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[–] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hmm, I guess they have to control it somehow. In US the land is super cheap, but even if you want to build a house yourself, you still have to goto contractors for materials and things, and everything ends up being more expensive than what a company can buy them for. So you end up with around the same price as a new house you can buy even if you save a bit of labor. Only people I've seen do it are people already in construction industry and can get materials for similar prices and use their connections for things

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    That's what I thought, and the person I spoke to is an architect. Maybe laws ate different in France, but I doubt it.

    Houses here are like 400k€ Minimum so that matters ofc.

    I'd love just having a community built somewhere, with people helping everyone. 🤗😌Is all.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Yeah, as someone who has moved so much, I miss community the most, and it looks like you can't really build a community. Specially not like the one you were born into. Where we grew up people did help each other, for houses you'd still need some people that are qualified and experienced, and people can chime in a bit of materials and labor. But when hiring help you still hired from your community.

    And when some quality of life improvements comes whole community would do it at once. Like I remember we moving from ventless oven to oven that vents outside and we got some of the tools as a community and tool turn using it so everyone improved their ovens for cheap

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