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"This person's response is self-praising, but not all that smart. Here are few points the author didn't consider:\r\n\r\n1) Most of tiny house people actually do have to live tiny, because their normal house got foreclosed or they lost everything due to illness or divorce or any other of the million reasons why people can hurt financially.\r\n\r\n2) There is an entire category of US citizens living like this pretty much permanently without going on a killing spree - retired folks living in RVs. Nobody spends their energy writing up bullshit pseudo-comical letters to RV owners. Think about tiny houses as customizable RVs.\r\n\r\n3) For many it's a temporary solution to \"I don't quite know where I'll settle\" problem, because rather than moving all their crap from house to house, they prefer to move their crap with the house. They'll end up parking it on their property a decade down the road and rent it out at airBnB for extra cash and/or use it as a guest bedroom/house.\r\n\r\n4) We've got too much stuff. That closet you write about - that only fits a dress they will bury you in? It certainly fits more than my backpack and I managed to live out of that comfortably for one full year. An average American buys 64 pieces of clothing a year. Here's a news flash: you've only got one ass!\r\n\r\n5) Normal toilets with proper doors and fans exist in small spaces - check out most of hotels and most of NYC apartments. And no, we don't partake in each other's dumps. And composting toilets aren't any more disgusting or difficult to operate than camper or RV set ups. You just have to do it and be responsible for your own shit, not rely on civilization to dump it for you in formerly clean oceans.\r\n\r\n6) Many people in the world live in far worse conditions. For many it's between privacy of their own 4 tiny walls vs living in their mom's basement. So yes, even if they end up parked on a relative's property - so fucking what? Extended families used to live together and help each other out in a time of need for millennia and all of sudden cocky baby-boomers decided that there was something shameful about it, simply because their generation was brainwashed to believe that a lifelong mortgage was more acceptable than living with one's own family.\r\n\r\nTiny houses is a form of shelter. They aren't for people who can afford to live in a full-size house but choose not to - the majority doesn't have a choice. Shelters protect and keep you warm. It's not something to mock, it's something to either admire or empathize with."
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