11 Mar 2021, 6:46 pm
Perfect.
I want one.
11 Mar 2021, 8:25 pm
Prince Charles would think it would make a marvellous idea for cellar to house his "excess" wine (poor fellow has been using his $1000 bottles as biofuel for his Aston Martin).
11 Mar 2021, 10:49 pm
11 Mar 2021, 11:41 pm
Most probably wouldn’t—but the hard-core mentally ill-drug addict might. Some might seek to sell the container material for scrap money to feed their habits.
This is realism.
I suspect there would be some stipulations in place to prevent selling the container, also from the look in some of the pictures they would be stacked into more of a building anyways...someone would certainly notice if someone was trying to scrap out their container.
Some hard core more mentally ill drug addicted may need more like a treatment facility than a shipping container unit though. But yeah sure there is the risk a more unstable person could cause damage to a unit, but then again they are supposed to be cost efficient so presumably it shouldn't be too devastating if a few trash their unit.
They would have to be extremely cost-efficient.
If it's more cost efficient than having them remain in the streets in tents, then that should be sufficient that said I don't think that would be as big a problem as some would be concerned about. Desperation brings out the worst in people a roof over your head does a lot to reduce that.
To be clear, I was saying they sound like a good idea.
11 Mar 2021, 11:44 pm
Everyone should have someplace to live. And the tiny house designs make it possible for a very nice home to be made with just a few hundred square feet.
They are called 'Terrace Houses' over here.
11 Mar 2021, 11:46 pm
Perfect.
Looks cool.
It is underground.
Of course, it is 'Cool'.
11 Mar 2021, 11:56 pm
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12 Mar 2021, 1:27 am
There’s a couple sites with stacked shipping container housing for homeless/hard to house pplin Vancouver. AFAIK they’ve been a great success. People have homes, cheap/fast etc. There’s a building manager and social workers that make sure the places don’t get trashed/become a magnet for criminal activity.
Real estate varies a lot here. Some people rent <100sf bedrooms or even just a couch to sleep on in a divided living room, others live in 10-20k sf mansions.
I live in a fairly typical suburban house in a decent neighbourhood. 3 person household, 3200sf on a tiny property.
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Dark.
Damn!
How did I miss that?!
You would make a great politician.
You can't trust pollies.
'Soylent Green' anyone?
12 Mar 2021, 10:42 am
12 Mar 2021, 10:46 am
Their appearance reminds me of the "Cubist" movement of the early 20th Century...
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12 Mar 2021, 5:49 pm
Perfect.
Looks cool.
It is underground.
Of course, it is 'Cool'.
The only people burying shipping containers here are growing/manufacturing drugs in them. Never heard of anyone burying one for any other reason.
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13 Mar 2021, 2:19 am
Houses don’t have root cellars here. Almost none. I’d imagine there are not very many root cellars near sea level where it rains a lot.
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