small bungalow
proceeds to list a 5 rooms house
EDIT: ok, apparently i do not know what a bungalow is. Their size ranges from less than 70 square meters up to 130, my mental image was of a large wooden tent of ~40 square meters
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Just a small bungalow with its own private gym.
If you've got two bedrooms and only need one then having a gym in the other one isn't a luxury. Hell, it's less of a luxury than using it as a spare bedroom that is useless except for storage and getting visitors a few times a year.
Which is a small bungalow...
Ours is 850 sq ft and we've got 3 bedrooms, so if we removed one we would be at 750 sq ft and rearrange the divisions and it could be smaller.
Post war housing built by the Canadian government was 600 to 800 sq ft bungalows with two or three bedrooms, 70s bungalows around here are 850 to 1150 sq ft with three or four bedrooms...
Usually it’s the other way around.
“This spacious 400sqft condo features scenic fire escapes and running water..”
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It's basically a two bedroom bungalow, that's not that crazy to imagine is it?
Maybe it’s just my mental idea of a bungalow that equates it to a slightly larger wooden tent.
That's what we used to have before landlords convinced you to live your whole life in somebody else's spare room.
My first house was an 800 sq ft cottage - smaller than most apartments. The bedrooms could only fit a Full bed, not a Queen. It had the same number of rooms OP listed and was the perfect size for me. I'm not familiar with a "bungalow" but that's what I'm imagining.
Lottery winner or parents' home?
Or just not living in the regions where it's super expensive to buy a house... We just moved out of a small city with all services (hospital, groceries, sewers, water, cultural events...) and a house like OP is describing would have been super cheap, hell in a village 10 minutes away there was a project to complete that would have cost about 150k total (purchase + finishing the project) and that was a two floors house with a half acre lot...
OP actually has an affordable reality here. Its cities that are expensive, not rural areas and small houses. It depends on the location, but this is usually the case. The further away from urban centers you are, the less expensive it gets to buy. From my experience, a small city apartment costs the same as a spacious house with land outside of the city. There's drawbacks to both, pick your poison.
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Bought 5 acres (with 1.5 of those acres flat on a hill) about ~20 min outside a medium city, ~1 hour equidistant from 2 very large cities. Geotechnical engineers have been to the property, report submitted to the county (took months). Sewage engineers have been out to the property and approved the drain field (took weeks). Well will be drilled once the county approves the build site. It's slow going but it will be worth it in the end! My only fear is trump cancelling the rural broadband fund as I am slated to get the fiber cable run to my property line within a year. Staying with starlink for longer will not be awesome, but oh well, sacrifice.
What counts as a big garden, I would like bigger but my bungalow is on a 150m² total property area, 60m² of that is the indoor area. Spent quite a bit to have the concrete paved across the entire garden removed and I did all the labour myself with a sledgehammer. IIRC it was 8m³ of that crap.
Now mine is the only house on the street that you can see real bees at. My "lawn is untidy"? Fuck off, that is a meadow and it is glorious! As I am British there is no HOA for you to cry to. I am free to make the bees happy.
Unless it gets to the point I am blocking out the sun to the houses nearby there is fuck all anyone can do about my garden.
I love it! Bonus points if it turns to a bog in the winter, so I can collect potion ingredients.
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Anon accidently envisions a solarpunk-esque lifestyle
what's solar punk?
Like steampunk, but instead of steam, it's solar.
So I'm longer in the tooth now nearing 50. Got 3 kids. My intention when my kids finish high school is to go back to the small towns from whence I came. City living is so goddamn expensive now. I can buy 50 acres for slightly more than what I pay for a 30*150 lot with a semi-detached home.
I'm gonna Christopher Robin my life when I nope out of IT and with luck build houses for my kids and build a homestead.
This is the way folks. Protect you and yours the best you can.
Do it now. Land doesn't go down in price unfortunately.
I would if it were not for the complexity of child support I don't want to do my ex dirty like that. I'm ready to shift careers but that will mean a major pay cut
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I want a house with a walled courtyard/atrium between the house and garage. I also want an underground space like a hobbit hole crossed with a bomb shelter.
I want either a Swiss Family Robinson style treehouse or a spaceship.
I'll get the house, you the spaceship and we swap every other year or so?
Its basically what I have except that I have rented the other room to a friend of mine.
Anon about to find out economies of scale. That garden isn't enough to feed him year-round.
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