It's a great idea!
... and so easy to move back to Carbonear when the B.C. economy slows down!
Ft. McMurray needs about 10,000 of those.
CDN_PATRIOT
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 2:54 pm
I dunno. 320 square feet is not that much space to live in and be comfortable. The idea of recycling shipping containers is neat, however.
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:20 pm
CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:
I dunno. 320 square feet is not that much space to live in and be comfortable. The idea of recycling shipping containers is neat, however.
-J.
These are low cost units.
Sky's the limit in terms of configurations though...
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:33 pm
peck420 peck420:
CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:
I dunno. 320 square feet is not that much space to live in and be comfortable. The idea of recycling shipping containers is neat, however.
-J.
These are low cost units.
Sky's the limit in terms of configurations though...
Exactly.
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:48 pm
Funny how down here about ten years ago someone in LA proposed using old containers as housing for the homeless and was shouted down as being 'insensitive' and now the fool things are FASHIONABLE!!!!
CDN_PATRIOT
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:58 pm
peck420 peck420:
These are low cost units.
Sky's the limit in terms of configurations though...
That is really cool!
-J.
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:41 pm
Kind of sexist though. Only women can get them.
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:48 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Funny how down here about ten years ago someone in LA proposed using old containers as housing for the homeless and was shouted down as being 'insensitive' and now the fool things are FASHIONABLE!!!!
The 'someone' was right, and the shouting downers are dumb.
Students have been living in them since 2006 in The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Groningen...). So for me, it is nothing new.
Rent is 400 Euro, $600. Better than a dorm.
This is the Wenckebachweg in Amsterdam, with 1000 of them
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:10 pm
That's really cool. Don't think it would work here though. I think you'd lose too much room insulating it properly.
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 7:40 pm
It's a trick. Solution to poverty: When all the units are full of homeless, they slam the doors and load them back on a boat.
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 8:22 pm
Where do we end the boat though? Sri Lanka? "We took yours, now you have to take ours!"
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:32 pm
herbie herbie:
It's a trick. Solution to poverty: When all the units are full of homeless, they slam the doors and load them back on a boat.
Hope the Gregor and the Province don't get them mixed up with the garbage containers Vancouver's gonna be shipping to out of town so they can keep their greenest city claim.
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 4:50 am
Bart and Brenda agreeing on something; good start to the morning.
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:41 am
GreenTiger GreenTiger:
Bart and Brenda agreeing on something; good start to the morning.
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