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I worked on a farm one summer as a kid and lived in an old log cabin. The wind sometime blew through and the facilities was an out house down a path. I survived but would not want to do it again.
No not the same. Log cabins are horrible for drafts. I love the look but would never live in a real log cabin. A shed has solid walls which equals less drafts than a log cabin.
I wonder how far you can go before the township inspector pays you a visit.
Depends on the township and your neighbors.
IME, the inspectors don't wander around looking for suspicious buildings - they respond to neighbor complaints. But I'm sure that my experience is not universal!
In a lot of rural areas in the PNW (and maybe in other areas), a building permit is not required for agricultural buildings under a certain amount of square feet and as long as it is not "residential". And residential apparently means that a building has cooking facilities, sleeping space, and a bathroom. I knew several people who bought ag/forestry land and built more than one small building to live in. One building would have the cooking facilities and bathroom, the other the sleeping area. Neighbors didn't complain so the inspector didn't worry about it either. However, this is really pushing the envelope, and I would not recommend that anyone try it without thorough research. It isn't just the law you need to consider - it's the views of the neighbors and the "personality" of the jurisdiction.
If you're seriously interested in this, there are websites oriented toward preppers and homesteaders that have reasonably up-to-date info about which jurisdictions in the US are more lenient in this regard.
My childhood home had a generous size tool shed that had lights and electrical outlets. Add some insulation and plumbing and it could have been livable.
That guy is ridiculous, no running water and not bathroom.
No one is making you live the way he does.
Nevertheless, most human beings who have ever lived on the earth - maybe including most who are alive right this minute - live(d) without running water in their homes, let alone a bathroom. Nothing ridiculous about it.
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and they are way overpriced
