• Turun
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        12 years ago

        For your heart maybe, but the rest of you is gonna feel cold. That hobbit hole needs to be heated a lot.

        I lived in a student complex once, similar to the top right examples, and I never once had to turn on the heating. Dirt cheap too.

  • @Moghul@lemmy.world
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    202 years ago

    I empathize with the feeling of living a simpler, happier life, but living like a hobbit would suck for a lot of us.

    Indoor plumbing, sewage, electricity and internet, are all way more important to the kind of people who are on this site than they might expect. In addition to that, if you’ve never lived in the countryside, rural living and basic peasant subsistence farming is fucking awful. You are constantly working maintenance and rebuilding damaged property. You’re always dirty, smelly, and tired.

    • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      72 years ago

      but like rural people have plumbing, electricity, and internet? the internet one is absolutely trivial nowadays with 4g routers

      • @Moghul@lemmy.world
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        32 years ago

        To my knowledge, hobbit holes have none of those amenities. You can make one of these in a city or suburb if you can get the permit, it’ll just be a strange looking house. That’s not how I interpreted the post.

        • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          42 years ago

          why wouldn’t you assume people want modern niceties? that seems like a pretty obvious thing to assume.

          and again, there’s no reason you can’t have this stuff in a rural place, it’s not like rural people in sweden have outhouses and drive to the nearest city to use the internet…

          just install a septic tank, drill a well, slap up solar panels and a small wind turbine, and get a 4g router.

          • @Acklavidian@lemmy.world
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            22 years ago

            Yeah our coverage maps look pretty good too. However, in practice the service can be very hit and miss… mostly miss.

  • Troy
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    152 years ago

    I keep bumping my head on the roof tho

  • Ech
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    122 years ago

    Do hobbit holes get the gigabit hookup?

  • Dem Bosain
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    92 years ago

    A city near where I lived had an underground house that looked like this. It was the “house of the future” because of reasons I don’t remember. I passed by it a few years ago, and it looked empty, overgrown and run down.

    • Troy
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      52 years ago

      I have a distinct memory of driving past a house like that repeatedly as a kid, but that was decades ago now. Tried searching for it now and cannot find it. I suspect it suffered a similar fate. Can’t find any photos or references to it online though, so maybe I imagined it…

    • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      52 years ago

      Apparently has plenty of light inside. I wonder if the cold would eventually seep in. Or what the plants and water are going to do to the structure.

      • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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        32 years ago

        A meter of soil is a pretty good insulator. There is plenty of more newer houses built like this by enthusiasts, that practically go without extra heating or ac, because the sun warms it up enough in winter and the soil keeps it cool enough in summer.

  • @wahming
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    82 years ago

    We’ve kinda figured out suburbia is really bad for multiple reasons though

    • @wieson@feddit.de
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      42 years ago

      Hobbiton is not suburbia, neither are actual villages with a village centre, a small shop and a bus stop.

  • @xylogx@lemmy.world
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    82 years ago

    The Shire is great and all but I always want to live in a tree city since reading about Lothlorien.

  • @WallEx@feddit.de
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    82 years ago

    Sadly the density is shit, so it’s not really viable

    Would still love it, also great meme

  • Beefalo
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    42 years ago

    Hobbits walking past the hobbit hole in the pic like motherfuckin gentrification buildings brah, this rent is already too high, I gotta use my gun more