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    Is Bigger Better? A Couple Breaks From Convention In a Tiny House

    by Cera Bollo Sep 07, 2019 4 minutes
    Is Bigger Better? A Couple Breaks From Convention In a Tiny House, by Cera Bollo. Photograph of a tiny house by Cera Bollo
    A tiny house built by the author and her husband. All photographs courtesy of Cera Bollo.

    Breaking from the rat race of a materialistic society, one young
    couple explores doing life differently in the tiny house they built (and now
    build for others)

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    Our story is quite simple and is all too familiar for some. We started out just like most newly married couples, racing to get ahead and begin our life together. We found ourselves slowly becoming caught in the ‘rat race’ of society.

    The concept of owning things, slowly turned into things owning us and it became all too real — we needed a release.

    We found ourselves working too many hours and losing touch with the things that brought us together in the first place. Our adventure slowly turned into a passion for money. Our weekends went from climbing and mountain biking, to over-exhaustion and lack of sleep.

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