A look in the past can give you a peek into the future with Obama's "change"
Posted on 06/03/2011 6:46:49 PM PDT by dynachrome
Hey DC, Thanks for posting. The lady didn’t annoy me at all. She chose it. It wouldn’t work for all of us, but it works for them. She and her husband have made it very cute. I showed my husband because I knew he would come up with all sorts of other neat videos he has run across on the web. Here are some that may be of interest to you and others. BTW, thanks for the link on the camping cabin homes. My husband had the idea one time after coming back from a trip down Alamosa way of all places, that we should make a house of camping cabins—each cabin would be a separate room. I liked the idea. We will probably never be able to do it, but it doesn’t hurt to dream and think outside the box.
Here are the videos/link he has run across:
Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces
http://wimp.com/infinitespaces/
A tiny Hong Kong apartment transforms into 24 rooms
http://wimp.com/apartmenttransforms/
The Cube House (This is from a greenie/lefitst type group, but still neat to me):
http://wimp.com/cubehouse/
And then this link for Shipping Container homes.
http://www.shippingcontainerhousedesign.com/
If you do a search on Google you can pull up all kinds of neat shipping container houses:
And the last one is one I saw on TV and posted about on FR:
Solving Haiti’s Housing Problems with Old Tires, Bottles
(Pictures of these houses on FR thread)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2571096/posts
And last but not least, one my husband showed me awhile ago—The Garbage Truck Camper:
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=60;t=001461;p=1
This is a common living space known as Katrina Cottages that sprang up after the storm. Basically a small house built on a camper trailer size frame. I have seen few in Ms and La over the last few years. Its better than an RV but only marginally. And better than a FEMA trailer for sure.
A look in the past can give you a peek into the future with Obama's "change"
“My garage is bigger’n that.”
My KITCHEN is bigger than that. I would have to go outside to change my mind.
“And you may find yourself
“In a beautiful house
“With a beautiful wife
“And you may ask yourself
“Well
“How did I get here?”
And you may ask yourself
How did I lose that beautiful house
How did I lose that beautiful wife
Well
Obamanomics
Just a suggestion, but when a video is posted in which the subject is living quarters, a photo would be nice for those poor deprived and depraved Freepers such as the OldPossum who have dial-up connections and cannot bring up videos.
Why, thank you, ma’am. That was quick.
From what I see there, it’s gotta be unpleasant living.
I am quite familiar with “shotgun house.” It’s a common term in the South to describe a house that has rooms attached in a straight line, from front porch to back porch.
There are still a lot of shotgun houses around. I know a place on a busy highway where there are 4 in a row. My best friend in high school lived in one also.
Under their pillows.
what I didn’t figure out was, if they own the cottage free and clear, why on earth park it in a mobile home lot at $145/mo? why not plunk down another grand or so and buy an acre- free and clear? and then build out from the original 320 sqft - all free and clear?
small post for a small house for a ‘little’ reading later.
It's sorta a cross between a yurt and an Airstream.
I agree with the additional well known observation that the governments will still extract "rent" from you and try like heck to control your use.
It actually looked livable
Obamavilles.
It looked a lot like a UFO house I’d seen, but wasn’t sure if it was a Great Depression re-purposing of something, like street cars ripped out of civic transport systems and turned into churches.
The only thing better is to own your own lot. My double wide sits on its own lot. My yard is a garden. My septic tank makes the poppy go away. I do have to pay for electric, water, and just over $100 year taxes. Lived here for 10 years think I got a good deal for my 12K plus the repairs I did 1254 sq ft each of my kids had their own bedroom not a loft.
“Who wants to live like that? “
Would you rather pay, say, $2000-$6000 in real estate taxes, work 4 jobs between you and your wife, pay higher income taxes?
These people made a rational decision: less work, more time, smaller house.
I suspect it’s going to be a decision more and more people make - both by choice and by necessity.
Tax avoidance IS an American tradition. In many older cities, taxation was a factor of how many doors, how many windows, how much road frontage....the architecture in these cities reflects the taxation regime in place at the time.
Having a smaller house makes you much more mobile - and able to avoid the schemes of government at all levels to take your money.
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