Not to put too fine a point on it, our house is old and falling apart and in a shitty part of town. When I go into the basement I always think the house is on the verge of collapse: the concrete on the floor is hollow from having water frozen under it, the concrete of the walls will come off in sheets and is reinforced with glue and some flaking paint, and the wooden frame is a hundred years old.
With that in mind you might understand why lately I’ve been doing my normal thing where I obsess about the imperfections of something and try to imagine a way that I could make a better, perfect thing, immune to all the problems and insecurities of the thing I actually possess. Specifically, I’ve been scheming about how I could have a super safe house that would be so solidly constructed I wouldn’t have to worry about stupid shit like water damage or hail damage or weird leaks or fukl0rd insects infesting it, or the front yard disappearing in a landslide. And I wouldn’t have to worry about burglars breaking into it – I’d be able to lock it down like a fortress, create a fire corridor around the only entrance, secure my air supply, and if worst came to worst escape out of a secret bolt hole disguised as a tree, or emerge from an airlock underneath a lake. Or something.
I despaired of ever making this happen in reality until I found this site. If I still had that job in NH I could have a house like this! You can build one for the same price as a traditional house, and then clean up by paying almost nothing for utilities! God damn it, why didn’t I think about this earlier?
Just wait till I have a real job again. My secret bunker house, with a reconfigurable interior metal lattice, and cafe-style seating, _will_ be a reality.