She Escaped Bay Area Rent By Commuting From Her Gorgeous Country Tiny Home
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Kimberly saw how much apartments went for in San Francisco and decided to commute to her Tiny Home On Wheels. She is not the first person I have met who works in the city but lives simply in the country.
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You might find a lovely location as an accessory unit in Sebastopol. Lots of people have them hidden away there, and it’s closer to SF
I want to know as well.
I used to live in Sebastopol, it’s such a cute town! 😊
@@MotherofDragons937 it still is! Never changes =)
@@DragonHeartTree I’m in Petaluma now 😊
Put an add on Craigslist for someone to let you park on their property on the cheep. It’s easy passive income for the owner and the few bucks you put out on renting a spot will spare you that horrible commute giving you more time to enjoy life. Look and see if there are any small farms in a closer area and possibly trade labor and maybe make lifelong friends!!! Great home and mad respect for making it happen, just want you to be able to enjoy it!! Thanks for sharing!!
I love the kitchen and bathroom! The bedroom ignites my claustrophobia.
Beautiful tiny house but have a hard time imagining the 5 hour commute!
Very nice home! Folk be kind, its horrible the sacrifices people must make for housing, especially in this region of the country.
Dear heart, hopefully finding a job where you can commute most days, or a closer job would be helpful. It is wearing on you and your vehicle. I wish you well in your new home. Take care of you.
this is the first tiny home ive seen (ive seen many) whose living room feels like a real living room.. love it!!!
5 hour commute......I'd definitely be looking at moving the tiny home closer. That's the beauty of those things being portable. But I'm sure it would be quite an undertaking moving one of those, and finding a location. They aren't like RVs, which move much easier.
No job is worth a 5 hour a day commute, bad on the health, bad on the environment
For real!!!!
She has no choice at this time. I bet at some point she'll move closer. 😊👌
Beautiful home! Hope you find a job closer to where you live or find a location closer to work. If I had that beautiful home I would love to enjoy more time at home than on the road, but I know we all have to do what we need to do, I do a 3 hour commute - it takes a large piece of my day away. Thanks for sharing, your home is absolutely cozy. Favorite spot is that kitchen! Awesome job :)
Oh man there are so many wonderful things about this tiny house!!
It’s pretty but the commute no way. Love the kitchen , but I couldn’t do the bedroom like that 😫
spellingbee2000 I couldn’t sleep in the bed. The house is really nice!
I love the roomy set-up in this home. Love her art too!
Your Tiny House is really lovely, and to have it constructed to your preferred layout it priceless.
Owning the place you live in over renting is a benefit all of it's own.
Your artwork is outstanding, beautiful and unique, and looks fantastic in your living room.
Yours is a home that looks and feels homely, welcoming and really lovely to live in.
Thank you for sharing it with us viewers.
5 hour commute is a bit much, but i know several people in the bay area right now doing 4 hour a day commutes to SF bay area. On one hand the salaries in SF are high, but the commute is grueling. My commute was 3 hours a day at one point. We just need a better more expansive transit system. BART (the transit system here) doesn't extend long enough and people commute almost an hour to their nearest Bart station sometimes. You can thank Koch brothers for lobbying against public transit for decades in the US. Several other countries have us beat in public transportation, while everyone here is clogging the highways with their cars.
WhenItsHalfPastFive Dumb ass liberal
There has got to be a closer location to park your home, say in the Oakland Hills maybe? Or Marin? 5 hour commute each day is just not sustainable for you.
I like Isleton... get out there often as I like to tour the delta on my jet ski.
Beautiful home you have... very comfortable, beautifully decorated.
Love the art :) Very cute build and she seems very nice
Just need a good foam mattress half that deep which will make all the difference in that loft
Lovely home. I do hope you find somewhere closer to park your home.
If u want to stay in a pricey area like California, then having a tiny house is an advantage. I think other, more affordable states/citied would be ideal 4 something bigger. Nice house and lay out. I'd have to have a higher bedroom ceiling tho.
Especially coming from a nomadic and mobile community, I find the comments on this video interesting and maybe generational. As a District Manager, I drive an average of of 5-6 hours per day, plus my time in the stores. I am totally vested in this company, whom I have my Health Insurance, matched 401 K, Short term and Long term disability with. I hate paying high living costs and when I get out of traffic, I enjoy spending time on the open road talking with family and friends and when I get home I enjoy my private time. You go girl!
Shannon: I think all the comments about her commute are coming from people with control issues. Geez, it’s her life not theirs!
@@hikerhobby1204yeah, right? I thought her home was sweet and cozy and in my opinion a better option, for so many reasons, than sleeping in a van in a parking lot close to work.
5 hours commute...there is no home time left.
I could never live like that. I have 20 min each way and would not go more than 40.
joyce Pollitt. I don't know how long this lady has been commuting five hours daily, but I guarantee you it will get old quickly. I commuted a total of three hours daily for about a year. I was exhausted all the time and had to go to bed shortly after arriving home. Also you are not as mentally alert because the long commute is hard on your body mentally and physically. The mental fatigue can cause you to make mistakes at work. I will never commute more than 35 to 40 minutes one way ever again.
@@bonnievandergriff8272 fuck commuting for real
That's almost average in the bay area.
Beautiful home, I wish for you that you find a spot closer to work, so you can have more time to relax and to enjoy your home . Many blessings to you
Gorgeous home. Long commute, though!
Whut! 5 hrs a day travel time is so much "life-time" lost☹️omigosh!! Id for sure end up sleeping downstairs..no way. Must be sooo fun to change the sheets! lol
Your place feels very homey and real. If I were a single gal, I'd probably do something similar. I live in the Bay Area and I know how expensive it is. I hope you can find some place closer to SF to park, though. You have a good attitude. Best of luck!
Dang 5 hours she should have done a Skoolie.
Love the kitchen, would eliminate the dishwasher and put trash snd recycled there. I love the bathroom
It’s a beautiful Tiny House on Wheels, thank you for sharing.
Have a good week-end.
I'd be cutting that mattress in half 😳
I would get a van to live in during the week and skip that 5 hour commute. Don't know how she does it. I can barely make it thru a 30 minute commute during the school year. (Increased traffic).
5h commute/day= no health at all in a couple of years.
Serendipity ..so much "life time" waste!
Ikr. I had to go back and listen again to make sure I heard it correctly.
Exactly!! But for some people saving money is way more important than a healthy lifestyle.
@@mutednoise8769 She won't be saving anything if she looses her health. Also money can't buy all the lost time.
Serendipity (love your screen-name) I totally agree with you. You can have millions to spend but if you're too tired, sick, or debilitated to spend it what good is it?
What a lovely home ! The kitchen and bedroom are amazing; actually the entire place is. The commute...Na...I drove hours some days to and from work related destinations, not during downtime for sure. We do what we gotta do and I respect your determinatin ! Keep your maintenance up and it might surprise you..🤗🤗🤗
Wow that 5 hour commute is going to get old really fast.
25 hours a week commuting is too much. such a waste of valuable time to not enjoy life.
Now is the time for humanity to unite and create small self sustainable communities..peacefully turn away from the matrix.
I live in the SF Bay Area and that commute is pretty normal even when you live IN the city or around it. I used to live in suburb daly city and when my job in SF transferred to another locations (palo alto, sunnyvale, and some days i was at santa clara), the commute easily turned into 2 to 2.5 hours on weekdays because everybody was commuting on the road! on weekends, the same commute is only 35 to 45 minutes! traffic is terrible. now i live 45 minutes southeast of SF in the East Bay and decided to work near where I live. yes, this job since the last 6 years moves me around also, but all in "close" proximity that I can get to on local road; maybe freeway some days. I never heard of Isleton, but now I see it's near Sacramento/state capital...and I've been hearing for years that people have been doing the same (as it's also on the news every week) of someone also commuting 3 + hours to SF work and then back home.
I guess you chose the best for you! even all the places closer to SF charge higher rental costs for RV places and tiny homes. but I do understand the feeling of coming home and then all the feelings melt away that you can relax. My father's coworker bought a house in Medford, Oregon and he commuted 8 hours on the weekends to go to his home and then stayed with a friend during the week to work in SF, also. So I understand what many people do with tiny homes or affordable housing.
Did you say 5hour day commute or something else
Exactly. What's the point if you are commuting FIVE hours a day. That seems like a terrible way to live.
5 hour commute, that's mad!
It’s not unusual for people who work in LA, San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego to be forced several hours from the city for housing. The housing shortage and the exorbitant housing costs have forced people further and further away. Californians are throwing in the towel, as well and leaving for Colorado, New Mexico, the Pacific Northwest and other areas and using the monies that they make selling their house to buy in the communities they move to. Unfortunately, this is driving the costs of housing up for the locals in their new communities and forcing them out of the housing market. The millennials (and others ) are starting to reject the expense and lifetime mortgages and going smaller and more mobile. They re living in tiny houses, buses, vans and homesteading and moving their employment off site to work at home or on the road or refusing to enter the traditional work environment to create their own avenues to sustain their lifestyles. There seem to be more professional TH-camrs, self employment, new business models and I don’t know what else. I am interested to see what impact this will have on the housing market and for employers.
I am here in Tampa Bay Area Florida, crying about 55minute a day commute. Can imagine tmwhat 5 hours a day feels like.
Why not move the home closer to where you work? Isn't that the whole purpose of a movable tiny home?
Love your home
Lovely home. Thanks for sharing!
Lovely tiny home god Bless. You💓🙏
I chime in with these other comments, I'd say if at all possible try to find something that would let you work from home maybe just go into the office once a month or at most once a week. Unless you absolutely LOVE your job, then it is what it is!
Wow that is a very long commute. But a little lot in Santa Rosa or even Ukiah or lake county. Will be closer commute. You own you little house and your land pay it off and be ready for retirement. I am looking at this time myself. 😍😍 Be Safe God Bless.
Sorry I hate the bedroom area, it's like sleeping in a coffin with that dark wood ceiling, I couldn't cope with that and bet it gets hot and clostraphobic.
Its not so much how high the ceiling is. Thats normal for a tinyhouse. Its more the height of the bed. Needs lowering.
JMK 👍😱
Yes. I couldn't breathe in that sleeping loft.
That's what I was thinking when I saw the "bedroom" 😳 For me this house is too cramped. Too much cabinets, drawers etc. and all different styles - makes me nervous. And yes, 5 hours commute is hell. It is stress!.
I couldn’t do that either. It almost looks like you can’t even sleep sideways in that bedroom!
This is a cute place but it always amazes me when folks put the stove next to the fridge without a buffer, makes the fridge run harder. That would be a deal breaker for me. Been there done that.
I could not do a five hour commute every day.
Beautiful Home 🏠
5 hour commute? Daily? What a time suck!!! Is it even worth it to get home only to go to sleep and get up the next morning and leave again?
So nice that yor front door does not open up right into yor living room like a lot of tiny homes do...u have more prvacy that way. Sorry about yor commute but sounds like u found a way to make things work to afford to live.
Great job Mam!😁😄
What did your home cost?
Great home and location! 💞 she does a 5 hr a day commute but maybe she takes some combination of public transportation and her car. That's what I would do if I could. Also SF generally pays more than other areas. Besides, if she's close to retirement, it's probably worth it. 😊
Cool tiny house. Although I recommend that she move her fridge, not close to the stove. Electricals shouldn't be close to a fire. Commuting is the hardest thing, take care of your health.
how do you find a spot to park your home? I have been doing some research on tiny homes in or close to monterey... but lots are hard to come by and there are many regulations.. are you in an RV park? they also limit time on stays.
I like the tiny house but I could never deal with a sloping bedroom..I am tall and would not like to be hitting my head no matter what and I never could get use to it. I like the kitchen and the bathroom set up too. I would not or rather could not commute 2 1/2 hours each way to and from work because the gas right now here in California is around $5 a gallon and I have big car.
She is lovely but could she work virtually from home? Washer in the living room? Bedroom is really tight.
This lady is insane. So is that 2.5 hours there and 2.5 back, or 10 all day? That’s so wasteful. All the money your saving by hitting your head every morning you’re throwing away hurting your butt driving half your life. Plus the odds of a car accident is way higher. Girl, I guarantee there is a better solution. Also, at the beginning we saw a peak of your outside area which looked very cozy and you mentioned being in your outdoor area most of the time, but then didn’t even show it!
dr love Amen!!!!!!!
i love isleton! love this house too
5 hour commute? That's awful. Hope her company allows work from home a few days/week.
Beautiful tiny house. But l would die in that loft bedroom. No head room the ceiling is to low, I would feel like I'm in a coffin. You should add a skylight for extra height and head space
I definitely need to have more head room, but good she doesn't mind it
My dream house!
Price of the tiny home?
Just wondering why the dish washer is so far from the sink?
Pretty setting to park your Tiny home.
I've noticed that alot of the Tiny Homes have almost zero head room for bedroom/ loft areas. Why?? I sawed off myself (short in stature) and that would drive me crazy. Would it be so bad to get a few more inches?
Your tiny house is gorgeous, but the bed situation would be claustrophobic for me
Nice Tiny house, just nice...because the ceiling bedroom is too low...looks uncomfortable and claustrophobic.
Literally roll out of🛏👈🏿
Tiny house? We use to call those trailer parks.
Eventually your governor will find a way of making tiny home living expensive also. Sign that bill to remove him before it's too late
5 hours on the road every work day adds up to Seven point Four - 7 day vacations PER YEAR! Kimberly must be worth her weight in Gold, Silver, Platinum and Diamonds to feel it's worth it to drive this much. Happy for her but would not be my choice.
where did you get the bathroom sink?
Cute tiny home but 5 hour commute is just plain stupid. Is there really no job alternative at all???
Did she say 5 hour a day commute!? WTF!
To each their own, it looks like she lives in a trailer park & a five hour commute. Not for me, but if she likes it, more power to her
Love the house but......Is there a crime against making the loft area just as tall as the bottom floor!?! She can't stand in her bedroom but her bottom floor is enough for two homes. She's got very high ceilings on the bottom floor.
If she's going to tow it, movi it, she has to get under bridges. So yeah there are height limits.
I was thinking similar. Should have made the bottom floor shorter. She said her cabinets were a little high. Build to the customers height. She'd be better off making her couch a pullout bed, and storing stuff upstairs.
FIVE HOUR COMMUTE IS INSANE? Unless she is making 250,000 in the Bay Area than she is foolish. What a complete waste of your time. That would drain the soul out of me.
Like her tiny house...very well thought out iMHO..
One thing I'm surprised hasn't taken off w/in the THC (Tiny Home Community) is using folding staircases for accessing loft/bedroom, as seen here:
th-cam.com/video/Y2lV7w65GyE/w-d-xo.html
Side Note: I know a lot of builders use the under-staircase for storage but in the case of say a 2nd loft, I think that would be a good option to incorporate.
I don't mind living in a tiny house,but a 5hr commute? No way.
Why use a wide angle lens?
She never said how much this tiny home costed. It's an OK home but the bedroom is very unconfortable even with the bed lowered. No, it didn't have to be this way there are so many great designs and solutions for the bedroom she definitely could have found something if she had done better research.
That's like he driving to Miami everyday. There is no way I could do that.
It's beautiful but I can't with lofts so tiny as that! She has eqsquisite taste I love her decor but a big nope on the loft
5 hours commuting from Oregon to SF both way? It cannot be only 2 1/2 hours from the Oregon border to SF?
Anyway there is no awesome tiny house worthy over putting self trapped in a car for many hours in heavy traffic. Best wishes to you both.
She said she lives in Isleton, CA not Oregon. Maybe its the Tiny Home Builders might be what you heard are from Oregon.
5 hour commute? No way I.'ll be too tired to work.
Pauseeeee did she say 5hr commute omg
Can you take BART from Antioch instead of driving the whole way to SF? At least you could read and relax on the train instead of being in traffic for that whole time.
Subtitles are hilarious!
All it was perfect but the composting toilet ufff nooo 👎
Chris how do I email you ???
These lofts are so claustrophobic.I couldn’t do it.When you sleep you need space and oxygen.
5 hours a day????
Lovely home, shame you have to travel so far to work.
All that is left to do is get rid of the anchor that is costing you money just to make a living a new job that pays you not to spend what you make working for the job or at lest get them to pay the commute cost of time and your cash to make them money...
👍👍👍
5 hour commute per day is just crazy. You are spending almost 1/6 of your life in a car driving back and forth to work. An extra 25 hours of work a week is a part time gig of job at $20 per hour will make you an extra $500 a week or $2000 extra per month. That difference alone will supplement closer living arrangements or a blend of something in the middle.
In those 5 hours you could work more and make the difference of a closer drive. That will wreck your back and your health and who knows how many bad weather close to accident situations you get yourself into with that much driving. Plus with that bedroom there is no fire exit if anything catches downstairs and you are trapped. Get a thinner mattress at least and make sure that window has an exit.
Maybe Uber airplane rides! Lol
Cost of living is too high Now
5 Hour commute to SF??
Claustrophobic bedroom!!!😱
5 hr compute??? wth! can’t she do some remote working? it’s the 21st century
What is up with the bedroom? That is just crazy.
Whatever - everyone has their life.
40 hr commute? How's your social life
Steve Gibson, do you think she is working an 8-day week? I think the weekly commute would be 25 hours. ;)