Friday, Jun 08, 2007
Life in the 8 foot cube - not the concrete jungle ...
BBC News: Testing out a compact house
It's a BBC podcast. It only costs £50,000 and is just like living in a very small caravan, but without wheels. And you have to pay Council Tax, Water Rates, etc. There is even room to swing the proverbial cat (toy bean bag variety) as demonstrated. But with only a microwave cooker, it'll be cafe-culture for breakfast/lunch/supper. And this is cost saving ???
Posted by fahrenheit451 @ 02:11 PM (242 views) Add Comment
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1. fahrenheit451 said...
Sorry this is another re-hash of an older news article.
"Cubes may solve housing shortage" - Thursday, 25 August 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4185426.stm
They must be getting desperate, and note the inflation, in 2005 it cost £30,000 - Now it costs £50,000.
perhaps I should get shares in the company, but since I've not seen them anywhare, perhaps they are trying to flog the proverbial "Dead Horse".
2. Andy H said...
I'm sure I could build a bigger and better made one for under £10K from a shipping container.
3. David20040_0 said...
Horrendous
4. japanese uncle said...
Laughably Japanese phenomenon, isn't it?
I must confess I was living in a room no bigger than this as a freshman in a university in Tokyo decades ago.
UK is much more spacious than Japan (in terms of habitable land area), and given no pressure from the vicious speculative property investors (many of them being overseas investors), everyone ought to be able to live in a reasonably big house. Look at Germans. Their houses and flats are much bigger than here, though Germany as a land is not particularly bigger than UK.
5. dohousescrashinthewoods said...
Good for pixies, less helpful for a family of six critically obese chavs.
6. enuii said...
A proper chrome plated gypsy caravan is a much better living proposal that similarly does not incur council tax, water rates, and there is plenty of room to swing around a decent sized dog never mind a moggy.
7. Rabid Tory said...
Absolutley no arguament then that quality of life under labour has been improving.
8. Rover2000 said...
How about living and working in a container?
http://www.containercity.com/
9. Ah-so said...
Nothing wrong with these in principle, as Japanese Uncle says, but they do need to be in the right place. If I was single, in my mid-twenties, one of these in central London would be ideal for my lifestyle, especially if I was renting. However, they are useless for a family and they are the last thing you want to be stuck with in negative equity.
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11. Superruss said...
Well let that be a lesson to you children to do well in school and have at least a six figure income.
f"cking rediculous that anyone could "live" in such a place whether they are student, keyworker, dog, cat etc...
Smells like of end of cycle turd to me.
12. Imhal said...
Why would anyone bother with this silly 8x8 - FGS when you can buy a decent motor home that is 4 times its size - has wheels - does not incure all the silly UK taxes and can be taken abroad when you get sick of the culture of ramping HPI in the UK.
Get wheeles! - they can get you out of this mad place.
HAL.
13. Time To Raise Petrol Prices said...
Is this a joke? It looks like a luxury prison cell!
While it might be useful for a commuter wanting a weeknight bolthole (a very apt term too), to suggest that nurses and key workers would want to live in such a miniscule space is plain cruel. What a disgrace!
14. Mjchum said...
£50,000!!!!!
I already live in a similar abode on regeneration sites. It's called a Bunk-a-Bin, they cost around £4k. How the hell did they work the price up to £50k. But that's it isn't it? It's not about the cost of construction+land+profit, it's about paying a bank for the right to exist in this God forsaken country, the new form of salvery.
That concrete cube thing, which will be pre-cast in a sort of jelly mold, would at a guess cost around £6-7k maximum to 'make'.
I love the way that silly twat BBC prat tried to put such a gloss on it, like anyone even notices anymore. Sh1t, I'm so f^$king bitter!
Is this really what we've come to. Deadline for my departure from UK now set for March 2008. New house £50k (3000 sq.ft), new top of the line Toyota pick-up £9.5k (£30k in the UK). BYE BYE.
By the way, you can get large static caravans for around £25,000 (with 3 bedrooms, living room, kitchen and bathroom!!).
REVOLT, REVOLT, REVOLT!!!!
15. Koko said...
To where?
16. Scott said...
I think it is a very good idea for students and people who visit places ocassionally for 1, 2 or 3 days a week, but not for 50k! For example, having a proper house in the country but then having this in the city for staying over in. I do not think it would be good for key workers as it will alienate them.