Friend of mine has a predilection for lofts. He used to have 3 roommates and 4500 square feet - half a floor of a factory in the fashion district. Skateboarding to the bathroom was a thing. There was this rug, and on it a couch, and surrounding it for about 40 feet in any direction was nothing. He's now got 1800 sqft on top of a former Masonic lodge; he's got a rug, and a couch, and a kitchen, and the rest of it you could park four cars with room to spare (if you could get them through the door, which you can't). So I totally get the appeal of vast swaths of empty. It happens to be woman-bane, though. The fair sex, in my experience, has little attraction to aircraft hangars. So yeah. A livable living space with enough accessory buildings to cover my hobbies and needs would be fine. Left to my own devices I'd have a shop shaped like an Ohmu and it'd be rad.
Can concur. I've lived in shitty places that were not much more than a roof, four walls, no leaks and decent neighbors all of whom understood we were living in a shit building. Know who lives in places like that? Single men saving to do some life goal, recently divorced guys making child support payments, immigrants who need a cheap place to live and not draw attention to themselves and maybe 1-2 women with nowhere else to go. And this is not the place with the vermin I've described elsewhere here, this place was on the border of "take a bullet monthly" and "not quite middle class but the schools don't suck." Those of you familiar with SoCal, and know where the Costa Mesa Freeway and the 405 come together can still see some of the places I used to live in a million years ago. There is something to be said for simplification like that... in a place like I just described you don't own many things because there is a real concern it will all be stolen as soon as you leave.It happens to be woman-bane, though. The fair sex, in my experience, has little attraction to aircraft hangars.