tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post1668757344445138836..comments2024-03-29T03:05:05.850-05:00Comments on Althouse: The comments on the NYT piece "Where Can You Park a Tiny Home?" are completely out of sync...Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34640482272963573162017-10-10T11:14:59.913-05:002017-10-10T11:14:59.913-05:00Do they float?Do they float?Interesting,not crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717802400553953311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61098614593689037302017-10-10T02:51:58.485-05:002017-10-10T02:51:58.485-05:00I don't know that a tiny house has a septic ho...I don't know that a tiny house has a septic holding tank.<br /><br />My fantasy small dwelling is a Yurt but the climate needs to be just right. High Country.Pinandpullerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027787389672267726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-6189077399696214522017-10-09T21:10:45.751-05:002017-10-09T21:10:45.751-05:00They are ANSI-code park models, if that.. Otherwis...They are ANSI-code park models, if that.. Otherwise they're effectively tents. Best case you need to move them at least once a year. Middling case they are constructed to the codes of a shed; we don't need no water let the cascading burn... Burn cascading burn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-47254060278937946372017-10-09T18:56:30.242-05:002017-10-09T18:56:30.242-05:00Very typical of NY Times readership.Very typical of NY Times readership.PSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03821006701527318483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-85144074632670211372017-10-09T18:45:51.292-05:002017-10-09T18:45:51.292-05:00If the point of having a tiny house on wheels is s...If the point of having a tiny house on wheels is so that you can pull up to a storm drain in order to dump your sewage, that's sort of illegal and very bad for the environment.Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32674244670637180882017-10-09T18:32:29.117-05:002017-10-09T18:32:29.117-05:00>Two hours? How were you traveling? Whether by ...>Two hours? How were you traveling? Whether by car or train, the commute shouldn't take more than an hour (if not less) from Manhattan to Peekskill. Two hours will get you to Poughkeepsie.<br /><br />Yes, if you have the power to teleport instantly from work to Grand Central, and then from the Peekskill station back to home. <br /><br />Unfortunately, I did not have those powers at that time.John Nowakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14289896109284792526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2334364476625322142017-10-09T18:28:16.524-05:002017-10-09T18:28:16.524-05:00"The only two-hour commute I've ever actu..."The only two-hour commute I've ever actually known was a guy who commuted daily from Modesto to our music store in the SF Mission District"<br /><br />The commute from Orange County, north Orange County, to El Segundo took two hours at 5 AM. The return trip, after 2 PM on Friday, could take over 3 hours. Once, I got home at 7 PM.<br /><br />I now commute from Tucson to Phoenix and at 4 AM it takes 1 1/2 hours. The return at 1 PM takes 2 hours.<br /><br />I only do that twice, sometimes three times, a week.<br /><br />The difference is that, in Arizona, it is 110 miles each way. In LA 50 miles each way.<br /><br />Twice the distance in the same time, or less.<br />Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54093481674380391752017-10-09T18:24:12.648-05:002017-10-09T18:24:12.648-05:00My house started as two rooms with a 3 foot hallwa...My house started as two rooms with a 3 foot hallway between them, 650 sq ft total. It's been added to 3 times and moved 20 feet.<br /><br />We still have a fair number of occupied tiny houses built for cotton mill workers a hundred years ago or more.<br />Ralph Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915708905660273961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-47018728129972053272017-10-09T18:20:23.413-05:002017-10-09T18:20:23.413-05:00wild chicken,
The one I was talking about above (...wild chicken,<br /><br />The one I was talking about above (the one with the open sewer) was a little bigger than that, but not very much. We think it was the original homestead on that patch of land, a clapboard cottage maybe a century old. Later on a much bigger and grander house was built in front of it, closer to what is now Alcatraz Ave. Michelle Dulak Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18041391162535875301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46645244917999090562017-10-09T18:19:11.696-05:002017-10-09T18:19:11.696-05:00Mansion, penthouse, gated community privilege.Mansion, penthouse, gated community privilege.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19204355134743499062017-10-09T18:15:29.098-05:002017-10-09T18:15:29.098-05:00Robert Cook,
Two hours from Peekskill to Manhatta...Robert Cook,<br /><br />Two hours from Peekskill to Manhattan jumped out at me, too. The only two-hour commute I've ever actually known was a guy who commuted daily from Modesto to our music store in the SF Mission District, though there are obviously a ton of people who make the daily run from Santa Rosa and even further north down to SF, bumper-to-bumper nearly all the way, and now that I'm in OR we see the same thing into and out of Portland, though thankfully not (yet) here. [ETA: No, I've seen worse, in fact been worse, but then I was a little kid. For a couple of years my father drove me to Juilliard from Schenectady, 3 1/4 hours on a decent day. Then we moved downstate, and it was more like an hour.]<br /><br />The key to avoiding such routine traffic jams is, unsurprisingly, to stay away from large cities, either as homes or as work destinations. Something that a lot of Democrats, in my experience, just refuse to do. This of course feeds into the gerrymandering case now before the SCOTUS, and many other things. Michelle Dulak Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18041391162535875301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3205709862598677712017-10-09T17:55:13.241-05:002017-10-09T17:55:13.241-05:00Why do we need tiny houses. Why not small, modest ...Why do we need tiny houses. Why not small, modest houses. They used to build them, 60 yrs ago. My first was small, 500sf on a fenced lot. Built for a railroad worker. <br /><br />Except, new buyers want more for their debt.wild chickenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17956296475651720602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-58485347210179481232017-10-09T17:19:33.482-05:002017-10-09T17:19:33.482-05:00"Two hour commute? My only two hour commute w...<i>"Two hour commute? My only two hour commute was from Manhattan to a studio apartment in Peekskill."</i><br /><br />Two hours? How were you traveling? Whether by car or train, the commute shouldn't take more than an hour (if not less) from Manhattan to Peekskill. Two hours will get you to Poughkeepsie.Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66140702488534170832017-10-09T16:30:18.699-05:002017-10-09T16:30:18.699-05:00rent controlled, not "tent controlled." ...rent controlled, not "tent controlled." Even Santa Monica is not that bad.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43707168668412186222017-10-09T16:29:19.420-05:002017-10-09T16:29:19.420-05:00"And never trust content from the Guardian!&q..."And never trust content from the Guardian!"<br /><br />Fair enough but they did quote a guy and it fit with what I do know. I also have a son in the Bay Area.<br /><br />My daughter lives in a tent controlled apartment in Santa Monica and apartments next door rent for $4500 per month.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38357056872264961242017-10-09T16:21:04.291-05:002017-10-09T16:21:04.291-05:00Assrat said...
>It was interesting but the prob...<i>Assrat said...<br />>It was interesting but the problem of where to live was just as important.<br /><br />Housing's a big problem, especially for entrance level jobs in tech. And depending on where you are, there's not much of a gap in rents between studios and two bedrooms.<br /><br />Some sort of cheap housing needs to be made available, but where and how I don't know.</i><br /><br />Step 1- Get rid of rent control, permanently. It's an unconstitutional taking in any event, despite what courts have ruled.<br /><br />Step 2- Reasonable zoning that allows high density housing- like apartments- to be built.<br /><br />Step 3- make eviction easier and quicker for non-payment of rent. Gospacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570281939230746682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-41058646056915294882017-10-09T16:03:20.379-05:002017-10-09T16:03:20.379-05:00OK. So the guy The Guardian interviewed was lying ...OK. So the guy The Guardian interviewed was lying ?<br /><br /><br />Dear Doc,<br /><br /><br />Allow me a personal observation: you are not Jewish. Perhaps accordingly, when someone tells you the price, you think that's the price. :-) <br /><br />President Trump would never do this. He is not Jewish, of course, but he has what we call a Yiddishe kop.<br /><br />Also, al-Guardian had no reason to search real estate exhaustively, nor to strive for the lowest prices. The more outrageous the numbers, the hotter the story. Plus they are foreigners. So what do they know about a local RE market?<br /><br />Moral of the story: <br /><br />Never pay retail! <br /><br />And never trust content from the Guardian!Bad Lieutenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091901464339059169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51641610338203113582017-10-09T15:56:27.757-05:002017-10-09T15:56:27.757-05:00Michael K said...
" When I pointed that ...<i>Michael K said...<br /><br /> " When I pointed that out, you insinuated I was wrong."<br /><br /> Actually, I simply commented that maybe you knew better.<br /><br /> Your paranoia did the rest which is why I wonder if your hair trigger temper has gotten you into trouble before?<br /><br /> 10/9/17, 3:52 PM</i><br /><br />Yeah, well, fact is, I do know better, correct? Better than the author, and better than you. Regarding property prices/commute times in the area.FullMoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541560904252155570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34765406983294853712017-10-09T15:55:00.267-05:002017-10-09T15:55:00.267-05:00I will not ask why your daughter interviewed a doz...<i> I will not ask why your daughter interviewed a dozen times and did not rent a place for a couple of grand so she might work at one of the highest paying, most prestigious, perkified companies in the world.<br /></i><br /><br />In the end they decided to promote from inside as the women who would have trained her were pregnant.<br /><br />She was conflicted the whole time about the living costs and what the salary would be. She did get interviewed by the guy who is chief of the design team, which has 20 members.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90239792340614967962017-10-09T15:52:53.781-05:002017-10-09T15:52:53.781-05:00" When I pointed that out, you insinuated I w..." When I pointed that out, you insinuated I was wrong."<br /><br />Actually, I simply commented that maybe you knew better.<br /><br />Your paranoia did the rest which is why I wonder if your hair trigger temper has gotten you into trouble before?Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22076175795695464472017-10-09T15:37:15.590-05:002017-10-09T15:37:15.590-05:00Michael K said...
"while I actually know...<i>Michael K said...<br /><br /> "while I actually know what I am talking about, I will mention it in a nice way. Same as I did months ago when I pointed out your Apple daughter could rent a two bedroom apartment in the area for around two thousand a month."<br /><br /> OK. So the guy The Guardian interviewed was lying ?</i><br /><br />Maybe not. Doesn't matter, The point is a person can but a home thirty minutes from Cupertino for much less than 1.5 million, LIKE YOU CLAIMED based on a couple of anecdotes. When I pointed that out, you insinuated I was wrong. Of course, I am right, and you are wrong,again. Nice try at diversion I am arguing with you, not the Guardian guy.<br />And, being the reasonable person I am, I will not ask why your daughter interviewed a dozen times and did not rent a place for a couple of grand so she might work at one of the highest paying, most prestigious, perkified companies in the world.<br /><br /><br />FullMoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541560904252155570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67843598050957818092017-10-09T15:28:05.246-05:002017-10-09T15:28:05.246-05:00"while I actually know what I am talking abou..."while I actually know what I am talking about, I will mention it in a nice way. Same as I did months ago when I pointed out your Apple daughter could rent a two bedroom apartment in the area for around two thousand a month."<br /><br />OK. So the guy The Guardian interviewed was lying ?<br /><br />She talked to people and she was pretty relieved the job didn't happen.<br /><br />"digging a well" does not mean you do it yourself, but I guess you know that and are just being a jerk.<br /><br />I don't know about the real estate prices near where her job was. We had talked about it in general. She now lives in Santa Monica which is almost as bad.<br />Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78634655329827108462017-10-09T15:21:06.032-05:002017-10-09T15:21:06.032-05:00Michael K said...
My daughter, the one who in...<i>Michael K said...<br /><br /> My daughter, the one who interviewed with Apple a dozen times, has now bought a 5 acre property in Idaho. She is trying to figure out what sort of dwelling to put on it. I suggested an RV until she can afford to build a small house. <b>First she needs to dig a well.</b></i><br /><br />Sounds like a lot of work. Maybe hire a guy to drill a well instead, and dig a hole for the septic tank.FullMoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541560904252155570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14390827923593080982017-10-09T15:09:38.388-05:002017-10-09T15:09:38.388-05:00She had finally decided on a small RV if the job m...<b>She had finally decided on a small RV if the job materialized but she still didn't know where she would park it.</b><br /><br />Anybody else remember Trapper John, MD?<br /><br />skip ahead to 22:55<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACAe2ASGngIRon Winkleheimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04176638872652336967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46937253204282900152017-10-09T15:01:29.701-05:002017-10-09T15:01:29.701-05:00Blogger Michael K said...
"Fuck the Gaur...<br /><i>Blogger Michael K said...<br /><br /> "Fuck the Gaurdian article. I do know better. I have property in the area, dumbass."<br /><br /> Do you have a hard on for everyone ?<br /><br /> Maybe this is why you have the history you have,<br /><br /> 10/9/17, 2:46 PM</i><br /><br />Nope. When you insinuate I am full of shit because you read an article by some asshole in the Guardian, while I actually know what I am talking about, I will mention it in a nice way. Same as I did months ago when I pointed out your Apple daughter could rent a two bedroom apartment in the area for around two thousand a month.FullMoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541560904252155570noreply@blogger.com