"shipping Container" Accomodation

[Eve]

What do you think of this idea?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2450762/Shipping-containers-rented-London-homes.html

They look clean and cosy and could be a good alternative to living in squalid bedsits and the like with shared facilities.

Looks like they have a small hob, can't see any oven but maybe some space for a small microwave.

[McMouse]

The British Ambassador to Afghanistan uses a shipping container as a bedroom in Kabul.

[ChillDoubt]

Pah, absolute luxury.

4 of us used to live in one of those containers for 6 weeks at a time during The Troubles in N. Ireland.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HMU7gi_2s8s/S70QYMeT4CI/AAAAAAAAAHc/Bdhd31gvNLA/s1600/wyldon02_1.jpg

That's the OP on Slieve Gullion. We could observe a vast majority of South Armagh from there.
Her sister OP was on Creeve Keeran, an adjacent moutain.

[Backdrifter]

At Trinity Buoy Wharf in East London (right opposite the O2 dome) there's a whole stack of homes made from these containers, and an office block constructed from them too.

[China Doll]

Personally I think they're utterly hideous ans I would hate to live in one. I can see the logic and they probably are a good idea; but actually as a Londoner who also works in central London, I'd appreciate it if rents were pylled in to line more than having these boxes just so people can afford to live.