "predation"
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Oct 13, 2020 02:47
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Back when my father was alive he built houses for a living and got into the train of building tiny houses near the end of his retirement. Honestly he thought it was a great idea for people who really want to live simple lives and that money was flowing in that direction very well. Can't really say for sure in these times though! If someone gets sick everyone gets sick.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:50
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Nooner posted:I like living in an apartment also knowing that my home won't blow over if it gets too breezy Where is the excitement in that?
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Oct 13, 2020 02:56
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CongoJack posted:I want to buy a sliver of land in a rich area and put one of these on it. Everyone, even probably me, would be so pissed all the time over it. Except you cant do this. Zoning laws often take in "character" considerations and there are often HOAs that will block you. Additionally minimum lot sizes preclude you from buying a "sliver".
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Oct 13, 2020 02:56
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Tiny houses are cute up until you've got atomic burrito shits and everyone in the house gets to languish in your turd smells all fuckin' night.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:58
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The home will be even tinier when I am done with it. I have taken my rear end and consumed the tiny home, it will slowly be crushed by my anal muscles.
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Oct 13, 2020 03:02
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For just a moment I thought you were talking about the Tiny House Warriors. So brave. http://www.tinyhousewarriors.com/
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Oct 13, 2020 03:05
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ops mom probably got rammed by a tiny house while he was at school. op are you still on free lunch?
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Oct 13, 2020 03:06
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Slumpy posted:ops mom probably got rammed by a tiny house while he was at school. op are you still on free lunch? I'm a tiny house and OP hosed me.
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Oct 13, 2020 03:09
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loving got 'em
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Oct 13, 2020 03:11
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in the near futurerepublicans posted:70% of these supposedly "homeless" people have cars they can live in
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Oct 13, 2020 03:14
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It’s like half the cost of building a normal house for 1/10th of the square footage! 
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Oct 13, 2020 03:19
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I have a camper and it owns. Its nice to have but living in it is not a good long term thing for me anyway. Anyone who can manage it and enjoy it good on them.
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Oct 13, 2020 03:21
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vandalism posted:I have a camper and it owns. Its nice to have but living in it is not a good long term thing for me anyway. Anyone who can manage it and enjoy it good on them. Yeah the poo poo you see on the TV shows look like cute 2nd home things, like split them like a non lovely timeshare with friends or something (if it wasn’t for the stupidly high price of having them on land). But it’s always ‘I have 2 teenagers, one boy and one girl, and a dog and 2 cats and I’ve decided we can live forever in 300sqf despite never even trying this for a week before’.
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Oct 13, 2020 03:25
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Did u know??? An apartment is a stack of tiny houses. But more space efficient and not stupid.
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Oct 13, 2020 03:27
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I like tiny horse movements
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Oct 13, 2020 03:28
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bradzilla posted:Agreed op, those things suck poo poo. I like my 960sq ft house, it's a perfect amount of space for me. And I can even afford it on a single income! I too own a little bungalow. I like it very much. tango alpha delta fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Oct 13, 2020 03:30
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tiny houses suck poo poo
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Oct 13, 2020 03:30
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I've seen tiny houses work outside Austin at a shelter for the chronically homeless, but that place was super unique and also had a blend of rvs and tiny homes just outside Travis County to avoid municipal backlash. Cant just plop those down anywhere and claim crisis over, you gotta have a hell of a staff and financial backing out the rear end to make it work.
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Oct 13, 2020 03:38
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Your trailer is now a "tiny house" and "SRO apartment" is a "micro-loft"
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Cherube Goldberg posted:What do you need more than one room for?? God, do you think we want the UberEats delivery person to see a room that looks like people use it for anything but displaying fresh flowers, art and the latest issue of AD?
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