Yeah, it is a pipe dream. I’m just sick of the unaffordability.
A car weighs 2000-4000lbs and can be produced in a mostly automated factory
A reasonable sized house still weighs 50-100k lbs that’s a lot more material and you have the land it is built on. It then takes multiple people days to build.
Houses being as affordable as cars is a pipe dream
thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I would build a cabin in the woods if it was legal to live like that. In the UK, it pretty much isn’t. You can have the cabin, but you can’t live in it.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Not from the UK but why can’t you live in a cabin?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
If you buy some woodland it won’t have planning permission for a permanent welling on it. Applying will almost certainly get rejected. You will only have permission to temporarily visit your land rather than live on it.
If it does have permission it will cost pretty much as much as a house. If there was a cheap way to have housing, even if it was just living in a tent, more people would be doing it.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
So woodland that can’t have a permanent dwelling is affordable but woodland that can is cheap?
Like that would make sense if the construction of the building was different but if it’s simply just how often you can spend time on your own land that’s ridiculous