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It is the latest boom in real estate to sweep the nation complete with all the features of luxury living such as indoor pools, gyms, basketball courts and in some rare cases room for your private airplane.
The only catch is that the property is buried deep underground in bomb shelters designed to escape the apocalypse.
Once thought of as spartan concrete tombs where heads of state and concerned families could wait for the nuclear fall out to drop, bomb shelters have over the past 15-years become highly desirable - with developers rushing to offer custom installations.


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Hi-tech underground survival shelters -are going through a boom since the panic over the Mayan calender and the purported end of the world last year

Now, some developers create 100,000 square foot underground homes that could also potentially house families for year - in the unlikely event of a disaster.
'You can have all your major amenities: TV, high power and high voltage (appliances)... horticulture rooms where you can grow vegetables and gardens, a full shower, all the amenities of your full home,' said Brad Roberson, marketing director for Rising S Company, which builds and installs custom shelters.  
'We're not limiting what people can do.'


A basic 'starter' bunker 10 feet by 20 feet starts at $54,000 explained Roberson, while the most expensive bunkers on offer go up to $10 million .
'Budget and imagination are the only limits,' said Roberson to ABC News.
Another firm who produce corrugate pipe shelters are Utah Shelter Systems - offering an eight foot diameter by 32-foot length shelter for $50,000.

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The luxurious bomb, nuclear and chemical weapon proof bunkers are kitted out with beds, kitchens, flushing toilets and even fireplaces. Ron describes them as 'recreational bomb shelters' and sells them for an average price of $75,000


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The 50ft long survival shelter is put in place before earth is piled on top to cover it in Montebello, California

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A view of the luxurious living area complete with leather sofa, plasma TV and wood flooring in Montebello, California


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A view of the beds in the survival shelter in Montebello, California

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A view of the luxurious dining area inside the survival shelter in Montebello, California

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Rising S constructed an $8 million shelter in Colorado that measured 15,000 square feet with camouflaged elevators and ramps for the disabled owner.
Above ground a log cabin is built on top of the shelter so that no one is any wise about what exists below ground.
'Everything above ground is camouflaged by an old barn or water silo that sits above it,' said Roberson to ABC News.
'He's got a basketball court, and airplane hangar large enough to park 2 Cessna planes that will open up to face a hill or mountain.
'He's got a large gym, 22 rooms, he has a large family.'

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One of the bedrooms with double bed inside the survival shelter in Montebello, California

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A child powers the water pump in a survival shelter in Montebello, California

The majority of the boom in shelters is concentrated around the South and West of the nation.
'I think probably around the year 2000 we started seeing quite an increase in sales,' said Sharon Packer, co-owner of Utah Shelter Systems in Draper, Utah.  
'People were concerned about the very real issue of possible effects on our computers.
'Y2K' started the upsurge, and for 13 years it's been a good steady business,' Packer said.
'After 9/11 we had a big surge in the East, in New York.'
Indeed, the recent nuclear posturing by Iran and North Korea has ramped up dears and business.
'It's sad to say, the worse the state of affairs get, our government gets, the closer we see these policies the government is forcing down our throats, and foreign threats as well. It inflames peoples' desire to give themselves a retreat,' said Roberson to ABC News.

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Children test out the bunk beds in the survival shelter in Montebello, California

'People are awakening to the threat,' Packer said. 'A lot of it is the terrorist attacks, a lot of it is the economy. People are concerned about having a government failure. Some of it is Earth changes.'
The owner of American Safe Homes, Brian Duvaul says that during the last quarter of 2012 he witnessed a 25 percent increase in business, which he attributed to the Mayan calendar which purported to herald the end of the world.
He also said he had previously seen jumps in sales during the anthrax scares of 2002 and 2003, and after the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown in Japan in 2011.
'People don't always come out and tell us why they're doing what they're doing. We had one guy tell us he had to get a blast door for his wife's birthday, which happened to be one day before the Mayan calendar ended,' said Duvaul to ABC News.
'I didn't believe him, but we got him the door.'

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One thing popped out to me about the way the resident talked about the construction process. Notice that he talks about how they had to 'speak' to certain materials and that the material would 'give feedback' when it breaks, etc. At first it sounded like someone from America who talks about spiritual garbage - but perhaps (and I don't know this, I'm open to correction) in Europe, this is how a regular artist talks about their work because it makes it easier for the non-artist to understand when there's personification. This would be an easy example of how Paganism could come about, if the behavior is built into European artists for them to express themselves constantly in that way. The power of the artist, of course, is not in 'creating' something new, but discovering what's present and then manipulating it into a direction they prefer. The same thing takes place in philosophy with language.

He lives there since three years and yet also 20 different artists lived there already for some time.
I wonder where he actually lives when it's not for taking some pictures.

These modern living ideas remind me of drone pods.
Where do these people actually cook? Where do they prepare their food, you need space, a lot of space to properly cook and do the dishes if there is more in your inventory than one skillet, one plate and one set of cutlery.
Where do they store their clothes, their shoes (winter, summer, work clothes, fancy clothes,...)
Where is the vacuum cleaner, the window cleaning utilities.
This is like a tree house where you go to your actual house next to it whenever you need something beyond what you'd have on you for a one night stay in a tent.

Minimalism to the extreme. I, prefer small homes, myself, but not that small.
Over time with overpopulation and crowding most people will be living in such homes.
Gives new meaning to the concept of the living-dead, because that's like a coffin for the living.

I like watching shows on strange homes, and extraordinary houses.

It's gonna be like Star Trek. People will wear the same pyjama overall all day every day, additionally they will have a set of underwear, a set of boots and one spare set. They will live indoors most of the time anyway so there's no need for special outdoor pyjamas, at least not for most of them.

They will slide into a sleeping pod like in one of those pod hotels in Japan where they wear a virtual reality headset, no better, this recreation program will be induced like a dream.
They won't be cooking themselves or mend anything themselves it will all be given to them on a credit basis on demand.


I like interior architecture as well, or architecture in general. To try and harmonise functionality with aesthetics.

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Where do these people actually cook? Where do they prepare their food, you need space, a lot of space to properly cook and do the dishes if there is more in your inventory than one skillet, one plate and one set of cutlery.
Where do they store their clothes, their shoes (winter, summer, work clothes, fancy clothes,...)
Where is the vacuum cleaner, the window cleaning utilities.
This is like a tree house where you go to your actual house next to it whenever you need something beyond what you'd have on you for a one night stay in a tent.

When I studied architecture, some of the older teachers mentioned this. "Living small" does not save space from a city planning viewpoint, since it only rearranges the spaces needed for various functions. A more alarming trend is that without big private spaces, there is no place for groups of people to meet and organize civil disobedience.

...or have a family.
What does save space, resources, bureaucracy,... is having larger families/extended families and not having them spread all over the place long distances apart from each other.

You gotta love all that glass.
Think of the comforting room acoustics in this concrete/glass palace.
You can become self-employed, literally, and your new full-time job is cleaning all that glass all week long.

Don't worry about your privacy, especially at night. No worries, I'm sure it comes with installed curtains for all the glass walls, which brings me to your second self-employed job you can pick up, which is washing all those curtains at least once a year, better twice.

It's in Canada so you will need massive air-cooling in the summer and heating during the winter with all that glass facade, luckily you are probably making big money with those two self-employed jobs.

It's also totally not for a single douche-bag but for families. I wonder why they are still not including the toilets into this one big open space concept. Be bold, be modern I say, go full modern.

In earlier times, it was a luxury to have many rooms for different purposes. Like a kitchen separated from the sleeping quarters, or a separate living room. At the start everything was one big room, well except the shitting part, that was usually done outside even back then.
We are heading back to those days, ah what am I saying, we are transcending those early days, now with see-through walls. One room? No room is the future.

The 'sheer' face, as pointed out by someone other than myself, of buildings like glass (coming from sand) and sheer skyscrapers, are a 'cleansing' of natural order or influence - effeminate influence; a hypermasculine erasure if it is nihilistic originated. Appropriately, and not coincidentally, glass comes from sand, sand from the desert, and other things came from the desert memetically.