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Inside the Tiny House Movement where more and more Americans have rejected tradition for a simpler..
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 5, 2014 | David McCormack

Posted on 08/05/2014 10:02:25 AM PDT by C19fan

Once upon a time an American family’s home was their castle and the bigger the better, but growing concerns about meeting mortgage payments and the environmental impact of large houses has helped fuel a new movement of people who are happy to live small.

The Tiny House Movement is a growing group of people who are happy to downsize the space that they live in and enjoy simplified lives as a result.

While the average American home is around 2600 square feet, the typical small or tiny house is around 100-400 square feet.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: americaindecline; house; smartgrowth; socialism; standardofliving; stupidpeople; thirdworldatlast; tiny
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To: GeronL

21 posted on 08/05/2014 10:16:10 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: C19fan
the typical small or tiny house is around 100-400 square feet.

My daughter had a 400 SQ ft apt in San Francisco at one time. When I visited I slept on a twin size air mattress on the kitchen floor. And I didn't feel good about myself or the earth.

22 posted on 08/05/2014 10:19:01 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: C19fan

(rolling eyes)

In the height of the 90s, the same movement of opting out of high paying corporate jobs and becoming simple alpaca farmers (or some such).

Ask their children how that turned out.


23 posted on 08/05/2014 10:19:13 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Liberty Valance

40 years ago I was with a company that sent 70 structures to Nigeria for an African exposition that was to be attended continent wide in the 70s.

The infrastructure in Nigeria was so unprepared to execute this exposition that only a third of the buildings were built and used in the exposition as originally intended. Another third were never built and the structural and enclosure elements were lost, scavenged or wasted. The last third were used and built in areas not in the original concept. One of these was a grain storage elevator much like in your picture. It was built and some months later another government group started to load grain into it and a tragedy occurred.

Because the structure was built and then went unused, a family set up residence through a machinery access hatch. When grain was put into it early one morning, the family suffocated and died as no one knew they were inside.


24 posted on 08/05/2014 10:19:39 AM PDT by KC Burke (Gowdy for Supreme Court)
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To: C19fan; All

I’m looking to build, one-level, about 1500 sq ft for two of us and a few dogs, and one big-@ss pole barn for chickens, sheep, rabbits, goats, a milk cow, and an attached kennel for the Coon Hounds.

In fact, I MIGHT just build a big pole barn with about 500 sq ft of ‘living space’ and forget about a house altogether.

Now THAT’S livin’, Baby! :)


25 posted on 08/05/2014 10:23:10 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Liberty Valance

Practical and beautiful to my eye! :)


26 posted on 08/05/2014 10:23:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: C19fan

That is a good way to describe them.... hipster version of a mobile home. lol


27 posted on 08/05/2014 10:23:51 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Turmoil in the Middle East? Quick Obama, show them your Peace Prize!)
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To: C19fan

I happen to like a small house but 100 square feet is overdoing it. My dogs and I would be fine with 5 or 6 hundred square feet.

If I could get away with it I’d take half my garage in make it into a home.


28 posted on 08/05/2014 10:25:12 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: C19fan

More and more Americans are realizing that they will never be able to buy a real house in the New Economy.


29 posted on 08/05/2014 10:28:42 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Liberty Valance

LOVE IT!!!!


30 posted on 08/05/2014 10:29:52 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

You are a hoot!!


31 posted on 08/05/2014 10:31:16 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

The only real difference is with an actual mobile home you can keep the wheels, at least the axles. But I guess if living in a hut makes them happy then have it.


32 posted on 08/05/2014 10:31:25 AM PDT by WinMod70
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To: Liberty Valance

Do you know what those would sell for here in the heartland? From a design perspective, some of these tiny houses are really cool. But not as a sole residence.


33 posted on 08/05/2014 10:31:35 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: demshateGod

bump


34 posted on 08/05/2014 10:32:21 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: cripplecreek

I have to admit that this sort of thing intrigues me. But more from a “man cave” perspective than anything else. There’s one guy in NYC who actually took a dumpster (brand new and unused one) and turned it into a house complete with an attached gas grill, “roof top” deck, etc.

Many years down the road, when the kids are out of the nest and the wife has taken off with the mailman, a small house like one of these on a small river with a dock for a 25’-28’ sailboat would be my optimal retirement pad.


35 posted on 08/05/2014 10:32:26 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: demshateGod

very true, the common good. Wouldn’t want to be a burden or a useless eater


36 posted on 08/05/2014 10:34:23 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yep! And, as long as you have a water well and septic system....you are GOOD!

I’m right there with ya on this idea ;)


37 posted on 08/05/2014 10:34:52 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: a fool in paradise
or maybe the tub was outside in the courtyard while doing clothes at the same time?

Clothes are done, hop in kids.

38 posted on 08/05/2014 10:36:24 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yupsters would call that a “barn conversion”, you’re just talking about a modern-style barn. Why not?


39 posted on 08/05/2014 10:37:12 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Liberty Valance

That silo must either be well insulated on the inside or it is a boiler in all spaces. It occurs to me that this silo could now be in a homeowner association and this is the owner’s way of complying with the asinine rules of the association.


40 posted on 08/05/2014 10:39:22 AM PDT by miele man
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