Parents are moving to Vermont and are retiring on a good bit of land. They're offering me a few acres in the back to live in. Wanting to do some light self sufficiency shit but the biggest issue is living space.
Given current cost of building materials would it be a good decision to build a modest 750ft^2 cottage on the property?
Just live in a tent and get materials and deals as they go along, like free shit online. You should first start with a temporary housing situation. I've seen plastic wrap houses, it would do well for a cheap temporary housing situation.
>Parents
>retiring
>acres in the back
Nothing against that, but do not underestimate that, be sure you know your parents
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My Mom lives only 2 streets apart from my grandma while,she got used to having instant support with one phone call, so she calls every day at-least 3 times.
while she still could walk to the local grocery store, no she phones and wants to be driven to the neighbor town because that one is bigger.
Can you come up with at least one sentence that isn't a trainwreck. (Apologies if english is not your first language.)
Build yourself a log cabin. It doesn't need to be a mansion. A simple one room cabin will do until you can get enough material to build something bigger.
Either he's having a stroke or Engrish ain't his first language. I believe the convilted point he was making is that living too close to your parents might mean they bug the shit out of you constantly.
Respect your elder people.
Don't worry we do.
But Mom is just tired of being treated like a personal butler.
Grandma just has no patience, if she decides she needs more Milk she will call my mum workplace and demand to speak her daughter to tell her she has to buy some on the way back to home. There is no i bring you milk tomorrow morning it needs to be asap.
Many children will never assert themselves, especially female children. Men should just leave home and make their fortunes. Not hard. Just decide not to be a shitbag.
Sounds very reasonable. Put a steep pitched roof on it so you get some space upstairs and it helps with snow load issues.
Get a job so you don't have to live within walking distance of your parents. Have you not seen the american hit sitcom, Every Loves Raymond?
I'm in a similar scenario, trying to figure out how to build something off grid. Probably just going to do an uncle Ted cuck shed, but it'd be cool if I could figure out icf or a pole barn. Apparently people can do aircrete with the normal four vertical walls shape by slipcasting instead of the ugly aircrete dome shape. Vermont I'd imagine has a lot of snow to contend with so roof could be challenging.
Total boomer death
where are you moving from?
Cali but dad's originally from Vermont.
Why do cancerfornians insist on spreading
>They're offering me a few acres in the back to live in.
Be very careful about the whole "going to move to be near the parents who are moving" thing. They're retiring, so they don't care about working to earn money. That doesn't necessarily apply to you.
Have a cousin who dropped her entire life to move in with her mother and grandfather -- neither of who were in good shape due to age and cancer -- when they moved from the city they lived in to a rural county a couple states away. She essentially had no job in the place they moved to, is hours away from a significant urban center, and hated it.
Bottom line, think carefully about whether it's worth it to uproot yourself just because your parents want to live in the sticks.
And if they're upset because their child doesn't follow them, they shoudl have thought about that before moving to the middle of nowhere.