Friday Funny: Weighing the Pros and Cons of Tiny Houses

The Onion takes a pretty straightforward approach to satirizing the tiny house movement this week. Imagine, if you will, an earnest Portlander sketching out a list of pros and cons, including the following:

Pros

• "Paints inability to afford a real home as positive life choice"
• "Allows you to live the simple life your ancestors did everything in their power to escape"
• "Home comes fully supplied with 20 years of small talk"

You could be laughing or crying after reading those examples. How about the flip side of the coin:

Cons

• "Spending quality time with family members all but unavoidable"
• "Lack of diversity in a neighborhood composed entirely of other people whose novels didn’t sell"
• "Have to live there"

I guess we know what The Onion's staffers think of tiny homes, but to be fair, the idea always did invite satire.