ah yes, non-traditional housing as vehicles and cardboard structures.
something insidious as hell about the US in the post war era is how broke people can’t even cobble together something to live in like they did during the depression. and they may claim the bans are due to safety, but far fewer fucks are given about shady, substandard/dangerous housing with mold etc when theres a landlord.coplecting a check.
the ban is 100% about how slums make the ruling class and their administrators look bad.
[x] may seem like a way to save money, but it can come with unexpected costs and trap families in a cycle of debt.
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Historically, when stressed, Americans would just move west. The great Pressure Release Valve: free real estate.
But now there’s no more
Capitalism needs its periphery.
Actually existing fascism @redsails
we’re definitely not in a recession tho
That’s true. Looks like a full blown depression ahead.
would be nice if this wasnt also commercialized as a “lifestyle” and sold at a premium. now instead of poor people living in rvs and tiny houses, rich people buy them and live in them temporarily while never shutting up about how scrappy they are for it
“we converted a bus into a house:)” no your wealth paid a worker to convert a bus into a house
America is such a land of innovation we invent new ways of being homeless
i dunno, how much innovation does it need to build favelas out of cars? i mean, it’s very american, yes, but innovative?
I’ve seen homeless RVs with jumper cables attached to street light access panels. Now THATS innovation
This feels pretty traditionally hobo to me
Didn’t know the rent in RV park costed 550
Can people have gaming PCs in RVs?
If you have a powerful enough inverter - problem’s more cooking yourself as ~1500 watts is a space heater. In the winter it’s 2 for 1 though.
My room is on the sunny side of the house. In the summer I gnash my teeth and shit and piss myself because my computer keeps my room 10 degrees hotter than anywhere else in the house. In the winter, I smile and laugh and dance with cherubs because my computer keeps my room 10 degrees hotter.
The cycle must continue, same as it ever was.
I mean just because you live in a camper doesn’t mean you don’t have grid access. Most people moving to these are living in a park with RV hookups.
1500W? A PC while gaming should be closer to 500W, right? My GPU and CPU together don’t pull 300W and I can play 2k 100Hz
Modern hardware is incredibly power hungry - to squeeze marginal gains out of hardware they’re being pushed to the power hungry side of operation. On the high end a 5090 and an intel 285 / 265 is 825 watt TDP nominal before other hardware.
On that note, you can significantly reduce power consumption by undervolting your hardware. Everything is overclocked out of the box.
I wouldn’t expect someone living in a trailer to own a 5090.
Yeah, my Ryzen 5700X is undervolted, I was thinking about undervolting my RX6800
You should be using a heat pump instead of a space heater anyway, though.
Yeah why not?
I don’t know about RVs, but people are doing amazing things with Cargo Vans
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It’s an interesting phenomenon. In other countries, weakly defined property rights and the lack of wealth means that people built slums in the marginal areas around cities. In the US, people are much wealthier in an absolute sense, and pretty much all land is enclosed and defended by psychotically strong property rights. Because of that, marginal housing is taking the form of living in vehicles to keep mobile… or rough sleeping / tents for those who are extremely poor in an absolute sense, and can’t afford a vehicle.
It’s illegal to occupy space in America without proof of purchase
the tiny home trend was kind of an extension of this to me. while yes there are valid reasons to downsize from McMansions to maybe just what we need but no one ever mentioned it’s because they’ve been priced out of the housing market.
eh, if you watch tiny house tours on youtube, a bunch of them mention that this way they’re mortgage free and get to have savings. some mentioned that the only way they can afford to do this is cos they have a friend or some family member who owns land and allowed them to put the tiny house on it for free/very cheap.
the real kicker is tiny house communities. which are trailer parks for downwardly mobile “middle class” people.
Its sad that many of these will end up posting memes about ‘communist housing units being monotonous or depressng’ when this is basically a shanty town. And hell the cost adds up to more than a shanty
It doesn’t help that Americans are generally terrible neighbors, and sharing a wall with them is even worse. This causes people to seek larger and larger spaces for themselves exclusively, and makes almost all apartment style living infeasible.
Gee who could have predicted that an individualist society would eventually result in everyone being a shitty person
also that american houses tend to have thinner walls with less sound insulation (than europe, i dunno about the rest of the world), which compounds the problem. not that we dont hear our neighbors here in europe. we just make do.
Next they’ll talk about the new Gen Z trend of living in caves.
Liek travelers in Ireland.
