Do you live in your car, or may maybe a van?

I don't own a car

It’s a psyop to normalize poor living conditions - to delay and misdirect a violent reaction to austerity

I live in a taxi.

Momma was born in a trunk.

I wish I did.

It sounds like hell to me too. Same thing with narrowboats. Having to deal with getting a shower, going to the toilet, the lack of heating/air conditioning, finding a place you can park without people moving you on.

Oh, and the lack of an address, internet, limited storage, limited cooking facilities. I could go on.

Yes, in a van down by the river.

You should just do a general thread about homelessness.

We’re seeing more of it here in Tampa, Walmart parking lot and another lot near a church.

I would think the worst time would be a multiple day downpour and hearing the rain slam on the roof of your car all day long, and not being able to dry yourself completely.

And oh, the body smell after awhile, especially if you can’t smell it yourself.

Longtime admirer of vintage campers here, and also some B-Class (van) rv’s. I have watched videos of camper restorations and refittings, yet in the past five years it seems less about adventure and more about a new underclass of displaced nomads.

I still admire the idea and some technical things about RV camping, but the reality of it sounds stressful and dangerous. And the hygiene of living in a compact poorly ventilated space. I still watch a video series produced by a fellow called Foresty Forest, but stopped watching a second one I discovered on a thread here, Nomadic Introvert.

Like poor people? No! But hubby and I are thinking of buying a leisure travel van. He's paranoid about bedbugs and hotel germs and I like the looks of it: again, not to LIVE in. Just to live it up on trips.

I’m in weho. These parasites are parked on so many streets. It’s creepy. They cover the windows and there are fucking cameras all over them. It’s creepy and this shouldn’t be allowed. At the LEAST, it monopolizes parking spaces that are needed by people who pay rent to live here. Their lack of toilet is disgusting. They are parasites.

A lot of them live in their cars with dogs too!

R12 Starting at $191,570 USD. Sure isn't for poor people!

R13 But, they are very poor, really struggling humans.

r12 Hubby and I? Why do you fools insist on talking like stupid breeders?

"Hubby" is as dreadful as "veggies".

No.

I could be house poor easily and happily enough if need be. But a house or an apartment is not a car, nor a fucking RV or camper.

If I had a car, I'd live in it. If I had a meal, I'd eat it. If you had a dick, I'd suck it, in your car, for a meal.

[quote]But a house or an apartment is not a car

But a chair is still a chair, even when there's no one sitting there.

R18 Hubby and Veggie are bad, but Fur Baby is even worse.

[quote] [R12] Starting at $191,570 USD. Sure isn't for poor people!

R12 and hubby are wealthy DLers!

Well, I guess THAT explains the abysmal subscription rate.

I live on the subway

Foresty Forest knows what he is doing and has a good van and his companion dog. Is he antisocial? He doesn't seem miserable, he seems set, for the moment.

It's a very vicarious lifestyle.

I've seen a youtube short of a couple that literally live in the back of their 15 year old subaru outback.

R26, vicarious for the viewers?

I think there was a big uptick in 2020 of young influencers living out of converted cars/SUVS and posting glossily edited videos of their adventures.

At least the folks in an RV have somewhere to run in case of a bathroom emergency. No thanks.

Even people with RVs with a toilet don’t like taking a dump in the toilet.

No, I live in a 5000 square foot single family detached house on 1.5 acres.

R32, speaks volumes that you felt compelled to include “detached” in your brag.

In a van, down by the river.

If someone resides in their vehicle, because e.g. they lack some sort of actual address, I think it's alright as long as they park it adjacent to beautiful-looking residential areas and always maintain their vehicle's backyard lawn and flower gardens nicely. Appearances count!

Currently, I know of 5 people living in their cars. I've also read numerous articles of people who live in their vehicles, & pay a parking fee daily/weekly/monthly, in order to park their cars in parking garages overnight, and sleep there, with hired security guards on the premises.

3 of the people I know of living in their cars have full time jobs. Two of them are a married couple. She works as an LVN, and he dri es full time for Uber and/or Lyft. They were both almost retired, and both of them were laid off during the pandemic, & eventually lost their rental home. They're on a list for low income housing, that can take two years or more for them to find an apartment.

The other person I know of just refuses to get a place, & doesn't care if they have a roof over their head or not. The other two I am aware of are addicted to drugs (pain pills/Fentanyl), and will likely remain homeless, because they refuse to get sober, hence are completely dysfunctional & have prioritized their addiction over housing.

As horrible as it appears, as well as being quite dangerous, surely it beats having no car to live in at all?

Forevermore.

Thousands of people are living in cars in the U.S. west coast and the desert west. Villages of car dwellers are hidden just outside of view. People park and live in them out in the public lands just out of the cities and towns. Oregon and Washington and California have epidemics of homeless car dwellers.. The big woods of the Pacific Northwest are a great hiding place for car dwelling residents. The US has failed to incentivize building of reasonable housing for normal people. Many available jobs won't afford rent and in many cases there is simply no housing even available for lower income people at all. We have all this wealth around us yet it is kept from people. Billions can be found right away for wars of choice on the other side of the planet. This is why we get people like Trump.These things never get fixed Biden has uttered a peep about it in 4 years.