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"True enough, the folks on those shows can be pretty over the top, and the Tiny House notion often feels kind of overblown…\r\n\r\nbut it has to be said, it's an extreme reaction to an extreme situation. So many of us see our chances of owning a home, *any* home, dwindling into nothingness. We grew up in middle-class households in modest homes that, were they plopped wholesale into the neighborhood where I live, would cost a million dollars. I think for many the urge to have some kind of space that you can genuinely call your own, to not be beholden to a landlord for the rest of your natural life, is the impetus behind the tiny home movement. It may not be much (space), but it's *yours*.\r\n\r\nCouple that with a natural, and long overdue, recognition of the ecological burden of heating and cooling much-too-large houses, and of filling those houses with plastic junk as so many people did, and still do, and it's a bit more understandable. Ill advised in most cases, but understandable.\r\n\r\nAs with so many things, the reasonable path is somewhere in the middle, in a house that's the right size for actual needs and which has access to the sort of things that the residents want, be it a vegetable garden, play set for the kids, or a shop for making stuff. But I, and most of my debt-laden peers, can't afford even that either without moving somewhere we don't want to live. So we peruse tiny houses on our pinterests in our shoe-box apartments."
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