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Tall, tiny house: Couple's solution to owning home in Seoul
Korea Times ^ | 2020-09-16 | Kim Se-jeong

Posted on 09/16/2020 5:13:13 PM PDT by The people have spoken

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To: lee martell

Not exactly a retirement home.

I love watching “Tiny House”

I think the buyers are nuts but I do appreciate the builders ingenuity.


21 posted on 09/16/2020 5:58:50 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: The people have spoken

Bkmrk 4 later


22 posted on 09/16/2020 6:00:21 PM PDT by twyn1
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To: LouieFisk
"A Sears "Fairy"

You know, I do believe that if Sears kept selling the same stuff they sold back in say, 1960.. I think they would still be in business..

Allstate scooters, Westernfield, JC Higgins, Ted Williams, Revelation, Ranger, and Glenfield firearms. All sorts of fishing equipment. Things that men were interested in. I mean, tools are nice but sometimes you want to relax a bit..

They did away with anything that a guy could enjoy.. I guess it was feminism that did them in. Just like K-mart...

23 posted on 09/16/2020 6:06:32 PM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: McGruff

Yes, they have earthquakes, but building codes account for this.


24 posted on 09/16/2020 6:14:13 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: The people have spoken
They have seen and been in those in Massachesetts (Mansfield?) When I was there in '98.

There was a whole row of them instead of the typical Triple Deckers.

Nothing new, but a bizarre living situation.

25 posted on 09/16/2020 6:14:44 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
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To: LouieFisk

Why not just build a “Shotgun Shack!”

You fire a shotgun through the front door and the shot goes out the back door.


26 posted on 09/16/2020 6:14:53 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: LouieFisk
I have seen a very nice home which was ordered from Sears. It arrived by train a few hundred feet from where it was erected, in kit form. It was a very nice farm house in its day, erected by a rich farmer for his "trophy" wife.

Then purchased, at the edge of the city for a married couple who both worked. They had four children.

Today it belongs to the widowed wife, who is at the edge of 90.

Hard to say what it is worth... Minimum, $300k, IMHO.

I have stayed in that house for over a month.

Basement, full floor plan and attic... I would guess it is about 2,500 square feet, with a nice lot, quiet neighborhood.

27 posted on 09/16/2020 6:21:57 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Perfectly said!


28 posted on 09/16/2020 6:26:00 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: twyn1

http://www.smallerarchitects.com/index.php/2/

here’s the link for the interiors of other floors. It took me a while to find them


29 posted on 09/16/2020 6:26:28 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God about your storm... Tell the Storm about your God)
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To: lee martell

“I sort of like that design.”

I do, too. Sears sold some nice cozy homes back in the day.


30 posted on 09/16/2020 6:38:12 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“You know, CA and NYC for example can easily eradicate the homeless population by building dorm-room skyscrapers.”

Or -
https://moscow.touristgems.com/culture/15748-khrushchyovka/


31 posted on 09/16/2020 6:41:17 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: The people have spoken

Old Seoul was a walled city. That is probably part of the old city wall in the background.


32 posted on 09/16/2020 7:11:22 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: The people have spoken

When they get older all those stairs are going to suck.


33 posted on 09/16/2020 7:21:34 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: TheZMan

(Name Slide!)

https://www.joeskc.com/pages/joes-restaurant-menu

The Z-Man!

The Z-Man Sandwich
Slow-smoked beef brisket, smoked provolone cheese, topped with two crispy onion rings, on a toasted Kaiser roll

Chicken Z-Man
It’s a Z-Man with smoked, pulled chicken and BBQ mayo!

Pork Z-Man
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Portobello Z-Man
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All very good!


34 posted on 09/16/2020 7:29:17 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: The people have spoken

There are houses similar to this all over Japan, since decades ago.


35 posted on 09/16/2020 7:50:21 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: The people have spoken

Earthquake stable?


36 posted on 09/16/2020 8:10:00 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: The people have spoken

100 million won is about $85,000. $255,000 for lot plus house. Unfortunately, the house pictures and specs are in Korean, so don’t know the house square footage.


37 posted on 09/16/2020 8:22:15 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: The people have spoken

bkmk


38 posted on 09/16/2020 10:42:37 PM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: The people have spoken

It is like 5 studio apartments in California.


39 posted on 09/16/2020 11:10:39 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

ROFL. I read your post before I clicked the link, sitting here like ... “Oh no, WTF did I post to get this reply?”


40 posted on 09/17/2020 4:25:15 AM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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