Many Americans are moving into extremely small living quarters, simplifying their lives and putting less focus on material goods. The Onion examines the pros and cons of “tiny houses”:
PRO
- Paints inability to afford a real home as positive life choice
- Allows you to live the simple life your ancestors did everything in their power to escape
- Likely too cramped for ghosts to bother haunting
- Refrigerator as close to bed as you’ve always dreamed
- 4’-by-3’ velvet Allman Brothers Band poster gets the decorating job done on its own
- Home comes fully supplied with 20 years of small talk
CON
- Anxious pacing route severely restricted
- Spending quality time with family members all but unavoidable
- Meticulously charting out who gets to use the electrical outlet each night can be somewhat draining
- Most documentaries on the subject already wrapped
- Lack of diversity in a neighborhood composed entirely of other people whose novels didn’t sell
- Have to live there