This has so much more context needed. Like the dude is getting the land for free as a sorta art piece and doesn’t, or didn’t plan to do it long.
Kinda dystopian and depressing, but honestly some parts of it seem nicer than the houses he’s neighbours with. I like how it’s designed to not interfere with the skip lorry’s cab.
E: How much is the porta potty rental?
How much is the porta potty rental?
I watched the video through and he says he gets it free and they empty it every week or so. I suppose it’s good advertising for the company.
Why am I worried that some asshole developer is going to buy that little triangle of land out from under him, kick him off, and then just leave it unused for years. Maybe that sort of thing doesn’t happen in the UK, but it sure AF would happen in the states.
From the article
“The land was granted to him by an arts charity called Antepavilion”
He owns the land. Doesn’t stop the government from doing an eminent domain claim I guess but if they do he’s going to get more than it’s worth
No, the art charity owns the land. They just let him use it.
My electricity bill is so small that it is included in my land sponsorship,
Ah ok. I misinterpreted what “granted” meant
That’s good. Thanks!
Good for him, I guess, but … I wouldn’t want to live in that POS even if you paid me. These stories are so frustrating because they start to normalize that living in a shoebox is normal. It isn’t. It’s terrible.
Well considering the Western world’s comforts are here for us at the cost of poverty everywhere else. Hum idk maybe this should be a start in a moderate society.
One that has no rich fucks but also doesn’t have poverty
Not really. Wealth is not a zero sum game.
Wealth is not a zero sum game.
The way it’s being treated, it absolutely is.
Lot of poverty in the western world and lot of excessive wealth ‘everywhere else’.
Everything about this is a nightmare.
I never thought watching Sesame Street when I grew up that Oscar the Grouch is the future.
he’s incredibly intelligent & handy to think this up, get all the bureaucratic approval, and build it from raw materials, INCREDIBLY CLEVER, so I sincerely hope he finds companionship with a kindred like-minded activist, because at the end of the day, nights get lonely.
I wonder what kind of woman would be attracted to a man who lives in a dumpster, would want to be his companion living in there with him, and fucking each other in a literal dumpster.
Because hear me out, I understand he’s incredibly intelligent & handy to think this up, get all the bureaucratic approval, and build it from raw materials, INCREDIBLY CLEVER, so I sincerely hope he finds companionship with a kindred like-minded activist, because at the end of the day, nights get lonely.
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sure you scowl or whatever but I’m a woman and I live in a van and this is a very real concern. not throwing shade at him. empathizing with him, in fact he’s doing much better in life than I am. Because he has a great mind and great skills and a great job, He’s industrious, he’s going to do great in life.
every day there’s this underlying angst in my mind replaying over and over again, “I would not be attracted to the kind of person who might be attracted to me living this way.”
You know what I mean?
every day there’s this underlying angst in my mind replaying over and over again, “I would not be attracted to the kind of person who might be attracted to me living this way.”
I guess what you’re looking for is someone who likes you enough not to care then rather than someone actively attracted to you living that way if that makes sense.
My wife was a single mum living in a pretty shitty apartment when we met initially. We’re married 19 years now. I adopted that lovely boy and we have a heap more kids together. She’s a beautiful soul and that’s what I was looking for in life. Many people just look past things like your current living arrangement if you’re right for them is what I’m saying I suppose.
Very well said.
Congrats on your happiness.
Thank you. :) It’s not all sunshine and roses all the time. That’s life, but you know… It’s good.
I hope you find the right person for snuggles.
You really went into detail fantasising about someone having sex with him… Like I get saying “Oh I hope he finds love” but you like… Really went into detail???
He’s living in a literal dumpster. We’re in a discussion forum here and we’re free to explore everything that comes to our minds. So someone needs to point out the elephant in the room. If he takes someone to his bed, they’d be literally fucking in a dumpster. Everyone’s thinking it, but no one saying it, so let’s talk about it.
Oh come on, why did you say “fantasizing?” Do you “fantasize” when you think for a moment about Grandma and Grandpa, they’ve produced at least one child who produced you, right? You don’t want to picture it but you do for a second. It’s just human nature then you move on. We don’t “fantasize” about any of that, that’s the wrong word here.
Hahaha this comment got me
So cool. I’m worried my house will be burgled. Surely he worries his house will be stolen? 😁
You just need to make it slightly harder to steal your house, when compared to the house next door.
It’s not a dumpster it’s a skip they’re different things.
A dumpster is basically something you put trash in. A skip is what you put building waste in (rubble, bits of drywall), so firstly it’s larger than you’re thinking, if you’re thinking of a dumpster. Seriously if you get in one it’s kind of hard to get back out again without somebody helping you, they go at least five foot up. Secondly he’s doing this to prove a point, and the point he’s trying to prove is that he’s a belligerent idiot, and he’s proving it very well. It’s not that homes in London are expensive, although they are, his “problem” is that what he wants to do isn’t legal (he wants to live in a caravan on that plot of land and it isn’t zoned for that), so he’s doing this instead as a loophole. It isn’t some protest against home prices in London or anything noble like that.
However the media lap it up and he’s quite happy to make use of it to further his cause of being an annoying pain.
If he really wants to help out, he should build 3 more of those with 3 more portable toilets and find a better source for water. That plot of land is more than enough to hold more density.
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Bro just live in a van. You can drive to different places and park for free.
It’s an art project.
Plus if he lived in a caravan, people would just assume he’s a traveller and have the council move him on.
Why didn’t he build a house instead?
Where can you build a house for $5,000?
Just poking fun at the headline. He didn’t build a dumpster. He built a house out of a dumpster.
If you were in the building industry/trades already I bet you could scavenge enough materials and borrow the equipment to do it.
He’s deliberately built it in a skip because that’s the loop-hole. Houses come with all kinds of regs/costs involved - these costs are magnified in London.
There’s literally no way you could legally build a house on the land for anything remotely close to that - maybe even at all.
Conversely, you’re allowed to put whatever you want in a skip, as long as it fits. And you can put a skip pretty much anywhere on your own property.
The obvious downside is that his house doesn’t technically exist. However, the upside is that his house doesn’t technically exist also.
Americans pretending other countries don’t have their own currency.
.com is a US commercial web domain. It makes sense for currencies to be converted to USD for a primarily US intended audience.
No, .com is an international tld and you can convert prices while still listing the original like any other countries news source would do.
You’re right about their first argument, but it is indeed a primarily American audience.
Imagine collecting and counting those $62 each month. The sense of accomplishment and contribution to society that must confer.
The society that put him there in the first place? Yeah, what a debt he owes to that benevolent system. Truly.
They are ragging on the landlord who considers this an acceptable way for someone to live. The key word of their post being “collecting”.
Do you live in a safe reality secured from the eventualities that the majority of the population exists in, or are you just packing up another bowl of hopium? Shit is fucked, and it’s quickly becoming norm. Step away from the pipe, fellow citizen.
A few years back i remember reading on quora that you can rent a single bedroom apartment for $400 easily there. looks like times have changed
