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[–] 25 points 3 hours ago

Young people “love” them because it’s a house they can afford. They’d “love” a regular house if they could afford one.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Put house on truck

    Profit!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 hours ago

    Americans will do anything but build terraces.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

    I think that might be the most American photographer ever taken.

    What is the point in building teeny tiny homes if they're going to be placed six feet apart and have no private space. The whole point of a small compact house is it leaves space over for communal stuff. This feels like an American visited Europe and completely failed grasp the point.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

    The whole point of a small compact house is it leaves space over for communal stuff.

    What? The whole point is saving money, and smaller land is cheaper...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    If that is so, what is the point of all that unusable wasted space around thise buildings, other than law requiring it for some randomreasons?

    Without that, those buildings could either have high quality outside space that could be used for gardening or a terrace or the area could be reduced.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    The point is for the developer to capitalize on the hype and fomo. Yes, most likely just enough space to meet property setbacks and utility easement requirements.

    They squeeze the most "houses" in the lot as they can.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (2 children)

    If they are in Texas then it's 43C outside and 95% humidity, so you don't go outside for anything if you don't have to.

    Also these are just apartments that are actually apart. So, basically just really inefficient apartments.

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  • [–] 30 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    Yeah... well, maybe if you didn't spend $60k on a truck and another $10k on a lift kit, you could afford a normal-sized house.

    The hell do you need a lifted F-250 for?! You're not hauling anything, you're not towing anything, and that lift kit just ruined whatever practical use the truck had in the first place.

    So you've got a 6,000-pound grocery-getting overcompensation machine that's somehow less useful than the truck was before you modified it.

    Congratulations. You spent $70k to make a work truck worse at doing work.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago

    You know when I feel the most manly? When I successfully load my Kia Soul EV with groceries from Costco AND manage to get all four of my kids in there as well. A big pick-up truck is just cheating.

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  • [–] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Looks like the house fits on that truck's bed

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  • [–] 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    People love them??!!! WTF! When I was a kid in rural South America we would pitty people who's house was not solid brick and had side walk. "Hay pobrecitos".

    That frame of mind as my "shades" that I see the world thru tell me that this is wrong. Micro houses should be for anyone who really truly wants one... For people in the middle of nowhere that need some sleep tonight. For the homeless who lost a job or got an expensive disease. ETC. Not for regular people in the city with good jobs.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but it's better than being unable to own a house for a lot of people. It's absolutely not for me, I'm far more inclined towards a townhouse if possible, but I'm an engineer who wants to live in a more urban area.

    Houses have gotten ludicrously expensive compared to what people can afford in America. This is partly because housing is seen as an investment and so any policy that reduces housing cost will take a good chunk out of the wealth of a large portion of the population.

    But yeah the talks of extending home loans past 30 years is just egregious

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    Housing as an investment is a problem. But so is having kids. Each kid needs a house until we die. So at least one extra house. When we die they get the other but then they'll have the same problem... Kids.. And where to house them.

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  • [–] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    I saw these on YouTube shorts. They are insanely expensive. Maybe not for that area, but I ny small town of 400k in the Midwest it's more than or equal to a full size house morgage.

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  • [–] 4 points 21 hours ago

    I saw something similar on youtube about japanese inspired micro-apartments to create affordable living for the masses... the rent was like 1800-2500. Which is not affordable anything for anyone but the top 1%, who'd never lower themselves to living in 50 square feet.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago

    Young ppl love that they get any home at all. It's nobody's preference.

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago

    Everyone in this thread not realizing that the post is about living in a truck.

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    If I wasn’t married with kids and grandkids, i would unironically love this. Small area to clean, necessities in one place. The fuck are y’all doing that you need a fucking gymnasium of space to live in? Think of how much less clutter and cleaning you’d have to deal with!

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    [–] 1 point 18 hours ago*

    I’m guessing the truck might fit in a driveway, although the driveways seem short and it might block the sidewalk a bit. Can’t tell.

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  • that atrocity of a truck is missing its nuts.

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  • [–] 96 points 1 day ago (14 children)

    The only thing they "love" about them is they can potentially afford one.

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    [–] 113 points 1 day ago (6 children)
    • are they living directly under a bunch of power lines?
    • too close together
    • looks both mass produced and cobbled together
    • weird house numbers
    • the truck seems to be labeled in some non-Latin alphabet

    I guess the latter points to LLMs...

    Did some sleuthing, came up with these:
    https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2024/02/13/lennar-builder-tiny-home-elm-trails-sales-success.html
    https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2023/04/19/lennar-tiny-homes-100-k-east-side-elm-trails.html

    Who stole the pic from the last article and put a truck in it while also messing up the house numbers?

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago

    The pickup? Why, that's a Ford F350 H3X Powerstroke, heavy on the stroke!

    Ford F250/F350 body (illegible fender badge). H3 of Hummer + X of Toyota PRO-4X = H3X (Ford FX4 package also has a red X though). Illegible "Powerstroke" on door (their diesel brand name, gas does not get a badge).

    "Yeah, AI knows everything. It definitely knows precisely how big a Ferd Fiftyhundred would look at these houses". Good catch. Anything but the metric system.

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    [–] 35 points 1 day ago

    Stop buying big trucks, assholes!

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