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The prospect of having an N (where N>10) year mortgage on a house located in a tight city square block with a tiny trimmed yard or a toy-garden, modern head-to-head townhomes with neighbors who can watch you sleeping in a bedroom through a window or renting – appeared a bit unattractive and discouraging to me. Even if there was enough cash, spending it all on a new or used house stuffed with fiberglass or blown-in attic insulation, covered by gypsum material with unknown VOC paint from inside and synthetic Tyvek paper with vinyl siding on the outside – was neither an inspiring idea.
Update
The most popular technology of modern private homes construction, aka “stick frame building” has been effective for a rapidly evolving and thriving real estate developers business: it is well standardized, is believed to be cost effective and can be implemented at scale under aggressive time frames. It has also been approved by the appropriate federal and state Build and Health departments and assured to have zero health risks. Yet, I would argue with the latter… the proper metrics to prove it are located in the dimension that has not been pinpointed by the official scientific studies yet (e.g. impact on the energy level, immune system, quality of sleep, mental health etc.). I am pretty aware and sensitive to such dimensions, so I didn’t need an additional proof that using natural materials in a house construction will assure the best indoor air quality, living closer to the natural forest maximizes the outdoor air quality, which all together positively affect all aspects of health. Consuming living water was another indisputable benefit fueling my desire to move further away from urban locations – and there has been a real opportunity ✋.
✋ Well, in poor countries in some locations people are limited in their choice, but this is a separate topic, outside the scope of this blog.
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