You know, this apartment is a lot better than ours!
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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Embracing serfdom. . .
I agree. I would love a tiny home as long as I had a 2+ acre back yard! :)
You know, this apartment is a lot better than ours!
Americans also are “making their lives simpler” by not working. Who cares about having money to live at more than a subsistence level? Live off Food Stamps and spend your “leisure time” reading and doing other fun things. Fun-employment!!!
Very afforable 48 month payment plans available
I don’t think people living off food stamps read, many probably can’t.
Yeah but they are 100 times better made than mobile homes.
I've also noticed that lots of folks are building "small" houses around here. One living room two baths two bedrooms and a kitchen and a big porch (usually the porch goes all the way around the house)
If people want to live in such a way I am all for it. But around here the law states you must build a house a size that is waaaay bigger than most of these tiny houses. Which makes no sense to me.
Of course when you realize the bigger the house the bigger the property tax, then it all falls in to place.
There are a ton of old houses around here. One of them has a tiny kitchen-living room area and a tiny bathroom-bedroom and that is it.
Serfdom is here folks. The elites love this.
I was curious to see what these things actually cost so I went to the website of the builder. They START at 60K, if I understood correctly! The builder must just wake up laughing.
I assume most of these are purchased by parents of the people pictured.
If you shut off the central heat and air, an already-built bigger house is no more expensive than a tiny one. Well, aside from the taxes that is. :-)
I lived in a small camp in VT and I hate to clean. There are small cabins with a loft (3 bedroom) with a living room/kitchen area. Really sweet. I’d rather be outside anyway. It’s a matter of what we need as opposed to what we want. I’ll have a mansion to invite thousands of brothers and sisters to visit, later.
2 Kings 6:26b Elisha: “Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female servants?”
They look like the real thing at first glance, but I see a wood door. I’ll be the insides have electricity, indoor plumbing and white man’s furniture, right?
The problem, at least where I live in So Cal, is that no developer builds less than two stories, six bedrooms, four bathrooms anymore. For the middle class. You spend all your income on a place to sleep. You’re never there because you commute to a job where you work all the overtime you can get to pay for it.
Alternatives are limited. A three-bedroom house will be at least 50 years old and in bad shape. The entire neighborhood will be in a state of similar deterioration. So will the schools. And not everyone is capable of pouring a new foundation in a fixer.
The tiny house movement is definitely trendy... but there are also clear-thinking people involved who are taking financial responsibility for themselves. They can’t pay for a 4 car garage and a restaurant kitchen, but they don’t want their kids riding bikes on a dicey street.
I’m not mad at anyone trying to get off the hamster wheel of too much house for too much money.
In “Going Galt” we went from our house in the DC suburbs to about a 1200 s.f. cabin in the mountains. But, my barn is about 7,000 s.f, and our other group of buildings is about a thousand s.f. Just about right, but still we wrestle with our several hundred boxes of books.
If people want to live in big houses, let them work for and buy big houses.
If people want to live in little houses, let them work for and live in little houses.
If government officials and their enablers want to use taxes, regulations and other social engineering tools to force people to live in little houses treat them like the tyrants they are.
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