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his wanking den
Don’t you need planning permission?
the cheapest way to live is in a small class b or c rv!
Someone said ‘looks like a doghouse’ ….I’d rather live in a doghouse and be debt free and have the freedom to live my life and be with my family than wake up one day when I’m 70 and realize I missed my life and my children’s lives paying for excess I was to busy to enjoy.
You want your kids to think outside the box. So you build them a box to live in. Very interesting.
@cramsa — The additional problem that comes with a traditonal home glued to the land house is that you must rent it from the local tax office for the rest of your life. Plus the taxes continue to go up. While you still pay taxes on a lot or small acreage the taxes can be very low like mine at less than $60 per year or $5/week. I used to stay on BML land out west for free but it still cost some money since I had to move every two weeks or each time they told me to. There are many that do this.
@REGreenTeam 14 x 28 is more than enough space for living. My first home was a small converted building that measured only 16×24. I loved it, but unfortunately the owner (a relative) didn’t want me to live there any longer. They had other plans for it.
I bought a 14×28 storage type building from the local Mininites and that looks like a home for just $5400 and they delivered it to my lot about 70 miles away and set it in concrete block. It has 2×4 studded walls 16 inch on centers, T-11 siding and a metal roof. It was last years model I got 2 free windows and flower boxes. I have slowly added wiring, insulation and plumbing over the last two years. Since I have paid cash I have paid no interest to the loan shark. NO DEBT !
I love standing up when I’m sleeping!!!
~ Great place for Frat Parties !
@penguinistas
Really? My values are indistinguishable from Mao’s, or Bin Laden’s?
I am at a loss, I can’t begin to fathom what your point is. Help me understand what you are trying to say. Please write down what you think paradise on earth should be.
@deezynar You’ve made an argument for putting everyone in glass bubble lined cages to protect them from themselves.
If anyone’s freedoms can be sacrificed in the name of the corporate or greater good regarding one thing then you’ve given way the farm to the corporate good in all things, as a similar argument can be made for just about anything (food, drinking, smoking, property)
And if you appeal to “reasonable” then I ask you… whose version of reasonable? Hitler’s? Mao’s? Osama Bin Laden’s?
@penguinistas
At first blush, I’d agrre w/ you 100%. But here’s the rub, we are all linked to each other morally and financially. If you ruin your health w/ booze, cigarettes, drugs, over eating, you name it, the other folks who have insurance w/ your insurance provider will all pay for your medical care. Plus, if you ruin your health, your family & friends suffer. Freedom is great, but if folks don’t care about how their actions affect their neighbors, it creates hell on earth.
@deezynar housing laws make one man subject to another. Some people can’t afford your house and it’s not my place or yours to tell them what kind of house to live in.
People have a right to liberty, even if that liberty is seen by some to put them in harms way. People are free to smoke till their lugs turn black. to drink till their liver turns to rock, and to eat till their heart gives out. That is their right
It’s evil to make one man subject to another because you don’t like his home.
@deezynar you dodged the question, and now you you are making wild claims (what evidence do you have that code built houses are less likely to burn down because of a stove top fire?)
And of course it’s better to make thousands of people live under bridges, letting them die of exposure. We just couldn’t let them live in a house that was not built to an arbitrary bureaucratic code (it might lower our property values).
You do not have even the least fear of God.
@deezynar You are appealing to fires caused by earthquakes as a justification for government regulation???
Why???
Can the government “ban” earthquakes or fires caused by ruptured gas lines?
On the contrary, government regulations harm and kill people
For example, California residents have reported that the only reason wildfires DID NOT consume their home was because they cleared the area around their home as a fire break zone in blatant VIOLATION of environmental regulations.
@penguinistas
Have you heard about the Chicago fire, or the San Francisco fire? Read about them, you’ll see that the public was upset that fire could spread so fast and far.
@penguinistas
A house that’s built to code will be less likely to burn down from a stovetop fire.
@penguinistas
In my state a person can build their own house. They need to submit plans to show they intend to follow the codes & zoning laws. Then they get it inspected as they build to prove they are building it per plan.
I don’t know what other states allow.
@deezynar As brought up the: your house burning down makes it my business theme, then we must regulate things like cooking, smoking and appliances.
Cooking is the leading cause of home fires. Should we license cooking?
I seems that “faulty wiring” fires are mainly from abused extension & power cords, not that the home wiring was poorly installed. Do we ban appliances?
And smoking goes without saying.
Unless your willing to regulate those things then safety is a justification not a reason.
@deezynar By your “It’s also a product” argument then it should be illegal for anyone who is not a certified mechanic to be able to fix their own car as they may fix their car wrong. And… as it’s also a product that can be resold, then by your argument, non-professionals should be banned from fixing their own cars too.
The same draconian argument can be made for any of any number of things than can be resold, thus you have subjected every citizen to government imposed slavery.
@deezynar I’ve never heard any credible evidence that shows that the public wants more government intrusion into their lives.
Where are the massive public demonstrations “demanding” more government control and intrusion? Remembering that government regulations created the housing crisis by forcing banks to loan money to people with bad credit, I doubt it.
The your house burning down affecting me argument is bogus. Should alcohol be illegal because drunk drivers kill 25,000 people annually?
@penguinistas
In this case, government regulates construction because the citizens demand that it does.
Have you heard the old saying, “Your freedom stops at the tip of my nose”? If your house burns down & catches my house on fire, your crummy wiring job has become my business. Building codes have evolved because the public has demanded that government provide protection from shoddy construction. In some ways codes have gone overboard, but they do save lives & investments.
@deezynar You’re under the false belief that government can regulate anything it wants. The Constitution guarantees (as the declaration of independence says) that we have a right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness
Having been to Africa and seen the poverty: cities full of tin shacks, villages full of thatches huts, would you rob them of what little they have? That’s how tyrants talk, and it’s evil
I will defend everyone’s right to fight a government imposed view of what is a house
@penguinistas
Your argument is quite common but it fails to consider a very significant point, a house is not merely where you live, it’s also a product. No one spends all the time and money to build a house w/ the idea that they’ll tear it down when they decide to move. Everyone fully intends to sell it when they move on. Government regulates house construction mostly to protect the guy you sell to.