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I can't speak for anyone else, but my own interest in shipping container houses is that you can literally ship your own house somewhere else for a reasonable sum. Then you have it trucked to a remote location somewhere with a bunch of supplies and you're good to live there for a while.

If you're just using it as a prebuilt structure for a permanent dwelling then prefab would make much more sense.

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From what in understand, you actually can't. As soon as you modify that shipping container, nobody is stacking it on a ship anymore.

An RV, however, can absolutely fulfill that requirement.

Well that's why you don't cut windows in it or anything. You keep the container's integrity and just build a home inside it, making sure to keep everything "ship-shape".

I'm not sure how you'd transport an RV to a different continent but I bet it wouldn't be as cheap as shipping a container. Also, to use it you'd have to get it road registered in every country you passed through, which would be an expensive pain.

Could you not put the RV in a shipping container, though?

How often do you plan to move across continents? And why couldn't you just use the homes already built there?

Generally how you ship vehicles to other continents (e.g. an RV) would be to put it in a shipping container :)

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