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I am in the midst of planning a major move and it looks like I am going to wind up in either a tiny home or a single-wide mobile home so that I can afford to bu

I am in the midst of planning a major move and it looks like I am going to wind up in either a tiny home or a single-wide mobile home so that I can afford to build up the company I'm trying to get started. I think this article misses a major problem that people in precarious circumstances in their lives face when trying to secure housing that isn't either traditional residential mortgage or rental in corporate owned apartment complexes... and that is exploitation. Until exploitation of the working classes is reduced there are going to continue to be problems with housing.

Scoundreller 7y ago
Why not move to a low-cost of living country with good internet ?
- Quequau 7y ago
  I am having to return to America to care for a family member. So I my choices are somewhat limited, at least for as long as my presence is required at their home. Also, I'll tell you that trying to start a business, even a side business, in a country you're not already really familiar with can be really painful.
BubRoss 7y ago
You aren't working class of you are trying to get your own company started.
- ehvatum 7y ago
  It's perfectly possible to do on a coding salary... in Missouri. I did it, and in fact I still am doing it. I still have have my day job. My big expenses are heavy industrial equipment leases ($7k/mo), electricity ($2k/mo in the summer), and titanium ($1-10k/mo, depending on order volume). I mostly make pistol grips. The CNC machines run all day while I code, and I live in a camper inside an aircraft hangar at my factory. It's beautiful. I'm not an expert on LA, but I really don't think I could have made my dream a reality in that particular place. I think I'm working class... I certainly work a lot and I go to work during the day :-)
  - Quequau 7y ago
    This is amazingly close to my current game plan... though I don't do anything related to weaponry.
- Quequau 7y ago
  Sorry to tell you that having a side business to get by is nothing but working class. Suffering from the delusion that you're not a member of the proletariat when the plain fact is that you are is the path to bankruptcy and poverty.
- tomcam 7y ago
  What is your reasoning?
Quequau 7y ago
Hmmm. Perhaps folks are assuming that I live in LA, making a few hundred thousand a year, am trying to not pay out the needed cash for traditional housing even though I could easily afford it, and am trying to concoct the next pogostick / juice squeezing startup. I do not currently live in America and I have no plans or interest in living any where in or near California. I am leaving a part time job working on industrial sensor development and a full time income producing hobby of metal working to go to a small town in Tennessee to care for my remaining parent while she lives out what's left of her life.

Scoundreller 7y ago

Why not move to a low-cost of living country with good internet ?

Quequau 7y ago
I am having to return to America to care for a family member. So I my choices are somewhat limited, at least for as long as my presence is required at their home. Also, I'll tell you that trying to start a business, even a side business, in a country you're not already really familiar with can be really painful.

BubRoss 7y ago

You aren't working class of you are trying to get your own company started.

ehvatum 7y ago
It's perfectly possible to do on a coding salary... in Missouri. I did it, and in fact I still am doing it. I still have have my day job. My big expenses are heavy industrial equipment leases ($7k/mo), electricity ($2k/mo in the summer), and titanium ($1-10k/mo, depending on order volume). I mostly make pistol grips. The CNC machines run all day while I code, and I live in a camper inside an aircraft hangar at my factory. It's beautiful. I'm not an expert on LA, but I really don't think I could have made my dream a reality in that particular place. I think I'm working class... I certainly work a lot and I go to work during the day :-)
- Quequau 7y ago
  This is amazingly close to my current game plan... though I don't do anything related to weaponry.
Quequau 7y ago
Sorry to tell you that having a side business to get by is nothing but working class. Suffering from the delusion that you're not a member of the proletariat when the plain fact is that you are is the path to bankruptcy and poverty.
tomcam 7y ago
What is your reasoning?

Quequau 7y ago

Hmmm. Perhaps folks are assuming that I live in LA, making a few hundred thousand a year, am trying to not pay out the needed cash for traditional housing even though I could easily afford it, and am trying to concoct the next pogostick / juice squeezing startup. I do not currently live in America and I have no plans or interest in living any where in or near California. I am leaving a part time job working on industrial sensor development and a full time income producing hobby of metal working to go to a small town in Tennessee to care for my remaining parent while she lives out what's left of her life.