Re:Jupe: Off-grid shelters that pop up anywhere on Earth
by cyberax on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:02PM
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Nope. You can buy perfectly good land suitable for habitation for about the same money. I have bought a 100 acre lot with a freaking stream, lake, and a small forest for about $180k. There's even a gravel road to the nearest highway, and it's just 40 minutes away from a fairly large settlement and 2 hours away from a major city.
This is just insane that people keep buying overpriced condos for $2 million apiece in cities, when they can have their own private park.
Re:Jupe: Off-grid shelters that pop up anywhere on Earth
by bluenomatterwho on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:59AM
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Methinks the kind of financial 'sophistication' which systemically leads to $2 million dollar luxury apartments does not foster the type of person who wants to deal with paying a manager to manage the staff to maintain a personal estate. Yes, I'm kidding, as they certainly wouldn't do these things themselves. Something something about the 'Apollonian' and the 'Mercurial'.
I looked at a lot of these properties. The land is poorly graded, the drainage and soil quality is poor (Will fail a perc test), roads are terrible and wash out, and rural communities often lack basic services. I'm not talking entertainment, I mean your nearest grocery store is a Chevron Gas Station 30 miles away.
A lot more engineering and planning goes into making land livable than simply plopping a house on it and calling it a day.