Micro-houses are cool. The minimal cost and maintenance is really appealing. Having to do it because everything else is unaffordable is not.
It’s even worse now that boutique builders are making tiny homes with aged cheddar wood and once in a century nails and crap. Houses in general should have never been made financial investments. It’s shelter.
Serious question: What ought to be a financial investment? Nothing? Points that are otherwise worthless?
Anything that is meant to be consumed should not be an investment, anything that in an ideal society should be cheaper to purchase for the betterment of that society, should not be an investment.
Companies that produce those things, ideally better or more efficient every year for various reasons, those should be investments.
We should invest in banana farmers, not bananas. Likewise we should invest in construction companies, not houses.
Why do you think you need to invest in anything? It’s a gamble or a guarantee depending on the amount of money someone has at the beginning. If you’re rich your money will make money without producing anything. If you’re poor you might lose it all. This idea that you need to invest benefits the rich far more then the poor.
I don’t; nothing was one of the expected answers.
Nothing sounds pretty good to me
Why should you be able to take your extra money to generate more extra money for later? Maybe if that wasn’t an option, more people would spend that money on themselves or their community
This has so much more context needed. Like the dude is getting the land for free as a sorta art piece and doesn’t, or didn’t plan to do it long.
Good for him, I guess, but … I wouldn’t want to live in that POS even if you paid me. These stories are so frustrating because they start to normalize that living in a shoebox is normal. It isn’t. It’s terrible.
Well considering the Western world’s comforts are here for us at the cost of poverty everywhere else. Hum idk maybe this should be a start in a moderate society.
One that has no rich fucks but also doesn’t have poverty
Living in a dumpster is the very fucking definition of poverty.
Plenty of people around the world would give just about anything to live in something like this.
For us yes ofc. I mean for the rest of the world wich is where my point fits.
But then we are entering in something that’s too radical for today, I’ve rarely had support when I point out borders are weird and kinda should disappear
Lot of poverty in the western world and lot of excessive wealth ‘everywhere else’.
Not really. Wealth is not a zero sum game.
Wealth is not a zero sum game.
The way it’s being treated, it absolutely is.
Kinda dystopian and depressing, but honestly some parts of it seem nicer than the houses he’s neighbours with. I like how it’s designed to not interfere with the skip lorry’s cab.
E: How much is the porta potty rental?
How much is the porta potty rental?
I watched the video through and he says he gets it free and they empty it every week or so. I suppose it’s good advertising for the company.
Why am I worried that some asshole developer is going to buy that little triangle of land out from under him, kick him off, and then just leave it unused for years. Maybe that sort of thing doesn’t happen in the UK, but it sure AF would happen in the states.
From the article
“The land was granted to him by an arts charity called Antepavilion”
He owns it the land. Doesn’t stop the government from doing an eminent domain claim I guess but if they do he’s going to get more than it’s worth
No, the art charity owns the land. They just let him use it.
My electricity bill is so small that it is included in my land sponsorship,
Ah ok. I misinterpreted what “granted” meant
That’s good. Thanks!
Everything about this is a nightmare.
I never thought watching Sesame Street when I grew up that Oscar the Grouch is the future.
He’s got a nice sized lot there - could fit any number of more conventional options, including multi-family
He can’t get a permit. He doesn’t need a permit for a dumpster. That’s the whole story.
The lot isn’t his, full stop.
So cool. I’m worried my house will be burgled. Surely he worries his house will be stolen? 😁
You just need to make it slightly harder to steal your house, when compared to the house next door.
It’s not a dumpster it’s a skip they’re different things.
A dumpster is basically something you put trash in. A skip is what you put building waste in (rubble, bits of drywall), so firstly it’s larger than you’re thinking, if you’re thinking of a dumpster. Seriously if you get in one it’s kind of hard to get back out again without somebody helping you, they go at least five foot up. Secondly he’s doing this to prove a point, and the point he’s trying to prove is that he’s a belligerent idiot, and he’s proving it very well. It’s not that homes in London are expensive, although they are, his “problem” is that what he wants to do isn’t legal (he wants to live in a caravan on that plot of land and it isn’t zoned for that), so he’s doing this instead as a loophole. It isn’t some protest against home prices in London or anything noble like that.
However the media lap it up and he’s quite happy to make use of it to further his cause of being an annoying pain.
Bro just live in a van. You can drive to different places and park for free.
It’s an art project.
Plus if he lived in a caravan, people would just assume he’s a traveller and have the council move him on.
If he really wants to help out, he should build 3 more of those with 3 more portable toilets and find a better source for water. That plot of land is more than enough to hold more density.
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A few years back i remember reading on quora that you can rent a single bedroom apartment for $400 easily there. looks like times have changed
Americans pretending other countries don’t have their own currency.
.com is a US commercial web domain. It makes sense for currencies to be converted to USD for a primarily US intended audience.
No, .com is an international tld and you can convert prices while still listing the original like any other countries news source would do.
You’re right about their first argument, but it is indeed a primarily American audience.
Imagine collecting and counting those $62 each month. The sense of accomplishment and contribution to society that must confer.
The society that put him there in the first place? Yeah, what a debt he owes to that benevolent system. Truly.
They are ragging on the landlord who considers this an acceptable way for someone to live. The key word of their post being “collecting”.
Do you live in a safe reality secured from the eventualities that the majority of the population exists in, or are you just packing up another bowl of hopium? Shit is fucked, and it’s quickly becoming norm. Step away from the pipe, fellow citizen.
