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Strangely Offended
Jun. 16th, 2006 07:29 pmThe article Move Over, McMansions describes "microhouses" as "typically, houses spanning from a few hundred to a little more than a thousand square feet" and as "[r]anging between a mere 64 square feet to just over 1,200."
(In contrast, the average (American) house today has 2,400 square feet.)
Since my house has 960 square feet, I live in a (rather large) microhouse.
The article states that most people buying these exciting new kinds of houses are buying them as vacation homes or art studios or, if they are hippie freaks trying to reduce their footprint on the earth, as their only homes.
So, this implies that I am either some kind of freak or possibly some kind of person who is so hip with this new concept that I am already living it. I'm so not. I'm a little hippie-ish, but not very good at it.
I think I'm just hippie-ish enough to be offended. I think if the definition applied to houses of 64 to 400 square feet, I wouldn't be offended. But 800 to 1000 square feet is perfectly reasonable, especially for a single person or couple.
Since I even enjoyed living in a dorm room, I must be some kind of extremely bizarre type of person.
And what about these folks in Hong Kong who live in apartments that are 100 square feet? (That site is nothing but one picture of each person (or couple) in the room, apparently given no time to prepare for the shoot.) Most of these people seem to be having a hard time fitting everything into their space, but check out the guy pictured in #93! What minimalist living!
(In contrast, the average (American) house today has 2,400 square feet.)
Since my house has 960 square feet, I live in a (rather large) microhouse.
The article states that most people buying these exciting new kinds of houses are buying them as vacation homes or art studios or, if they are hippie freaks trying to reduce their footprint on the earth, as their only homes.
So, this implies that I am either some kind of freak or possibly some kind of person who is so hip with this new concept that I am already living it. I'm so not. I'm a little hippie-ish, but not very good at it.
I think I'm just hippie-ish enough to be offended. I think if the definition applied to houses of 64 to 400 square feet, I wouldn't be offended. But 800 to 1000 square feet is perfectly reasonable, especially for a single person or couple.
Since I even enjoyed living in a dorm room, I must be some kind of extremely bizarre type of person.
And what about these folks in Hong Kong who live in apartments that are 100 square feet? (That site is nothing but one picture of each person (or couple) in the room, apparently given no time to prepare for the shoot.) Most of these people seem to be having a hard time fitting everything into their space, but check out the guy pictured in #93! What minimalist living!