Thread about Tiny Homes in GD

[XemaSab]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3343224#3346593

[phantom power]

1. A likely variation on that theme is going to be multi-occupancy...

of McMansions. Because, we've gone and built them. They are now an ecological niche waiting to be filled. Suburbia will not exactly be "abandoned," so much as re-zoned. We'll have suburban houses turning into de-facto apartments, and others turning into de-facto businesses, offices, etc. I expect that first, existing zoning laws will simply be ignored, and maybe later they'll be officially updated. Or, maybe a bribery sub-economy will evolve, where people pay off the local officials to ignore the zoning laws for them.

[XemaSab]

2. The suburbs will be the ghettos of the future

:P

[phantom power]

3. I'd like to see us called "the fourth world."

We'll be like 3rd-world wannabes.

[GliderGuider]

4. "The wife and I dream of owning our own tarpaper shack in downtown Philly some day..."

"We really want to get out of the 'burbs -- between the moonshiners and the biodiesel operation up the road and all the goats on the old lawns, it just doesn't smell that nice any more."