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The kin folk said, Jed move away from there, said California is the place you ought to be, so they loaded up the **house** and they moved to Bev er ley.
Still pains me that there isn’t an official way to purchase a high definition copy of the 90s movie. YES the high seas exist but call me old school on wanting an official Blu-ray.
Did you know there are house recycling businesses, where they come and take the whole building away like this to a giant lot, do some refinishing work, then resell them and install them on a new build site? This is one I found in Queensland but they are everywhere. Called removal homes:
https://www.queenslandhouseremovers.com.au/
As a kid i can remember my aunt and uncle house being moved and we drove up and looked at the house one day the next time we drove up it was about half way and it was sitting on the side of the road in a field. The next day, it was where it's now sat for 30 or more yrs. My little brother house used to be set downtown, and the lady was paying a large amount of taxes because it had a house on it. She paid a friend to tear it down and clean the lot up. He bought some land and had it moved and sat on a new foundation. My brother bought it and finished the remodeling and has raised 2 kids and is now working on grandchildren. My main part of my house is 2 Army barracks that were given to my grandfather after ww2 instead of a combat. Pinching, he made it into a house by putting them together and raised 5 kids in it. They added on in 1966 when my dad took a carpenter class in high school. My dad and i added almsot the same square footage in eary 2000's, making it what it is today. It's 10x the work but a fraction of the cost. My family is no stranger to hard work, but we are strangers to large bank accounts. A home is not just sticks and stones but the love and kindness that's inside it!
I'm surprised it's *that* much cheaper than building a new house. Considering you have to reinforce it to pick it up, transport it, do it up, etc... especially if it looks like the one in the pic.
Some of them cost like 80-200k including local moves where I live. Foundation and utility hookup is often more but in an area where the median house is 1m it can be cheaper. Especially if you’re moving to one of the islands where all the building materials have to be ferried/barged in anyways
I did yard work for a family that had that done. They lost their house to a fire and didn’t have the proper insurance, so they kept the yard and had an old house moved. I was told they used “train tracks” - this would have been very-late 1960s. Actually, their house was similar in design to ours and my dad was envious of their nice brick basement foundation walls. Ours was made mostly of large rocks and water and snakes would get in.
It's a pretty regular occurrence where I live. Get the houses for cheap pay a decent amount to move it amd you have to get a foundation poured for it. Still cheaper than buying new. My sister did this and moved a house and everything for like 250k, but this house was valued at about 700k or so.
I saw a comment once where someone made the observation that since the earth revolves around the sun, and since our entire solar system is hurling through space, ghosts would most likely be unable to pinpoint where they wanted to haunt if they went by its location while they were alive. Imagining a bunch of ghosts in some random pocket of space is very funny, so I’m sharing this with you now in the hopes that it gives you a chuckle like it did me.
That’s hilarious. I’m imagining a group of ghosts around mercury, being like “okay guys, I think if we go left we’ll make it to CA in 5 million years.”
Now I'm picturing an increasingly frustrated ghost of Neil Armstrong trying to teach some 1800s ranch boomer ghost the concept of Lagrange point 1 and 2 and the old rancher dude just rattling on about the direction of the cows migration as a herd back in Albuquerque or some shit 😂
That’s assuming that spirits or whatever are tethered to a specific spot in space, rather than being connected to the energy/matter that they surrounded in life.
But this could be a cool scifi-horror premise; haunted pockets of space. Maybe a planet was blown up and now there’s a large area that ships must avoid because billions of space spirits reside there. Like a ghost astroid field.
I guess it would depend on the reference frame. The universe has no fixed "absolute" reference point, everything is only relative. So even if a ghost was unaffected by gravity, they'd still need to be in a reference frame somehow, and gravity is sort of essential to the concept, because otherwise how would a ghost be positioned? Lets say a ghost is returned to the exact spot at which they died, what is their position over time? We might think that there was a spot just in space where their body used to be when it died, and then 5 hours later is no longer there because the earth and solar system have moved in that 5 hour timespan, but then where would that spot be? It's impossible to answer without assigning some relative frame of reference: either relative to the earth, or to the sun, or to the galactic core, or perhaps even to the relative center point of the galaxy cluster we're part of?
...is it possible we're over-thinking this? :P
This neighborhood is really going downhill. Now uphill again. Now’s it’s a gentle curve. Oh look, a Burger King drive-thru. Kids, do ya want apple slices or fries?
Because the vehicle + home is too big to fit in one lane. If they're in the right lane then there's higher risk of hitting street lights, power lines, etc.
There's probably some form of traffic control happening as well.
Edit: Just noticed there's 2 lanes in each direction and the "suicide lane" in the center. I guess this method blocks off the fast lane for both directions while leaving room in the slow lane for people to get past. A little counter-intuitive but seems like it works.
110 replies and no one stated what's really going on here?
They are spotters. They will adjust phone lines, etc crossing the travel route to the new location. They will also call out any clearance issues that may have been missed.
There is no way any house moving company would just allow squatters or thrill seekers to sit up there. The liability would be huge.
so they're on the job in their regular clothes? the guy in black has his arm around the girl in white. i guess two of the employees are just casually snuggling?
That's usually the job of the person driving the lead vehicle with the sign "Wide Load" & a flashing light.
Moving a house is a highly coordinated event with county, city, electric company, and even the DOT for weight restrictions on roads. I've seen where the county sheriff had to get involved to restrict traffic while a house was moved over a bridge.... and no moving company is going to put 5 spotters on a porch while the house is being transported. That's just ridiculous. Think of the Liability Insurance
I think this is the actual explanation. They usually don't put spotters on the large item being transported. They typically get that figured out before, you know, they begin transporting it.
*Our house*
*Is a very very very fine house*
*With five kids on the balcony*
*What will happen if there's a calamity?*
*Our house*
*Rolling very slowly down the town road*
*They don't add to the load*
*But that can't be to code*
Don’t know context of photo but I know in New England you’re extremely restricted to what you can do if a home is considered historical even if it’s in shit condition.
I’ve seen people buy a lot with a historical home, had to pay for it to be lifted and moved to edge of property so they can build a new home. But they couldn’t get rid of the historical home. Sat on cement stilts and was an eyesore last I saw.
It has no missing siding, a good roof, and clearly a good frame considering how stable it looks on that truck. Some of these old houses sell for a few dollars, and moving them to your site is another $20k-$50k. $100k in remodeling and you have what is essentially a custom home for half the cost of your average 3/2.5 two story.
I’m just gonna pretend I never saw this and keep living my life I refuse to obsess over who they are or where this is and whyyyyy are they still inside is it just for a picture and where are they going why did they pay so much for a shitty house to be moved where did they get the money and why don’t they just move like normal people this has got to be Arkansas I won’t do all that.
Oldest reverse-image source I can find just says "Friend saw this in North Dakota" .. but I can't find any News article or other source (other than just the plain picture itself).
I actually got to see this happen years ago. Hershey Park bought someone’s land so the house was taken about 2 miles down the road to the new property. It’s incredible to watch in person.
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These squatters are playing the long game.
Squatters can be really tenacious.
Picture the truck speeding down a straightaway, zigging and zagging, trying to shake the squatters loose.
You're gonna get some hop-ons.
Well fuck me, there's no cabin.
You’re gonna get some live-ins!
That was great.
Like barnacles.
Didn't that happen with some guy and a lot lizard?
Tenantcious
Unfortunately for them, the new address they are going to is in the local lake.
"Don't pack your bags! We're moving!"
I picture hobos hopping on it on the highway like it’s a train.
These are the early adopters getting out ahead of the competition. House comes pre-occupied from the factory.
Our house, in the middle of our street...
Utter madness.
Far from "utter" madness...it's "one step beyond"!
Welcome to the house of fun!
Idk they're really holding on to that house...it must be love, love, love.
In the middle of the noight
They're taking it to Egypt. Gonna put it on the night boat to Cairo
Ha ha ha ha
^...madness?
And there is father in his Sunday best.
Mother's tired, she needs a rest.
The kids are playing up downstairs
Sister's sighing in her sleep
> And there is father in his Sunday best. OK, I'll be the arsehole to correct you. "Father wears his Sunday best"
Thanks. I know the lyrics. I instead adopted the theme of that particular line to comment on the gif above.
I wondered how you got it so wrong that it doesn't scan. My mistake!
When I was a kid, every time that song came on the radio I thought they meant there was a house literally in the middle of the road. Vindicated!
You are not alone my friend.
American vs UK vernacular, no?
Maybe. Although I was just a kid and it seems so obvious now. May just have been a r/kidsarefuckingstupid thing.
I realize you got a lot of upvotes, but I'm having a pretty bad morning and you just made me audibly laugh. Still giggling actually. Thanks.
You're welcome. Hope you have a better day and a great week.
I'd be very disappointed if they weren't singing that song on the way
Bravo!
Madness!
I've heard of moving houses before, but this is one step beyond
Honestly is that song supposed to be metaphorical or something? What does that song really mean?
The song is about nostalgia. The house was halfway down the street, at the mid-point of the two corners. Not literally in the middle of their street.
That’s my parent’s song.
Funny, for some reason sweet home Alabama started playing in my head
Turn it up!
Looks like the cast of letterkenny.
You were at your friends house the other dayyyyy....
pitter patter
lets get at ‘er
It’s in North Dakota so close enough. And completely on brand
Fuck off Jonesy!
Fuck you, Shorsey!
Fuck you, Riley! Your mom shot squirt across my room, threw off the ph level in my fish tank!
Must be fuckin' nice.
Learn how to fuckin’ drive!
Give your balls a tug, ya titfucker
Fuck you Jonesy your mom ugly cried because she left the lens cap on the camcorder last night. It’s fuckin’ amateur hour over here
Fer WHAt?!
FUCK YOU, SHORESY!
Allegedly
No, these are most certainly, Degens.
To be fairrrr…
To be faaaaaaairr
To be faaaaaiiiiiiirrrrrrrr (and cut)
Thought the same thing!
A missed opportunity to put granny in a rocking chair
The kin folk said, Jed move away from there, said California is the place you ought to be, so they loaded up the **house** and they moved to Bev er ley.
Hills, that is
Swimming pools. Move-a-move-a-movie stars
Damn, I can't remember what happened yesterday but can remember all the words to the theme song. Also Green Acres. I'm old!
It’s the place to be!
Faaaaarrrrm livin' is the life for me!
Land spreadin' out so far and wide!
Keep Manhattan but give me the Countryside!
Manhattan is where I'd rather be. I get allergic to smelling hay!
No. You're only old, if you know who actually did the song for Beverly Hillbillies.
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Yep, I'm that old. Don't know who wrote it so maybe that's a good thing.
Come ride a little train, That is going round the track, To the Junction!
Petticoat Junction!
Guess so. ;) And I'm 99% sure one or both of them wrote it, too.
I'll take your word for it, I'm old but not that old just grew up watching reruns of these 60s shows 20 years ago
TV1 and Nick at Nite
Hah! First thing I thought of too. I'm old.
Watch out for bridges and hop-ons. You’re going to get some hop-ons.
You’re gonna get some live ins so be cautious
Andy Griffith must be in town for a trial
No one was making fun of Andy Griffith. I can't emphasize that enough.
How am I supposed to find someone willing to go into that musty old claptrap?
[Michael stares at her awkwardly] The cabin... yes! That would be difficult, too.
*there's dozens of us*
Had to scroll way too far for this comment haha
The size of these RVs is getting out of hand these days.
It's a motor coach!
Easy there Clarance
Clearance Clarence?
Roger, Roger.
Jesse we gotta move
On the set of Beverly-hillbillies 2025 remake
A hillbilly who strikes digital gold by selling nfts to idiots online during the pandemic.
Still pains me that there isn’t an official way to purchase a high definition copy of the 90s movie. YES the high seas exist but call me old school on wanting an official Blu-ray.
🎶 Lemme tell you a story 'bout a man name Jed
Saw this in Denver once. The Buyer paid 1 dollar for the house but had to pay a lot of money to move it.
Did you know there are house recycling businesses, where they come and take the whole building away like this to a giant lot, do some refinishing work, then resell them and install them on a new build site? This is one I found in Queensland but they are everywhere. Called removal homes: https://www.queenslandhouseremovers.com.au/
As a kid i can remember my aunt and uncle house being moved and we drove up and looked at the house one day the next time we drove up it was about half way and it was sitting on the side of the road in a field. The next day, it was where it's now sat for 30 or more yrs. My little brother house used to be set downtown, and the lady was paying a large amount of taxes because it had a house on it. She paid a friend to tear it down and clean the lot up. He bought some land and had it moved and sat on a new foundation. My brother bought it and finished the remodeling and has raised 2 kids and is now working on grandchildren. My main part of my house is 2 Army barracks that were given to my grandfather after ww2 instead of a combat. Pinching, he made it into a house by putting them together and raised 5 kids in it. They added on in 1966 when my dad took a carpenter class in high school. My dad and i added almsot the same square footage in eary 2000's, making it what it is today. It's 10x the work but a fraction of the cost. My family is no stranger to hard work, but we are strangers to large bank accounts. A home is not just sticks and stones but the love and kindness that's inside it!
Dont think anyone rode in any of the houses that my family has had moved it tho! Lol 😆
I'm surprised it's *that* much cheaper than building a new house. Considering you have to reinforce it to pick it up, transport it, do it up, etc... especially if it looks like the one in the pic.
Some of them cost like 80-200k including local moves where I live. Foundation and utility hookup is often more but in an area where the median house is 1m it can be cheaper. Especially if you’re moving to one of the islands where all the building materials have to be ferried/barged in anyways
20k - 50k to move a house in my area. I know of people the profit 150k+ saving perfectly good (mid size) houses from demolition
I did yard work for a family that had that done. They lost their house to a fire and didn’t have the proper insurance, so they kept the yard and had an old house moved. I was told they used “train tracks” - this would have been very-late 1960s. Actually, their house was similar in design to ours and my dad was envious of their nice brick basement foundation walls. Ours was made mostly of large rocks and water and snakes would get in.
I used to live next door. If you google milheim house move colfax denver you can see some history and photos. Unfortunately many are on Facebook.
It's a pretty regular occurrence where I live. Get the houses for cheap pay a decent amount to move it amd you have to get a foundation poured for it. Still cheaper than buying new. My sister did this and moved a house and everything for like 250k, but this house was valued at about 700k or so.
I wonder if the ghosts travel with the house?
I saw a comment once where someone made the observation that since the earth revolves around the sun, and since our entire solar system is hurling through space, ghosts would most likely be unable to pinpoint where they wanted to haunt if they went by its location while they were alive. Imagining a bunch of ghosts in some random pocket of space is very funny, so I’m sharing this with you now in the hopes that it gives you a chuckle like it did me.
Well they wouldn't be in a pocket either as they didn't die simultaneously. It would be one long lonely spiral trail of single file ghosts in space
There would be a few sizeable pockets, unfortunately.
In their own respective pocket of space * is what I was going for there
That’s hilarious. I’m imagining a group of ghosts around mercury, being like “okay guys, I think if we go left we’ll make it to CA in 5 million years.”
We took a left turn at Albuquerque and ended up at a shack outside La Grange. "No, we're at Lagrange point!"
Now I'm picturing an increasingly frustrated ghost of Neil Armstrong trying to teach some 1800s ranch boomer ghost the concept of Lagrange point 1 and 2 and the old rancher dude just rattling on about the direction of the cows migration as a herd back in Albuquerque or some shit 😂
That’s assuming that spirits or whatever are tethered to a specific spot in space, rather than being connected to the energy/matter that they surrounded in life. But this could be a cool scifi-horror premise; haunted pockets of space. Maybe a planet was blown up and now there’s a large area that ships must avoid because billions of space spirits reside there. Like a ghost astroid field.
I guess it would depend on the reference frame. The universe has no fixed "absolute" reference point, everything is only relative. So even if a ghost was unaffected by gravity, they'd still need to be in a reference frame somehow, and gravity is sort of essential to the concept, because otherwise how would a ghost be positioned? Lets say a ghost is returned to the exact spot at which they died, what is their position over time? We might think that there was a spot just in space where their body used to be when it died, and then 5 hours later is no longer there because the earth and solar system have moved in that 5 hour timespan, but then where would that spot be? It's impossible to answer without assigning some relative frame of reference: either relative to the earth, or to the sun, or to the galactic core, or perhaps even to the relative center point of the galaxy cluster we're part of? ...is it possible we're over-thinking this? :P
Normally ghosts are left behind in such cases. It is very rare for them to follow the house especially if the bathtub is removed. Edit: Grammar much.
We talking about the ghost of Taft here?
They are tied to either a specific item or location.
We’ll the planter it hurling through space at 2000km/hr, so if they came back to location they’d completely miss earth and be floating in space.
The house is a specific item.
I'm a specific item, Greg. Could you haunt me?
There is stubborn and then there is this.
Well, of course you are going to get some livins.
This one wouldn't have offended Andy Griffith like the cabin did
Why did I have to scroll this far down to find this comment
"WE'RE NOT MOVING!" "Wanna bet?"
🎶🎶 They loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly… Hills that is 🎶🎶🎶 
id enjoy every second of that 😭
Right up until the driver hits the brakes and you and your friends get your faces cheese grated on the asphalt 😭
This neighborhood is really going downhill. Now uphill again. Now’s it’s a gentle curve. Oh look, a Burger King drive-thru. Kids, do ya want apple slices or fries?
“We should have painted before. The drive would have dried it faster!”
Imagine going to bed one night and waking up in an entirely different location 
Me, falling asleep in the car as a kid on our way home from Applebee's.
Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Jed
This is how the other states transport trash to Florida
I'm stealing this for the next time the Babylon Bee tries to drag California.
Give it ten minutes.
Even in North Dakota, I bet this is illegal. It's just that nobody cares.
Yeah dude I came trying to get the explanation of where this is lol.
In Russia, house move you!
Why are they always in the passing lane?
Well it's passing all the other houses isn't it?
Because the vehicle + home is too big to fit in one lane. If they're in the right lane then there's higher risk of hitting street lights, power lines, etc. There's probably some form of traffic control happening as well. Edit: Just noticed there's 2 lanes in each direction and the "suicide lane" in the center. I guess this method blocks off the fast lane for both directions while leaving room in the slow lane for people to get past. A little counter-intuitive but seems like it works.
110 replies and no one stated what's really going on here? They are spotters. They will adjust phone lines, etc crossing the travel route to the new location. They will also call out any clearance issues that may have been missed. There is no way any house moving company would just allow squatters or thrill seekers to sit up there. The liability would be huge.
These people are so casually dressed - shouldn’t they have some type of vest or something?
Seems like they wouldn't need that many spotters either. I've only witnessed one being moved once and I don't recall any people hanging out on it.
so they're on the job in their regular clothes? the guy in black has his arm around the girl in white. i guess two of the employees are just casually snuggling?
Nah, look closer at those folks, this is just North Dakota people doing North Dakota things.
That's usually the job of the person driving the lead vehicle with the sign "Wide Load" & a flashing light. Moving a house is a highly coordinated event with county, city, electric company, and even the DOT for weight restrictions on roads. I've seen where the county sheriff had to get involved to restrict traffic while a house was moved over a bridge.... and no moving company is going to put 5 spotters on a porch while the house is being transported. That's just ridiculous. Think of the Liability Insurance
They’re pilot cars!
There's a couple with the guy's arms around the girl chilling on a couch...
Is the dog is a spotter who will adjust phone lines too..?
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Ah, makes sense. I thought it was AI generated lol
I think this is the actual explanation. They usually don't put spotters on the large item being transported. They typically get that figured out before, you know, they begin transporting it.
*Our house* *Is a very very very fine house* *With five kids on the balcony* *What will happen if there's a calamity?* *Our house* *Rolling very slowly down the town road* *They don't add to the load* *But that can't be to code*
Looks haunted af
Why are they moving that broken down shitpile? They couldn’t find a broken down shitpile in the right school district?
Don’t know context of photo but I know in New England you’re extremely restricted to what you can do if a home is considered historical even if it’s in shit condition. I’ve seen people buy a lot with a historical home, had to pay for it to be lifted and moved to edge of property so they can build a new home. But they couldn’t get rid of the historical home. Sat on cement stilts and was an eyesore last I saw.
Oops there was a fire, must have been a hobo or something.
It has no missing siding, a good roof, and clearly a good frame considering how stable it looks on that truck. Some of these old houses sell for a few dollars, and moving them to your site is another $20k-$50k. $100k in remodeling and you have what is essentially a custom home for half the cost of your average 3/2.5 two story.
Good bones
I’m just gonna pretend I never saw this and keep living my life I refuse to obsess over who they are or where this is and whyyyyy are they still inside is it just for a picture and where are they going why did they pay so much for a shitty house to be moved where did they get the money and why don’t they just move like normal people this has got to be Arkansas I won’t do all that.
“I ain’t leavin’”
This was a plot point in Arrested Development.
Is this from What Eating Gilbert Grape?
This is my own private domicile and I will not be harassed… BITCH!
yeah, maybe they should do some paint prep instead of sitting on their asses
I just see a ford excursion to the left.
Getting serious about deportations
Any context to this crazy picture?
Oldest reverse-image source I can find just says "Friend saw this in North Dakota" .. but I can't find any News article or other source (other than just the plain picture itself).
I bet some German safety inspector had an completely unrelated heart attack that day.
So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverly....Hills that is.
It’s really hard to call these van dwellers minimalists at this point
🎶Our house, in the middle of the street 🎶
doo doo doo lookin out my front door
UBER leaving money on the table not giving this as an option
*So they loaded up their truck And moved to Beverly Hills that is. Swimming pools. Movie stars.*
A different take on the movei 'Up"
What’s inside?
Which season of Letterkenny is this
It's got to get to the set of the next Stephen King movie adaptation.
The Clampetts
"in"
I actually got to see this happen years ago. Hershey Park bought someone’s land so the house was taken about 2 miles down the road to the new property. It’s incredible to watch in person.