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For the past ten years, I’ve lived in your typ­i­cal sub­ur­ban, 3/2 brick ranch neigh­bor­hood. It has every­thing you could want for a fam­ily: Good schools, nice roads, pleas­ant land­scap­ing, and even a golf course in the mid­dle of it. The lawns are man­i­cured, the aza­leas neatly trimmed, and the chil­dren are all above average.

My neigh­bors and I have car­bon foot­prints the size of an over­grown Sasquatch.

I want to live some place else.

I want to live differently.

I want to live in a ship­ping con­tainer home.

Seri­ously.

They are made of steel. They are bug-proof, low main­te­nance, and eas­ily to assem­bly. They are also highly hur­ri­cane resis­tant, a huge bonus for where I live.  They are also rel­a­tively cheap, and the port a few miles from my lit­tle brick neigh­bor­hood has thou­sands of them on hand. Did I men­tion that they are the ulti­mate recy­clable home?  com­bine it with a no-maintenance yard away from the city, and my car­bon foot­print shrinks to a least a size 10.5 Teva recy­cled rub­ber shoe.

Here are some exam­ples of ship­ping con­tainer homes:

Yes, Ship­ping Con­tainer is the life for me. Now, all I have to do is con­vince my wife.