Preview: "Shipping containers" have yet nothing to do with "housing" in Romania. Is there any chance that they will soon? Belonging to Eastern European block Evan Longoria Youth Jersey , released in 1989 from communist oppression, Romania has already experienced 15 years of less and less stunning freedom.
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I read a few articles about shipping container housing. It took me about five minutes to realize this subject makes your mind frolic endlessly on an imaginary (however not utopian) land. Those articles belong to some very respectable gentlemen (at least that was the impression they made on me, at first reading) ? that praise living in shipping containers.
Let's go cheap
A 40 foot-long shipping container could reach to $1,500-2,000. I started asking myself questions about how this subject could become a solution for homeless people in Romania (that's where I live) Joey Wendle Womens Jersey , where flats cost (at least) $20,000. And they're not 40 foot-long.
At the same time, Romania has a lot of peripheral categories: the poor, the old, the young Austin Meadows Womens Jersey , the unemployed, the pitman, the gypsy, the orphan, the student.
Could they benefit from this recent discovery that living in some kind of shoe-boxes can be really cool and trendy? I'll try to answer that.
A few advantages from a Romanian point of view: for peripherals it's cheap Jake Smolinski Womens Jersey , for artists it's unconventional the subject is quite green you can "camp" anywhere you want (Romania has not few spectacular landmarks) the result you get using shipping containers can be anywhere between "plastic" and "platinum", practical and fantasy, serious and ludic - you can move your "house" around. At least that's what LOTEK people are trying to prove by their "mobile dwelling unit" project. Earthquakes, floods and sliding land are some serious problems in Romania, so being able to leave the place at a snail's pace may be useful. - most Romanians live in blocks of flats that pretty much look like overcrowded shipping containers (and usually inadequate to modern standards: water supply Brandon Lowe Womens Jersey , heating, insulation, comfort etc). Could shipping container houses actually mean a reasonable escape? Maybe, if they are properly transformed and adapted to living conditions. - A sad fact is that few Romanians actually have the possibility to pay $2,000 cash for a house-to-be.
If you are not a Romanian 2007 could be Michael Perez Womens Jersey , in the optimist version, the year that Romania will join EU. Compared to Western standards, Romanian land properties are very cheap. Land-purchase conditions are the same for both Romanians and foreigners.
A few observations to Mr Doug Casey's reportage about his Romanian adventure ( ).
Given the reasons Mr. Casey liked Romania, I quickly made some "counts". The average Romanian needs to work (at a medium economy salary rate of $11 per day) 2272 days to buy an apartment; or, 103 months (I excluded weekend days of course Blake Snell Womens Jersey , they don't pay); or 9 years. This without considering any interest. And supposing that this particular individual doesn't eat, dress or pay rent. Just work his butt off. In real terms, he needs more than nine years, probably 25. That's pretty much for an average ephemeride that lives an average 75 years life.
Mr. Casey's mentioning of the brief trial and execution of the Ceausescu couple has suddenly brought to my senses a smell of a Dogville atmosphere that I have never before associated with Romania. Of course, I'm talking about the movie dog-ville Yandy Diaz Womens Jersey , not the real one.
That takes me back to the initial idea that shipping container housing is a subject that gives you some chalk drawn-squares (or parallelepipeds in our case) that make you want to play like kids do with their Lego pieces.
But here are a few more questions:
Where do you find those imaginative grown-ups that are able to play with shipping containers in a coherent artful manner?
What would their work be worth in the end?
How much do utilities cost (water, energy, gas supply etc.)?
Would the authorities be open to hear this as an alternative solution to traditional housing?
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