@mdm that was the case in the past, iirc, but there were some new statewide zoning laws pst recently that complicate things, if I'm understanding what I've been reading correctly.

Looks like it's pretty hard to get a tiny seemed a permanent residence, which makes living in one full time technically illegal.

@ajroach42 Having lived in mobile homes for a large part of my life, I'd be very surprised if you couldn't just plop a tiny house down somewhere in one of the "nicer" "mobile home communities" and anybody would care one way or the other, as long as you paid your lot fee.

@mdm yeah! I was considering that too, but there are some legal restrictions even there. Minimum size, have to get it certified as a mobile home by (I think it was the DMV?)

And paying lot rent kind of defeats the purpose of having a home that's paid off, you know?

@ajroach42 Well, you're always going to be paying *something* to live, either taxes, or a lot fee, or both. :p Lot fees are always rather cheap -- I think of them kinda like an HOA.

@mdm that's probably true for Ga. it's not true everywhere, though. Like, Texas has no property tax and lenient zoning, in most places in Texas I could live rent free.

Alabama also has relaxed zoning laws, and doesn't charge property tax on buildings under 500 sqft.

A trailer park is probably where we'll end up, but I want to make sure that's our best option.

@ajroach42 Wow -- TIL about Texas today. Makes sense -- I guess you can still have local property taxes, but yeah, I'm sure some places have zero property tax at all.

The problem with Alabama though, is that, well, it's Alabama. :p

@mdm that's the problem with Texas, too!

Honestly AL isn't too bad, and it's only about an hour from where I want to be in GA. But it's also an hour to get to *anything*.

I can walk to sixteen restaurants right now, I can't cope with that radical of a shift.

@pinkprius getting ready to move in to a 580 sqft place back in GA. It’s not exactly tiny, but it’s legal.