What does Jow Forums think of the #vanlife movement? People are choosing to sell all of their possessions and live in vans.
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Yeah, but where do you shit at?
Its okay i guess
How do people who live a transient life make money?I imagine you need gas and shit. Are they the new trust fund hippies or something?
the loo
>The median price for a home in 1950 in inflation-adjusted dollars was $44,600
>2019 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Extended Cargo Van MSRP: From $49,090
Pretty amazing that a nice van today costs as much as an entire house in the 50's, makes sense though, you can only afford so much and millennials grew up in the recession so aren't likely to drop 250k on a house they know could be worth half as much the next year
If I had a few months to dick around I would buy a van, fit it out with a bed like that, and go drive around the country eating at waffle house and sleeping at McDonald's.
Outside the van, hopefully.
Seems pretty free. It looks like it beats the NEET lifestyle.
why the fuck did I say McDonald's I meant walmart. got me thinking about them hotcakes I guess.
i live in a shipping container so its not that weird
cheap is cheap
Their parents fund it, or they at least have parents to fall back on when it goes to shit (and it will).
Probably working odd jobs here and there.
Public restrooms.
Post pics.
only fucking wooks do this
Where do you shower at?
Also where do you fuck at?
The neet is a leech just like ((them)).
It all depends really.
All of your bathroom needs can be handled in a lot of ways including having a membership from one of the major Gyms out there. Cleaning clothes can be at a laundromat of course but dry cleaning is an option with the extra cash, just drop it off and come back later. Eat out every night, small fridge for drinks. Large monitor/screen wired up with internet for entertainment, surround sound if you want to get crazy. Whole roof covered in solar panels and a powerwall pack installed on the floor under the bed.
If you look at some builds you can configure the space to allow for work/entertainment and then reconfigured for sleep.
Not ideal, not something that you would want to be doing into your late 30's but for the short term it is a totally viable option where you don't really give up on much.
yes goyim, mansion for me, van for thee
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Its being pushed by serial killers. Cctv is such a buzz kill. Victims need to isolate themselves again.
Real escapism hours. I've found a lot of supposed "minimalists" really just want to have so little that it's hard for their scumbag friends to steal from them and don't want to deal with communication from the rest of society telling them that they're deadbeats.
Basically it's suicide for pussies.
Rehashed from the 70s-80s.
lmao I hope you are telling the truth.
disgusting and dumb
I remember a great series of ancient threads on chanarchive (now dead) that was from an user living in a van. He explained how to get free WiFi, and all that. I was hoping to follow in his footsteps. Now it seems like a good way to develop depression and become stir crazy. Really nice as an alternative secondary living option.
Inflation nigger
The last guy to make these post on pol
Got arrested for fake bombs.
Sounds very peaceful.
Cramped.
No land to call your own.
Failure.
you get a gym membership so you can use their facilities to shit and shower
>reading comprehension
Sad!
How did he get free wifi?
>Now it seems like a good way to develop depression and become stir crazy.
If you did it out in the country with some other anons it seems like it could be fun.
Thanks im heading /out/
What planet are you from to come up with that shitty post
Fag
Is what happens when a NEET is kicked out of his parents basement.
Parking outside of shopping centers and McDonald's and the like. Super cool, because he modded his van to look fairly generic to not attract attention and installed solar panels on the roof and stuff.
the world is your land. You can literally go drive to some crown land (or whatever they call public land in America) and have the whole forest to yourself
Owning a home is not affordable unless you live out in the middle of nowhere, away from all the work, and build some tiny house yourself. Mortgages are fucking scam. Wages haven't kept up with the cost of living and steady jobs are increasingly hard to come by.
Then you have people who simply don't want to be tied down to one location. If you are content to spend your entire life in one small pocket of suburbia you are either comically boring or a disheveled mad genius working on a magnum opus, usually the former.
Who the fuck buys a Mercedes Benz van
Buy 40 acres in the desert AND a van.
long-range USB wifi antenna and a repeater
society has hit a wall and yet we still need more immigrants to support the boomers retirement, what shitty polluted world with no ideals or goals other than me first attitudes because of multiculturalism
Yeah and you'd get your hotcakes split when you get forcibly raped behind the dumpster by gay hobos
>Then you have people who simply don't want to be tied down to one location. If you are content to spend your entire life in one small pocket of suburbia you are either comically boring or a disheveled mad genius working on a magnum opus, usually the former.
You can't build a family when you're constantly moving. Maybe in your 20s it's fine to move around, but you can't do that forever, at some point you need to take a wife, have some kids and grow a family. And that requires laying down some permanent roots.
It seems pretty dumb to me. Cant stretch out cause your shits jammed in around you. Cant store staples like potatoes and onions (not that anyone actually knows how to cook anymore) because they sprout. You either risk trespass or sleep at a fucking walmart (which is fucked).
No space for hobbies. No freezer full of goodies. Squint to look at tiny screen. Cold. Hot. Hot or cold. Cant stand upright.
These people are the kind of people who enjoy pain. A lot of them are really good at presenting thier “lifestyle” in media, but anyone who has ever actually hit the road for a week can tell you that going home is the best part.
Full disclosure: i was transiet for a summer when i was young and never everything. I take a yearly motorcycle ride for a week to remind me of where i came from. I used to stealth camp but now everyone does it- may as well be in a trailer park. Anyway: i am always glad to be back home where i can have ice cream at 3 am because there is a freezer.
I think it's the only way to be a Man in modern America.
The Van is like your horse.
You get a homestead, just property with little or nothing on it.
If you get sick of it all, you can just get in your van and leave.
This is what Mountain Men used to do but that's no longer possible.
Assuming one can do their own maintenance, seems cool.
I'm a Security Guard I used to be posted to a Wal-Mart where I had to kick these people out of the parking lot at night almost every single van I knocked on the window of smelt like absolute hobo ass. They have some slightly bigger vans meant for doing deliveries that seem more roomy or just get a small RV...
hole in the floor. no one will notice at high speed.
Compare the room and you'll see why they're a popular choice
You get some land. If you have the van, your land can be undeveloped but you develop it as you want/can.
>potatoes and onions sprout
I camped for years with potatoes and onions, it's no problem, just don't store them next to each other they get gross and slimy.
>freezer
These logistical problems have been solved by the beanest of $0ys.
You honestly sound like you're jealous or a bit of a faggot.
Going Inna wood means that evil wins.
This
pics or gtfo
Can confirm fuck wal-mart parking lots
You'd have to be a midget to sleep in that bed.
There's this finish carpenter who posts on Jow Forums who lives in a half ton truck with a house attached to the bed. He said that he even fucks college girls in it despite being like 38 or something.
I saved a few of the pictures he posted.
In the street of course.
We've hit a wall because there is such an established corporate domination of markets.
Even if new companies pop up and offer a better or cheaper product, those companies get bought out as soon as they become publicly traded, or they buy the company directly, and then the price goes up to match what it was before the market disruption.
We've legislated ourselves into a plutocracy, and there we will stay until people start starving. We are staving this off with welfare expansions, but eventually the bill is going to come due, and everything is going to collapse.
Founding father warned us about letting the free market become more powerful than the government, but they also warned about the government becoming more powerful than the people, and that is the one that people remember unfortunately.
Sounds like a good friday night
OP is a sicko that abducts people in a van: Confirmed
Glorified homelessness
If there's one thing broke white faggots are good at, it's glorifying and fashionizing poverty.
I intend to convert a 1-tom American van probably a Ford.
I can do the 4x4 conversion myself because I'm a handy genius and I've done it before to other trucks, I'm Masters level, not quite Phd at it.
The Dodge vans are the same thing might as well get that and have wider maintenance options but you're right.
This looks like a 4x4 conversion and boy are they fucking pricey.
I planned it out down to the washer (I know all the parts required down to every last nut and bolt and inch of MIG wire) and I can get into a 1-ton 4x4 ford van with nearly brand new V8 for
I want to travel the country killing Jews. This lifestyle is perfect.
That looks like the Guadalupe mountains.
Was homeless working 50+ hrs a week in a warehouse (thanks socal) for a year or two. Now I'm "homeless" and driving a semi truck for 3 years.
Would not recommend, but it's whatever. Faggot cops would rather you go live in a shelter with aidsniggers than park on a side street half a mile from any homes/open businesses.
Not any fun life, but such is cis white male privilege. You can cook Top Ramen off engine heat...so that's cool
I never quite understood the van life thing for anyone except single young people. For more established families I would think the tiny house movement or a return to traditionalism would be better.
The key is to not try to live a Boomer life style with a Millennial income. In that manner they're sticking it to the Jews big time, and I applaud them for it.
Sounds like a really quick and easy way to get into the meth scene.
hahahah
A lot of people buy lots of useless shit these days. Lots of clothes, electronics. And also like those guys on American Pickers, not the hosts but all the boomers that multiple buildings full of trash, I don't even know how that's possible.
I like to own as little as possible, just enough to be comfortable. And the things I do buy are something worth investing in, not some useless junk.
Corporate Bootlicker
I am never going to have a 5,500 sq ft mansion, an exotic car, a yacht, or 1st Class tickets.
It's not going to happen for me.
Why shouldn't I check out and live as simply as possible and enjoy myself?
I would feel totally differently if I had access to my crotch spawn but I don't so fuck it.
I'm an autist wiht a very rich internal life, I've already fucked a lot, and since I have nothing left to lose I have perfect freedom.
Adult diapers
Said the glamper.
Even though I know you're a Chinese immigrant, I feel a close bond with you brother.
That picker show just makes me get TMJ as I grind my teeth in my dreams.
>entire ranches filled with shit
>someone takes the grill off of an historic automobile and puts lights on it to put in a living room.
If it means I can deprive China of shit, I will do it.
I love nice things and because I love nice, high quality things, I don't need MANY things.
I am still a materialistic man but I am discriminating.
>socal
Now there is your problem.
I wanna become a van man
Live the dream, user, live the dream.
Self-employed in the finance industry...a lot of us are just burned out from the suit life. Saves money on rent.
t. nomadic van dweller/traveler 6+ years
>scumbag friends stealing
How does this happen?
Better idea
>Buy 40 acres in the desert
>invite van and RV anons to live on your land in exchange for helping you build an adobe home.
Van life best life.
Post pics of your van.
>You can't build a family when you're constantly moving.
provably false. carnies and gypsies both usually have big families, and are always moving onto the next place to scam people.
>bragging on the internet about all the fat ugly unwashed college girls that hang out in your weird camper van
you have to consider what normal people are like to really believe a story
"traveler" aka "fancy hobo"
you're surviving. good for you. hope things get better.
This kind of life has high running costs. Pay more for fuel, pay more for food, pay more to wash and shit, etc. If you're already low on money, this will keep you broke forever.
The van either has a mobile home toilet amd shower closet, or they go inside public restrooms, or they make a makeshift potty bowl.
Post some more pics.
been to this exact spot in Utah
Do you niggers never go outside or something? The amount of stupid questions in this thread is fucking astounding. Public WiFi, public restrooms, laundrymatts. All these things make the van life viable and save crazy amount of money if you are really committed. You can also get a hotplate and cook your own food, cuz I'm sure that retarded question is asked somewhere to.
Super fancy. I net twice what most people gross, am off by noon est and then decide where I'm going and what I want to do.
Freedom is scary to weak willed people, that's why they mock those that found it.
Yeah. I fucked off in my 20's and basically check out of normie life. Finally got tired enough I came back around. Still don't really "want" big house/car/trophy wife..but I bet by 35 I'll make more money
I can do with and retire by 40.
Hope my faggot of a father lives just long enough to get assblasted by the success I've been fighting against all my life. Fuck boomers.
Why opt for a van when you could become a rocket man?