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"Man, is there something in the air right now that’s causing everyone to shit on tiny houses? First Steve Harvey, you, various other blogger backlash…it is fascinating to me, how personally some people take this. \r\n\r\nNot everyone has this mentality that, as they go through life and accumulate money, they need to move up and into progressively larger houses because shit, that’s just what “most people” do. Some people really do enjoy living simply. Me, I find too much stuff stressful. I don’t want to be responsible for a large structure, and the cleaning and upkeep of such. (Both of these attitudes were heavily influenced by my parents’ endless chasing of The Bigger, Nicer House, including four moves in the space of five years. Now I balk at owning anything more than I could fit into the smallest U Haul truck).\r\n\r\nEven if I could afford a larger home, I still wouldn’t buy or live in one because I think it would be wasteful. I’m opting out of the bigger = better mentality. This seems to genuinely puzzle or even annoy others. Or they judge me as “privileged” which, HAHAHAHA, that is too funny, hold on while I dry my tears of mirth on my unemployment checks and overdue health insurance bills.\r\n\r\nAnyway, I don’t get it, why some people are so bothered by others’ exercising their free choice of where and how they want to live. Is it because the idea of purposely wanting to live small flies in the face of the capitalist dogma we’ve been taught is the American Dream? Hey, I think people wanting bigger houses than they strictly need is crazy, but I’m not going to shame someone for buying that McMansion. Even if it is an ecological nightmare. \r\n\r\nGranted, the people on this show sound particularly clueless, but that’s definitely not the norm when it comes to tiny houses. I’ve been following the tiny house movement for a few years now, and I’ve never met anyone who didn’t know exactly what they were getting into, and were 100% on board with it. Maybe now that tiny houses are the new industrial lofts, we’re going to see a bunch of yahoos who only vaguely know what tiny living consists of buying $60,000 houses, just to freak out the first time they have to change the compost toilet. Maybe they will sell me their tiny house for cheap.\r\n\r\nThe only thing that I dislike about tiny houses is, as you point out, if you buy them from a builder (versus DIYing one, which plenty of people do), then they are expensive. That is the only thing that is stopping me from building one right now; I’m barely managing rent and bills and such, and I do not have thousands of dollars to put into a superfluous structure. It is a valid point that many of the people who would most benefit from a tiny house can’t actually afford to live in one. \r\n\r\nBut, geez, I should would like to."
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