Thought you might be interested in this.
I first heard of this guy named 'Mike Oehler' in a BBC documentary, which followed various subcultures and eccentric groups in America.
This particular episode was about 'Survivalists'. It featured a boatload of weirdos, neo-nazis, armageddon paranoiacs, etc - and there was this chilled out hippie writer just doing his thing in a DIY hobbit home, which was almost invisible from outside.
He has a book out, which is the '$50 and up underground house book'. And also some detailed DVD's for ambitious projects. I'd like to add at this point that I do not know or have any contact in this bloke, and do not profit from any of this stuff! It just seemed relevant
Check out his website here for some pictures of amazing homes built for silly money: http://www.undergroundhousing.com/structures.html
It seems very exciting to me, as a university student, that instead of struggling to get on the UK property (snakes and-) ladder game, I could buy myself some gorgeous, cheap wooded/coastal land in somewhere like Bulgaria, and build myself an underground HQ for a fraction of the cost.
Any thoughts?
I first heard of this guy named 'Mike Oehler' in a BBC documentary, which followed various subcultures and eccentric groups in America.
This particular episode was about 'Survivalists'. It featured a boatload of weirdos, neo-nazis, armageddon paranoiacs, etc - and there was this chilled out hippie writer just doing his thing in a DIY hobbit home, which was almost invisible from outside.
He has a book out, which is the '$50 and up underground house book'. And also some detailed DVD's for ambitious projects. I'd like to add at this point that I do not know or have any contact in this bloke, and do not profit from any of this stuff! It just seemed relevant
Check out his website here for some pictures of amazing homes built for silly money: http://www.undergroundhousing.com/structures.html
It seems very exciting to me, as a university student, that instead of struggling to get on the UK property (snakes and-) ladder game, I could buy myself some gorgeous, cheap wooded/coastal land in somewhere like Bulgaria, and build myself an underground HQ for a fraction of the cost.
Any thoughts?