Could you live in something this size?

[Aemma]

I've stumbled across some very interesting vids this week, having to do with Urban Farming, Self-sufficiency and the Small House Movement, respectively. I'll eventually be positng about some of this stuff, but since I'm in a wee bit of a rush right now, I thought I'd settle for this in the meantime: How small of a house could you live in?

Check it out:

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[Tabiti]

Considering the fact I've spent my life in communistic era flats, I can bear various conditions...
However many Japanese still say we all lived in too big flats.

[Absinthe]

In a small wooden house like this in the middle of nowhere, yes. Then I could go out and take a walk in nature whenever I felt suffocated.

In an apartment this size, inside the city? Preferably not. Though I hear this is pretty much the situation in Tokyo.

For the record my flat is not much bigger than that - and not nearly as clean and un-cluttered

[Agrippa]

Could I - if I have to? Yes.
Do I want that? Surely not.

People adapt themselves to much worse, just think of being sick or crippled and the like, or living in a shithole of a slum, but is that always good? Its not the optimum, neither is extreme, useless luxury. The problem is the line in between, but to determine that is more difficult and subjective, yet some people seem to be naturally more reasonable than others, like in most other political and personal fields too...

[Osweo]

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I could manage in there quite well, given that, off and on, I must have spent about two years or more in this:

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When you move out of a thing like the above, a larger house like I'm in now gets you a bit nostalgic for the smaller sometimes. In the van, I could get out of bed and go to the toilet or make a cup of tea in about five or so paces, you see. And I find living in a small space makes you go out more, and see the countryside and your surroundings. There's a lot you miss, locked away in your shells, you non-Gypsies...

But there's no way to store all the provisions and belongings you need for a proper life. It's human nature to collect heirlooms and furniture. And a real man needs a lot of space for his tools.

[Radojica]

My flat is rather small, only 29m2, so probably I would be able.

[Psychonaut]

I have lived in smaller (military barracks), but would not willingly do so again. I far prefer a big house to a small house and hope that my next one has at least four bedrooms.

[Piparskeggr]

Well, as I camp a bit (normally several days to a couple of weeks at a time), I'll use that as a baseline...

My one man tent is 140 sq ft (abt 13 sq m) and my cooking/sitting area shelter is 192 sq ft (abt 18 sq m).

A little extra room for storage and toilet...probably about 580 sq ft (54 sq m), if I were living alone.

[Äike]

Yes I could.

[Birka]

Wheel it into the woods and use it as a hunting lodge. I didn't see the gun racks though.