Those metal sided buildings aren’t super uncommon around here, so it really didn’t occur to me other people would find it particularly weird.
But then apparently well water and septic is also weird to some people, and that’s basically every country property here :p
Sort of. The building was built as a dual-purpose building to save on the cost to build. Those big metal buildings are cheap to put up and a lot of people build into them over time (live in it as you build up around you is the normal strategy, either with an RV or by starting with a room and bathroom).
Those big metal buildings also sometimes manage to fly under the radar for developing land without permitting, since you can put one up on your own land for storage.