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Re: Building a modern home in the woods

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Post by oh_sigh »

ttul wrote: post #12
fartcannon wrote: post #7

Leaving out the actual financial information makes this post a little useless. Before I can imagine it, I want to know if I can do this or if I need to be a trust fund baby.

These kids may not have a trust fund, but to have already bought and sold a Vancouver townhouse with enough equity to buy raw land and build a fairly baller house on it… they definitely had parental help.

If a couple in their 30s with 2 children are kids...what do you consider adults?

Also, I'm approximately their same demographic and could afford to build a house like this if the other estimates in this thread are approximate, and have literally not taken a penny from my parents, or used their resources(which are scant - I was paid more my first job out of college than both my parents combined), since I was 16.

Re: Building a modern home in the woods

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Post by vehemenz »

sswezey wrote: post #20

Ugh, the font doesn't scale when zooming, but the pictures do. The font does scale though when changing the container size. The font is massive on a monitor, terrible UX.

Agreed. It is obnoxiously large doesn't scale correctly. The text is too big on a standard 4K monitor or phone.

The author used viewport-relative units for body text and (guessing) only tested on a laptop screen.

This fixes it:

[data-predefined-style="true"] main { font-size: 20px; }

Re: Building a modern home in the woods

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Post by Scoundreller »

fartcannon wrote: post #33
rglover wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tennessee.

I see. I don't think you could buy a temporary ice fishing hut for 12k in Canada.

But you can live on the lake rent-free for several months of the year if you go north enough.

What’s that worth to you?

Re: Building a modern home in the woods

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Post by JALTU »

asavadatti wrote: post #39
claudiulodro wrote: post #25

The way to do this if you're not wealthy is to get a cheapo plot of land on the Oregon/Washington coast ($<100k for up to .5 acres) and put a manufactured home on it. It's way simpler, cheaper, and the construction on manufactured homes has improved a lot over the years (they're framed with 2x6s to survive transport, and this makes them sturdier and better insulated than most traditional houses). I did it and it's be…

Any recommendations on manufactured homes?

Here's one, see my comment about: https://www.ideabox.us/

Re: Building a modern home in the woods

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Post by asjldkfin »

antisthenes wrote: post #78
asjldkfin wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's amazing how much bitterness and jealousy can be encapsulated in just one sentence. It's almost poetic.

That's just your interpretation of it. Where you see bitterness and jealousy, I just see indifference and light irony. Maybe you're the one projecting?

The fact this is at the bottom of the comment pile would suggest your interpretation is unique

Re: Building a modern home in the woods

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Post by xyzzyz »

claudiulodro wrote: post #25

The way to do this if you're not wealthy is to get a cheapo plot of land on the Oregon/Washington coast ($<100k for up to .5 acres) and put a manufactured home on it. It's way simpler, cheaper, and the construction on manufactured homes has improved a lot over the years (they're framed with 2x6s to survive transport, and this makes them sturdier and better insulated than most traditional houses). I did it and it's be…

Regular houses these days are also commonly built with 2x6s for external walls.

Re: Building a modern home in the woods

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Post by Scoundreller »

ttul wrote: post #12
fartcannon wrote: post #7

Leaving out the actual financial information makes this post a little useless. Before I can imagine it, I want to know if I can do this or if I need to be a trust fund baby.

These kids may not have a trust fund, but to have already bought and sold a Vancouver townhouse with enough equity to buy raw land and build a fairly baller house on it… they definitely had parental help.

> Vancouver townhouse

> enough equity to buy raw land and build a fairly baller house on it

Sounds about right for Vancouver property market.

Re: Building a modern home in the woods

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Post by desdiv »

ReleaseCandidat wrote: post #62
MezzoDelCammin wrote: post #50

"The bigger issue was that the energy demands for the house, which included hot water heating for the pool and hot tub, outstripped the electrical supply we could get on a rural residential build: 400A" Am I the only one who almost spit out his coffee when reading this paragraph? I mean, building a remote home in the middle of a forest is a cool idea, sure. But then end up feeding the whole thing with 400A worth of e…

> Am I the only one who almost spit out his coffee when reading this paragraph? No, I thought that was a typo and should be 40A (so 120V * 40 A or 400V * 12A).

It's not a typo because 400A is indeed the highest tier residential service BC Hydro currently offers[0]. 400A is also in the right ballpark for the amount of equipment he describes.

[0] https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/electrical-connecti...

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