Couple has been living under a rock, literally

yahoo ^ | 12/20/13 | Rusty Weston

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[Yahoo Homes editor's pick, 2013: Every December, we look back at our most popular stories of the year. We've had some terrific ones recently, like the amazing artist who hand-carves soaring, swirling caves where none existed before; and the architect who, hit by foreclosure, built a tiny house for $11,000; and the architect who put the world's "biggest public toilet" in a glass cube in the middle of a clearing. But our most popular story of the year was this one, published way back on Jan. 24, 2013.]

For many people, the idea of living under a rock might seem like the punchline of a joke. But for one Mexican couple, a hut wedged below a 130-foot boulder in Coahuila, Mexico, has been home for the past 30 years.

A reporter recently visited the couple, Benito Hernandez and Santa Martha de la Cruz Villarreal, in their primitive desert home 50 miles south of Texas. Hernandez is a farmer who plants and collects the Candelilla plant used in making Candelilla wax.

He first saw this boulder 55 years ago, when he was 8, and decided to make it a home one day. Twenty years later he was able to secure rights to the land.

"I started coming here when I was 8 years old to visit the Candelilla (harvesting) fields, and I liked it here. I liked it and then I continued visiting every three to four months. I wasn't married and I didn't have a family yet, but I liked it and I had to keep coming to put my foot in (on the property) because lands here are won through claiming them," Hernandez told Reuters.

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The Hauer Rock House [Moab, Utah] is built into the red rocks and filled with features that come straight out of an old Western movie. It is located near Fisher Towers and the Colorado River off scenic Highway 128. This 3 bedroom 3 bath home is an architectural wonder that was featured on the cover of Architectural Digest.

Pictures at link. . .

http://moabhorses.com/lodging/rock-house/

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They aren’t homeless, but in the U.S. they wouldn’t be able to get an occupancy permit.

Here’s a rhetorical question:

How many people in the U.S. are homeless due to the restrictions of zoning laws and building and occupancy permits.

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I did see that afterwards when I was looking around for more news on this, very cleaver guy!

It seems it would have be a end of the world storm to destroy his place!:)