BF2S Forums Home Ownership Thread

a guy was talking up cargo container homes today. he thinks it's about as easy as setting up a level foundation, running the plumbing, wiring, insulation, hvac, flooring, walls, ceiling, doing the lighting, cutting windows, doors, opening up more area by attaching more cargo containers. didn't consider additional framing or abatement of industrial treatments.

he's of the impression that it's really cheap and he'll just DIY. having done other projects with him (non-biz), it would be a disaster in the making. he has little patience for finesse, and even less if it's hot outside. i've literally sat in a car for a couple hours reading while a fencing project was kicking him in the butt and he was trying to figure out what to do. no remorse. i like the guy, but i'm not going to spend idle time leaning on a shovel on immediate standby while the ground bakes my feet through the soles of my shoes for the sake of some indecisive weekend project.

i also don't feel bad disabusing him of that enthusiasm. a stacked cargo container home project would probably kill him.

for something of mine, i think i'd stick with normal building materials where i can construct a place in the shape i want. unless i feel the need to live in a faraday cage out of fallout 4.

i am extremely open to the idea of moving the rest of my stuff that should be in storage into a cargo container, though. have fun chainsawing into that!

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I was trying to run cat6 cable through my walls a while back and having a fucking pain. Im trying to add a few more routers to corners of the house and the ol lady wants poe security cameras (dont get me started, we live in suburban boringville USA, we are fucking fine).
An electrician friend said to stop making life harder on myself and just run it outside the house. So the past few days Ive been cutting and adding pvc conduit to the outside and its coming together, despite the eyesore of tubes on my house. Almost done but the damn foundation goes so far up on my daylight basement that getting a hole in the side is a fuckin pain.

I believe at this point if you have wifi9 or whatever version theyre on and a solid mesh system, you should be golden. Those systems can be pricey and I have a 3 older wifi routers I use as access points instead of routers. Lastly in order to take advantage of your wifi9 system and the super speeds, you need newer devices that can use it and my old as fuck TV and phone most assuredly do not.

Solar has been making absolute ridiculous strides in the past 10 years. The US has decided that gas an oil companies decide youll continue paying them rather than taking advantage of new better tech

keep the time of day and the size of your neighbors' beer bellies in consideration when getting involved in neighborly disputes.

burbs are crazy.

if you stop posting, i'm going to figure you've been kidnapped by ice and sent to alligator alcatraz.

Congratulations.

I wouldn't sweat cosmetic stuff if you have kids coming.

I believe Sydney is one of the most expensive places to buy on the planet currently.

https://www.property.com.au/nsw/canley- … id-521758/

We did a safety visit on this house end last year while it was on sale. Not a great suburb, not close to any amenities. Place was literally falling apart.

Went for just over 1.1million AUD. Only thing going for it was that its an ok sized corner block.

I am a gentrifier.

My girlfriend's house is nearly totally setup. We have gotten to know our neighbors and spoke to an older retired white guy in the neighborhood.Really nice guy. He has been giving me tips on how to take care of the property and shit like that.

Really helpful and I told him how much I appreciate learning how to do all this "man of house" stuff from him "so don't hesitate if you have any advice."

Anyway, he mentioned "people in the area can't afford those [houses built in our mini development.]" So that makes us gentrifiers. We took our university education and government salaries and bought a new build in a struggling area. We did it.

RTHKI wrote:

Isn't it your girlfriend's house and not yours?

It was promised to me three thousand years ago.

But in all seriousness since Trump helped cut my summer work hours I had time to spend building and preparing the new home. Dozens of pieces of furniture built, things drilled in, walls painted, etc.

I have appreciated the experience for what it is worth.

"The vast nothingness of northwest and south Jersey never fails to amaze me, despite having the highest population density"


Fuck the forest. We can build cities right on that land.

We are cucked. The wealthy cucked us into depression and not reproducing. They had us making fun of "Chinese Ghost Cities."

But people eventually moved into those things meanwhile we have young adults living in attics and basements dating their AI girlfriends.

your average chinese family have far more life savings and higher rates of home ownership.

the 'ghost cities' were definitely a phenomenon of a real estate/construction bubble propped up by shady in-dealing and book-keeping practices; but it's also the case that the chinese middle-class have moved from land-shackled peasants to urbanites in nice new apartment blocks at a very high rate. some of those apartments are shoddily constructed, but others are genuinely very nice. a tier 1 city in china is a very good place to live on the global sliding scale.

the american dream is crumbling whereas the average chinese worker bee has quite a lot of material improvement/advancement to look forward to. not to mention passing on decent nest eggs for their (often times single) child. it's hard to overstate the effect that living in a growing economy has on your outlook. the difference in energy and dynamism between the UK/europe and a place like korea (not so much japan, but that's a case study in a category of one) was almost immediately tangible, when i was living there.

in general i think the western obsession with property ownership, coupled with the weird pseudo-tudor, volkisch, queen anne and twitching curtains, home-is-my-castle suburban model, has done great harm. only the hipsters were single-handedly trying to revive neglected high-density urban spaces or town centres. the slow and inexorable drift towards exurban sprawl and backwoods full of malls and drive thrus is horrible. the primacy of the car and 'individual freedom' over all else has done as much to create atomised societies as TV dinners, social media, or any of the other boogie men.

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