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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drzyma%C5%82a's_wagon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drzyma%C5%82a's_wagon

• gburt 11y ago
  This reminds me of the tiny house movement that avoids building regulations w.r.t. minimize size and grid hookup by putting wheels on their semi-permanent houses.
  • jacquesm 11y ago
    It's not exactly a tiny house movement invention, the Roma have been doing this for a very long time. There are also tax advantages to having wheels attached to your house, in plenty of places that means you're not paying property tax for the dwelling.
    • masklinn 11y ago
      > It's not exactly a tiny house movement invention, the Roma have been doing this for a very long time. For very different reasons, and theirs aren't semi-permanent. > in plenty of places that means you're not paying property tax for the dwelling. Then again in plenty of places (at least in western europe) you must have a permanent residence, so a mobile dwelling (whether an RV or a boat) can only be a secondary residence.
• corin_ 11y ago
  Also related to buildings, but in this case to avoid taxation - in the UK there was a "window tax", designed to be a progressive tax (the wealthier you are, the bigger your house, the more windows you have, the more tax you pay). To pay less tax, lots of people bricked up some of their windows so that the tax would go down without living in a smaller building. Now days that tax has been replaced in the UK by council tax, which is still progressive but based on house valuations rather than counting windows. You can still see some remnants of the tax avoidance, though, such as http://knowledgeoflondon.com/images/windowtax.jpg http://knowledgeoflondon.com/images/windowtax.jpg
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