Dai Haifei, 24, from China's Hunan province, looks out from his egg-shaped mobile house where he has been living for the last two months, located near his office in Beijing on December 1, 2010. The house cost about 1,000 USD to build, and is made of bamboo strips and mattress, covered by a layer of heat preservation and water-proof material, with patches of bags stuffed with processed wood peels and grass seeds that could grow grass when spring comes, covering the house like a quilt. Getty Images
Unusual homes - This egg shaped tiny ultra compact mobile home is build by a Chinese office worker for low cost living.
Dai, who is one of the millions of migrants who moved to the capital from other parts of China seeking a better life and better job, said he built it because he found that the financial burden too pay heavy rent in the city unaffordable.
“I rented a home at the very beginning - a small room in an apartment that cost me about 900 yuan ($135) a month, My parents work hard trying to save money for me to get married but they don’t know they have to toil for up to 300 years to get enough to buy an apartment in Beijing,” Dai told state-run China Daily.
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