Micro-houses are cool. The minimal cost and maintenance is really appealing. Having to do it because everything else is unaffordable is not.

This has so much more context needed. Like the dude is getting the land for free as a sorta art piece and doesn't, or didn't plan to do it long.

Kinda dystopian and depressing, but honestly some parts of it seem nicer than the houses he's neighbours with. I like how it's designed to not interfere with the skip lorry's cab.

E: How much is the porta potty rental?

Good for him, I guess, but ... I wouldn't want to live in that POS even if you paid me. These stories are so frustrating because they start to normalize that living in a shoebox is normal. It isn't. It's terrible.

Why am I worried that some asshole developer is going to buy that little triangle of land out from under him, kick him off, and then just leave it unused for years. Maybe that sort of thing doesn't happen in the UK, but it sure AF would happen in the states.

Everything about this is a nightmare.

I never thought watching Sesame Street when I grew up that Oscar the Grouch is the future.

He’s got a nice sized lot there - could fit any number of more conventional options, including multi-family

So cool. I’m worried my house will be burgled. Surely he worries his house will be stolen? 😁

It's not a dumpster it's a skip they're different things.

A dumpster is basically something you put trash in. A skip is what you put building waste in (rubble, bits of drywall), so firstly it's larger than you're thinking, if you're thinking of a dumpster. Seriously if you get in one it's kind of hard to get back out again without somebody helping you, they go at least five foot up. Secondly he's doing this to prove a point, and the point he's trying to prove is that he's a belligerent idiot, and he's proving it very well. It's not that homes in London are expensive, although they are, his "problem" is that what he wants to do isn't legal (he wants to live in a caravan on that plot of land and it isn't zoned for that), so he's doing this instead as a loophole. It isn't some protest against home prices in London or anything noble like that.

However the media lap it up and he's quite happy to make use of it to further his cause of being an annoying pain.

Bro just live in a van. You can drive to different places and park for free.

If he really wants to help out, he should build 3 more of those with 3 more portable toilets and find a better source for water. That plot of land is more than enough to hold more density.

he's incredibly intelligent & handy to think this up, get all the bureaucratic approval, and build it from raw materials, INCREDIBLY CLEVER, so I sincerely hope he finds companionship with a kindred like-minded activist, because at the end of the day, nights get lonely.

I wonder what kind of woman would be attracted to a man who lives in a dumpster, would want to be his companion living in there with him, and fucking each other in a literal dumpster.

Because hear me out, I understand he's incredibly intelligent & handy to think this up, get all the bureaucratic approval, and build it from raw materials, INCREDIBLY CLEVER, so I sincerely hope he finds companionship with a kindred like-minded activist, because at the end of the day, nights get lonely.

It's so great that our society has declined so much that it's basically like living in a third world country like, the Bahamas.

A few years back i remember reading on quora that you can rent a single bedroom apartment for $400 easily there. looks like times have changed