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Thank you! I am actually completely content living in a 4 season canvas tent + propane heat and would rather build my own little cabin on-site than pay 60k for a 'tiny home' (glorified shed IMO lol) I also download most of my entertainment to hard drive and have lots of offline games and ebooks (and other hobbies that don't involve the internet) so as long as I can go to the library every month or two and stock up on entertainment with their wifi ill be happy as peaches! Not everyone is willing to give up modern convinence like I am, very grateful to be able to live cheap and minimal.
I was looking at that and it's so annoying how many cities ban living on property you own like that.
Cause honestly everyone living in trailers on bits of property until land lords get foreclosed on feel like our best bet. But so many places are like nooo you gotta live in a 500k house. We would rather the lot be empty than you have a little camper trailer you live in on it.
Oh yeah absolutely was just told a story about a family who built a little tiny house for elderly parent instead of nursing home. They drew up design blueprint, got the specs, had it all professionally drafted and built to code, and then they are told to tear it all down because it was 200sqft less than minimum requirements. Like 1. why didn't they tell them that before it was approved by city and 2. come on show a little humanity even if its not exact code any reasonable person would look at that and go whatever good enough. When you can't do what you want with your property without jumping through a dozen buracratic hoops, it isn't really your property in anything but name IMO.
Also IDK where you live but over here where I am theres abandoned shopping malls EVERYWHERE left to rot. I say we should spend some tax dollars to renovate them and their big ass lots and turn them into homeless shelters/ extremely low cost living areas. No they would rather them just rot if they aren't making any money.
If more people lived with that sort of style, they wouldn't even have to give up modern conveniences. If there was higher demand, there could be development to increase internet accessibility in residences like that, better equipment for cooking and plumbing, insulation, etc. There could be modular small dwellings easy to build, like the way people used to get Sears home plans and lumber delivered and build their own house.