This woman lives in a tiny house in the British Columbian wilderness

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That always sounds like something they’d use on the Millennium Falcon to hide the smuggling compartments. :sunglasses:

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You have to pay dock fees most places to live on a boat.

Except places like Miami. Lots of people living on boats there.

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There can be some tension between a tiny house in the woods and the industrialized world:

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Looks like BoingBoing has figured out that they don’t actually need to do any of the work critiquing other people’s housing choices, and that the comments will do it for them.

ANYBODY: I occupy shelter.
BBS: OH YOU DO, HUH?

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Not tiny enough.
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I finally found this other one I like, by Eric Stolz’s younger more handsome brother;

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Now we’re talking! Price no object I’d be looking at something like this: https://mbs.mercedes-benz.com/en/special-trucks/allterrain-mobile-homes/the-unimog-is-comfort-on-wheels.html

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Your snark is a cop-out and a logical fallacy, all too common these days. A way to place yourself above the fray without contributing meaningfully to the debate, and managing to demean others, who debase themselves so, in one fell swoop. Criticizing a particular brand of toothpaste does not mean you are against dental hygiene in totum.

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Your snark is a cop-out and a logical fallacy, all too common these days. A way to place yourself above the fray without contributing meaningfully to the debate, and managing to demean others, who debase themselves so , in one fell swoop.

Uh… I don’t want to contribute at all to this debate. There aren’t many frays I consider myself above, but boy howdy, this is one.

“Demean” is a strong word, but yes, some criticism was intended, mostly at this genre of post about people who dare to have lifestyle X when others might prefer lifestyle Y. (Here’s a good example.)

If it will help you to hear me say it, I wasn’t thinking of you specifically.

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Yet you did, no offence, but by my take in a haughty sort of way.

Thanks but I don’t need any special reassurance; I’m a big boy. I’d prefer to be disagreed with, or even insulted, than gaslighted. And for the record, my criticism is not with a particular “housing choice”, or a lifestyle preference. It is with a video that, under the guise of being informative, glamorizes a certain lifestyle without properly educating the viewer about its’ true realities and costs. Peace.

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boiling the wash is an old time way of getting the clothes clean, she likely just picked that up when she couldn’t hook up her clothes washer and doesn’t necessarily indicate water safety awareness. it’s just a really easy way to do laundry in the woods.

i have always lived an active outdoor lifestyle in mountain wilderness, and had giardia multiple times.
looking at that water and watching her drink it like that made me cringe for her sake, only out of empathy.

i love that she is living in a tiny home in a natural setting, i aspire to something similar at some point.
i think it is fantastic she’s living the alternative dream.

i think most of them end up parked perm as a second rental “mother in law” houses behind other homes.
they don’t increase your primary property equity, but they can be a supplemental rent to a younger couple or professional to helping offset the primary mortgage, and the wheels get around certain building code issues and property structure limits.

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I’m also thinking of usefulness in case one lives in flood-prone areas, as a long-term emergency shelter that you could take with you. Strictly for those who could manage to tow it, of course.

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