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In some portion of the world, it require 7-people-income to afford a house, as stated by this meme:


What's unfortunate, however, was this wasn't only a meme, but a real situation.

If I want to have a house of my own, I need to make my own harem. Unfortunately, it's unrealistic because... although I am so handsome that all the jade beauties will throws themselves at me whenever I made my presence known (humble), I am a faithful person who only love @TheMonotonePuppet

A while ago, I found an alternative: Container Housing.
The concept is you take a shipping container (typically 20 feet/6 meters or 40 feet/12 meters), and modify them into a place that could accommodate your daily life. If you need more space, you can add more box. It sound simple and it has its own shares of limitations, but at the very least, it is cheaper than buying a real house.

I'm not asking. I demand your opinion about container housing. What do you think is the pro-and-cons? Would you live there, or do you think container housing is cringe? If you're already living in one, pray tell of your experience, or if you're an iron worker, what should be concerned about container housing?
 
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I think there's a ton of ideas that could change people's lives that aren't being implemented for one reason or another. Container housing isn't one I would give as an example, but it definitely fits as one of them. I think it has only three major concerns (can't think of any more at the moment, at least) that are not related to human likes and preferences, all of which can be solved fairly easily.

Metal is a very poor insulator (like the very bottom of the list kind of poor, not poor among the better ones), so containers are really bad for cold or hot regions by themselves. That can be fixed fairly easily though; if we bunch a number of the containers, ten-ish at least, insulating it definitely wouldn't be cheap per se, but it would be less expensive and less difficult than insulating a house because of the simplicity - no slanted roofs, no large windows making thermal bridges (not sure that's the right word, tling directly from my language here), uniform sizes.

Speaking of size, while it could be a problem if we want open space, bunching the containers is just the solution unless we want it for something very specific.

The second thing is durability, which is not ideal, but it's not an issue lo long as we're not in areas susceptiple to natural disasters. On a related note, many people would say corrosion is an issue. Yes it is in the long term, but there's a reason those containers survive out in the open salty ocean. They are made out of strong, corrosion resistant steel, not some flimsy iron.

The third thing is how tightly you can pack them, which is related to durability, but it's also not a real issue unless we reach absurd values. Considering you can easily stack three on top each other, some simple math shows you can easily fit 20000-40000 (!) of them on a square kilometer of flat ground with plenty of space to spare. That should be easily enough to house ~3-5k people with all amenities they would need, like shops and services.

And aesthetics of metal crates, well, those are just preferences, and if someone doesn't like how the crates looks, it's very simple to fix that.
 
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Ima build my house, buy cheap land. Cultivate it and live there. Die off grid over my anvil
 
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Corty said:
I have no experience, but I see no problems with it.

My dream would be to live on a modified bus or train. Especially the latter.
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Honestly, same.

Me and my brother have some talk regarding this due to our unrealistic future of owning a house. We think that having an RV would be great since we can also use them to travel my country, but I'm sure it has its own pro and cons as well. Still, it's a cool concept to have a mobile home or a home adopted from a vehicle or storage facility, I would love to have a cozy little house of any kind if possible.
 
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Sola-sama said:
Honestly, same.

Me and my brother have some talk regarding this due to our unrealistic future of owning a house. We think that having an RV would be great since we can also use them to travel my country, but I'm sure it has its own pro and cons as well. Still, it's a cool concept to have a mobile home or a home adopted from a vehicle or storage facility, I would love to have a cozy little house of any kind if possible.
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Cozy is always better than spacious, in my opinion. I would be a good little hobbit, too. I grew up in a typical soviet block housing. 50ish square meters. Maybe that's why I would never get comfortable with the idea of having a full house and taking care of it all.
 
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I'd live in one, it'd be a considerable step up. Power, water, sewer, cable, windows/lighting -- all would need to be installed. Plus a decently progressive town/city/county board to allow/inspect, & equally flexible neighborhood homeowners association if any (might worry it would drive down property values). Mobile home parks would likely not allow them, they're pretty tightly regulated. Watched a video of one installed underground as a sort of bomb shelter, interesting & gets around heating/cooling issue at price of owning the land. A garage would need to be wider, you need space to open the car doors -- a 20 for workshop/storage & a carport?
 
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What happened to everyone living in their parent's basement? Did that go out of fashion?
 
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Sola-sama said:
In some portion of the world, it require 7-people-income to afford a house, as stated by this meme:


What's unfortunate, however, was this wasn't only a meme, but a real situation.

If I want to have a house of my own, I need to make my own harem. Unfortunately, it's unrealistic because... although I am so handsome that all the jade beauties will throws themselves at me whenever I made my presence known (humble), I am a faithful person who only love @TheMonotonePuppet

A while ago, I found an alternative: Container Housing.
The concept is you take a shipping container (typically 20 feet/6 meters or 40 feet/12 meters), and modify them into a place that could accommodate your daily life. If you need more space, you can add more box. It sound simple and it has its own shares of limitations, but at the very least, it is cheaper than buying a real house.

I'm not asking. I demand your opinion about container housing. What do you think is the pro-and-cons? Would you live there, or do you think container housing is cringe? If you're already living in one, pray tell of your experience, or if you're an iron worker, what should be concerned about container housing?
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Not going to lie, container housing sounds really nice. I could really use that. Would make my life SO much easier. Might be able to afford college a lot easier if I can just deposit a shipping container with my stuff near places with more jobs available to my driver-license-less ass. Be better than my summer renting location. 450$ to stay with 3 others in one room.
My opinion is that I totally would live there!
Also, LMFAO! That joke is so REAL! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
 
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