A young beautiful girl lives in her company’s bathroom because the prices of houses are too high for her to afford buying. This girl transformed this bathroom into her own “snail house”; within this room of not even 10 square meters she lives a life that is free and easy, with the key point being that it doesn’t cost money in July 2009.
This post features the bitter lives of snail houses of Chinese men and women from different areas of China. Take a look at the photos of these snail houses in China.
10 PhotosThese “snail home” containers have made a grand appearance and are available for rent at the cost of 6 yuan per day in Foshan. These shipping containers for living are approximately 3 meters across, six meters long and 2.8 meters high.
As general manager Chen Guangzhi of the Jugai company explains, this company is named Laosi Shipping Container Company [named after "Rolls"-Royce], and is originally from Shenzhen, Guangdong, and started this subsidiary business in Foshan just two months ago. He tells us at the present this is the first Foshan shipping container rental company.
A family of four’s “floating snail house” of 10 years. In 2000, old Wang relied upon his contacts within the shipbuilding industry to purchase this 24 meter long, 5.6meter wide old boat used for transporting cement for 8000yuan. It is upon this broken boat that he has constructed his new “home”.
At #252 in the Chahe section of the waterfront new village in Lai’an county, Anhui province on 3rd September, 2010. Wang Jiafu’s family of four that live aboard this broken boat as a “snail house” on the water.
Discarded minibus turned staff dormitory “a new version “snail house”. The “owner”, of this minibus Mr. Diao, is an attendant for the Donghewan neighborhood temporary parking lot, and this modified minivan is the dormitory for him and his colleagues.
At Chaotianmen in Yuchong district of central Chongqing there have appeared “house car people”—by having the seats removed with a bed in their place and an installed air-conditioner in July 2010.
Impoverished student’s home destroyed by rain, builds “snail house” in the trees. Wu Wanjie poor students is the Yulin City Yuzhou Qu, who in a four indigenous communities under the new group Maling’s a mud room. 5 years ago, a night in a mud house collapsed in a rain storm. Since then, the family will be staying to the grandmother’s mud room. I did not expect June 2, 2010 morning, a sudden heavy rain again destroyed his grandmother’s mud room, and the whole house just thirty-four square meters only a small kitchen and two blocking mud wall. As parents have no other skills, low income, the construction of new homes has become a luxury. In his brother’s suggestion, the brothers recruited door, ropes and plastic and other materials, take the tree had a bed to sleep in the trees after the two men goes back more than 20 days. Beds stand up to wind and rain by shaking the tree, the two had to withdraw from the tree.
7 apartments housing over 200 inhabitants, a real “Snail House” appears in Chongqing. In Nanan district of Chongqing city, a restaurant purchased 7 apartments, packing in at least 200 young men and women on May 9, 2010. Because out of many people, people living in the same district have to wait half an hour elevator, often strangers casually out of residential buildings, to sleep at night can hear the downstairs frolicking.
Retired miner digs 6 meters to make a “snail house”. 64-year-old retired miner Chen Xinnian takes his mining light and tools still picks up his mining light underground to tunnel. His goal was to dig out a three-room house underground in order to give his family better living conditions, everyday in shanty town in Zhengzhou. Chen Xinnian says that because of rocketing housing costs, he decided to dig out a house for his wife and children. Chen Xinnian lives in a shanty town where ten low, short houses are lined together, every household putting assorted possessions in the empty space at the front and back of their houses. In September 2010, After digging for 4 straight years, 50 square meters of space had been dug out and they moved in. Chen Xinnian’s yard takes up 40%, so he dug a “house” in his yard.
The most smallest, functional apartment made out of a staircase. One “Definitely the most amazing mini apartment on Tianya” post became popular on the internet on November 20, 2008. Apparently, in Shenzhen where land is expensive, a landlord actually used an unused stairwell to construct a fully functional mini apartment, and was named by netizens as history’s most niu, smallest, functional apartment with many netizens claiming to have been “shocked/stupefied“.The mini apartment is made out of an unused stairwell in a high-rise, with the apartment’s entrance on the second and third floor staircase. The passageway is approximately 1.5 meters wide, with many things placed on the steps and a computer desk and single bed placed at the corners of the stairwell. The entire place is narrow, but decorated to be rather cozy/comfortable.
This snail house resident inhabits an abandoned cement pipe, located on the south side of East Nigang Road and outside an enclosure on the north side of Honghu public park is a home that can be called Shenzhen province’s most niu “snail house”. The resident are said to be from Shangqiu, working away from home there are already some years, and recently also to work near a logistics company, has recently felt weary, but also not make much money, so just resign from the company moved out of the dormitory. He pointed behind him to be idle for a blanket covered a length of pipe, said: “Clean live here, no interference.” He said, his 40 year old, a driver’s license to drive, in the home with his wife and two children . Children have grown, so one person did not too much pressure out. Speaking of dwelling life, he said, you do not look for a length of pipe, who live there do not suffered, at the root point of mosquito coils, still slept very practical. “It was cold outside a while ago, can live in water, the two blanket one, not cold.”
More expensive than the luxury rental sea cage homes. Hong Kong’s densely populated, a large number of elderly poor people live in the great population density, old beds, each surrounded by barbed wire, dense trapped in called “caged” within. Hong Kong’s cage homes, also known as bedspace apartments, is a unit more than a dozen partners or tenants, and share kitchen and toilet. Caged in the elderly is indeed a very typical group, as living alone, living environment is poor, there is pain and suffering, high elderly suicide rate in Hong Kong. Inch of gold patch of land in Hong Kong, the poor would like to Find a safe shelter for really difficult. Luxury Victoria Towers in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong dollar 33 per square foot rent. The Kwun Tong a cage, the lower the rent per square foot beds should 41 million.
Source: Chinasmack
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