New box - or self build?

Good morning. The sky has turned back to grey again.

This picture of a new build housing estate popped up on my screen. Is it AI? I don't know but I suspect it is real. The story is about how our hedgehog numbers are in decline. They can no longer move about freely between gardens. Apparently they make the concrete boards at the bottom with holes in, so they can incorporate Hedgehog Highways in their layout. So that helps I suppose. 

But my first impression of this picture is, what kind of a hell hole is this for humans to live in. I can't imagine living in a box like this. I bet the walls are paper thin as well, just like the fencing around the miniscule patches of grass masquerading as a garden. There will be many more of these boxes in the planning pipeline, and some people will be glad of a place like this to live in. If that's what they want so be it. 

I watched this video last night. A woman who has self built her cob house on a patch of land she bought in Portugal. Now that would be my kind of project, if I was several decades younger. She has the tenacity and gumption to do her own thing. I admire that. 

My building skills are minimal, but at least this is still standing. Solid as a rock and dry inside, after 11 years. 

Which is it for you? A tiny box crammed in a small plot, or lots of free space to roam?

Thanks for popping in. Toodle pip.   ilona