At $100-$1000 per house, the company could easily gift each hacker their very own house as a signing bonus if they stay on for at least x years. I'd take a free house (even in Detroit) over fee soda any day.
Myk O'Leary On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Sarah <[email protected]> wrote: > I was talking about this Detroit concept with a couple of people at sxsw. > As Robert said: > > >The problem is location, location, location. That was an twenty > >minutes from a traffic signal, hour from a small city and and hour > >and half from a bad airport that could at least get you a connecting > >flight to civilization about twice a day. > > And that's the beauty of Detroit. It already has airports and train > stations. It already has paved roads. For what you would spend on five > years of office rental in San Francisco, you could buy out ten square blocks > of three-bedroom houses in Detroit and fill them all with hackers. Imagine > the startup possibilities. And the beauty of hackers is that we can work > from anywhere. We seem to already be congregating into our own "tech" > cities, why not just take that last step and all be a bike ride from one > another? > > Sarah > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM, anders conbere <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Robert Eickmann <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Tumbleweed houses aren't that cheap... >> > >> > Looking at the website they are running about 36k-50k per house. >> > >> > Back in the midwest that is about right for a small house in certain >> > parts of the country. (You know the kind with a bedroom or two and a >> > bathroom). >> > >> > For example my family bought a 28 acre farm with a house and two out >> > buildings and a corn crib for $90k. >> > >> > I almost bought a wonderful two bedroom lake cottage that was fully >> > winterized with 30' of lake front for $120k. >> > >> > The problem is location, location, location. That was an twenty >> > minutes from a traffic signal, hour from a small city and and hour >> > and half from a bad airport that could at least get you a connecting >> > flight to civilization about twice a day. >> > >> > And to address Anders thought that you can build a community in >> > detroit if you buy enough of the land.... it won't work. To actually >> > form a community and not just have a bunch of young people without >> > children (because the second you even suggest to a mother about >> > putting their young child into the Detroit public school system, they >> > will rip you to pieces). I could tell you some serious horror stories >> > about Michigan schools... >> >> If only I could have claimed to make it up >> >> >> http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090313/LIFESTYLE/903130306 >> >> ~ Anders >> >> > >> > And if you were to actually build some nice houses and form a >> > community inside of the city of Detroit, the outside community will >> > tear you to pieces at every chance they can. Heck a local art >> > community (they had I think 120 people working on it) built a really >> > cool public art structure in a park last year with in three weeks it >> > was torched.... >> > >> > -Rob >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Patrick Haller >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:39:05PM -0700, Ryan Kabir wrote: >> >>> This thread made my day. The tumbleweed houses have me VERY excited. I >> could do >> >>> a shipping container as well. How difficult do you think it would be >> to get my >> >>> container loaded onto a ship *with me in it* ? >> >>> >> >>> mwahahhahaha >> >> >> >> It'd be cool to use the social impetus to find cheep housing to build a >> >> better community. i.e. if you think you'll be in one place for more >> than >> >> 5 years, getting a sub-5% mortgage on a condo with other like-minded >> >> people in the near units could work out well. >> >> >> >> Counter-cyclical investing = the goodness. ;) >> >> >> >> >> >> Patrick >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> > > >> > >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
