[C19fan]

These tiny houses are hipster versions of manufactured/mobile homes without the negative social stigma.

[GeronL]

Comnrades you vust live in zee apartment with 3 generations

[FlJoePa]

I tried to watch the awful television show the other night. All I kept thinking was that everyone involved was an idiot.

[a fool in paradise]

Pay to live in a prison cell. Oh boy.

[GeronL]

welcome to the future!

[Billthedrill]

A market trend is now a “movement”? On to victory, Comrades!

[demshateGod]

......and no one would have thought of them back when living well, in comfort were American ideals. The movement is foreboding. Incomes are dipping because of regulation, tax burden, and insurance costs. People are starting to consider lower standards of living as being noble. We’ll start hearing about more people skipping out on air conditioning and trips to the dentist.

[a fool in paradise]

Matt Damon's home in Florida is for sale.

What would Film Actors Guild pinkos say?

[ilgipper]

and my liberal friends are sharing this like its a good thing.

Our country is purposefully lowering our own standard of living - and are actually proud about the decision. What a bunch of fools.

[I cannot think of a name]

Not quite this extreme, but my wife and I did move down from a 3000 sq ft home to a 2100 sq ft. Not for any trendy reason, but simply because the more space we have, the more crap we accumulate. Moving to a smaller space really forced us donate or dump lots of stupid junk that I was surprised to find we had kept at all.

[Liberty Valance]

[ChildOfThe60s]

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.

[Sir Napsalot]

(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.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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! :)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

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

[cripplecreek]

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.

[arthurus]

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

[gspurlock]

Embracing serfdom. . .

[raccoonradio]

...but the house was TOO SMALL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lomy7xAVDKE

[EternalVigilance]

[Opinionated Blowhard]

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!!!