What are the positives and the negatives?
No. I’ve done it, and it is dangerous, uncomfortable, unhealthy, and often unsanitary. Plus it is illegal most places.
Beats the shit out of a shelter or the street though.
I would do it if it were legal.
As a libertarian who tends to get along really well with socialists, it boils my blood that living in one’s car is illegal. There is absolutely no reason reason for that law other than “fuck poor people”.
Poor people are an inconvenience. They often don’t produce anything of value, and they aren’t consumers on a large enough scale to be worthwhile. So they should be banned.
I’m sure some 1% type has said this at sometime.
Going to the bathroom in the middle of the night sounds like a negative
I lived in a small travel trailer for a year. That was bearable, because it had the semblance of a small domicile. It also has the benefit of blending in, if parked in areas where you’re assumed to be camping or just passing through. At the end of that year, I was definitely over it, though.
When I imagine living in a car for the same amount of time, I can only think of negatives.
I can attest it feels like being in a cage and that it’s one that’s prone to the elements.
Car, no. Camping trailer… only thing holding me back is convincing the wife.
Absolutely not. There are no upsides to it that would outweigh the negatives, and I have other options long before getting to that point.
Definitely not. I would rather consider moving somewhere else, where the rent isn’t that bad. Unfortunately that’s not an option for many people.
I would already be living in a vehicle, but I can’t drive (low vision) so it’s never going to be an option for me.
About 10 years ago I was looking into bike towed campers as a security plan for an unstable housing situation, only to learn they are illegal to tow in my country. You can own one, sleep in one, and tow it on private property, but to move it from one property to another legally I’d need to pay someone with a car to put it in a car trailer, then unload my camper at the destination.
Well one big negative would be that I don’t have a car.
I was pretty close to needing to, and may be again soon. Needing to shower is a big issue, as is needing a place to keep my dog when I’m at work. Fortunately I have a good network of friends that I’m pretty sure I’d have a couch to crash on for a month or so but it is a perpetual concern in the back of my mind.
Yes and it was a great time!
Now I’ve got a roommate in an apartment that costs $725/month with everything but electric included and a decent paying job!
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Without a legal mailing-address, you will be blocked from participating in much of the online-economy.
“no shipping address?” XOR “we won’t ever ship to rural people, P.O. boxes, or any other non-CITY bullshit.”
There’s a book which discusses this, named “The Addres Book”, by Deirdre Mask.
Some jurisdictions may require you to be treated as a valid citizen, even with a P.O. box “address”, but I don’t know of any jurisdiction that does that.
No address?
Your life will be stomped, & from what I’ve seen, you get deemed a vagrant/homeless by enforcement, too.
You can kind of get around this in my country by putting in a long term mail redirection at the post office. You can just keep updating your drivers licence and other paperwork at the old address. Its only a matter of time till it gets found out but it will probably work for a fairly long time.
