it's also pretty scary
you will never do any of these things
Just find a quiet area of a nice neighbourhood to sleep in?
I dunno, people do crazy things. We're all cushed up kids who never had to, and when people say "THIS IS CRAZE BUT I'M GONNA DO IT!" our first reaction is "yeah, okay. i said that once. know what i done about it? zippo." but it doesn't have to be like that with everybody.
sorry but when a dude comes in and goes WOULDN'T IT BE COOL TO RENOVATE A VAN AND LIVE IN IT, I COULD GET SPONSORSHIP FROM CAR COMPANIES AND MAKE MONEY!!!!! i do not see it as something that is likely to ever really happen
Theres a craze in britain atm for gassing people in caravans through the side vents whilst they are sleeping and robbing them blind. I saw it on some alarmist TV show.
nah, broken windows syndrome. neighborhood watches will spot him aaaaand then he's in jail for like six hours for two hundred dollar bail because he decided to dry a shirt. don't stay in a nice neighborhood. don't DO this but if you have to school parking lots on weekends are usually good ideas, and you have to be cautious as fuck when you're doing anything that is LIFE like taking a shit, making food, laundry.
i mean he's not going to get jacked the first time but almost everyone i knew got harassed by cops or had to call the cops and none of them were going in southeast raleigh or anything. people are jerks!
also i was under the assumption everything other than "maybe i'll live in a van" was hyperbole.
there are no gypsies in americaare you sure???
Seriously though, I think the van thing would be a huge mistake for you. Try apartment hunting online (Rent.com (http://www.rent.com), http://www.apartmenthunterz.com, or the real estate section on Yahoo. Then just get a roommate to split the bill with you.I was thinking about it, but if I have to pay any more than $400/month I might as well dorm (car, insurance, cell phones all add up). I could at most get a 1-bedroom and share it, which doesn't sound appetizing to most people anyway.
I want to limit my run-ins with others that don't understand what VanDwelling is about.
to avoid being bothered by cops or others that feel that VanDwelling is not right.
Honestly, you could do this. I am not saying it would be the BEST IDEA, but this is doable. First of all, I don't agree with Jamie; staying in nice neighborhoods will not work. People don't like looking out their windows and seeing mysterious vans parked across the street, especially when all the other cars are Audis and Mercs and shit. It's just ludicrously conspicuous. Buuuut I was talking to Steel about some other options and came up with a few. One is you could find an apartment building/complex, one where cars are parked all over and no one knows which cars belong to whom or, for that matter, really knows anyone at all. At this point you'd be able to get away with parking there and no one would even know you weren't supposed to. People probably wouldn't notice or report you, and cops don't really randomly cruise around apartment building parking lots so you're probably safe from them.The reason jamie sounds so unbelievable to you about that is because here even in a lot of semi nice neighborhoods people don't have garages and park on the road outside their houses. A van isn't going to draw anyone's attention parked anywhere for a night.
dc i thought you regretted nothing???i do
First of all, I don't agree with Jamie; staying in nice neighborhoods will not work. People don't like looking out their windows and seeing mysterious vans parked across the street, especially when all the other cars are Audis and Mercs and shit.
old people look out windows.
Is the USA really divided into GHETTO and PLACE WHERE PEOPLE DRIVES AUDIS?
it's a perception thing. audis are closer to bmws and aston martins and shit than they are to FORDS. i think you might think audis are cheaper than they are; the ones people really care about can be pretty pricey. you can get a merc for like 30k or you could spend that much on a chevy but clearly there's a difference that goes beyond pricepoint.
i mean theyre a notch above shit like lexus which are generally regarded as lower-end luxury cars. idk why you would think any of this tbh
really? why would you think this? actually i know why but it's kind of humorous you know. it's like not recognizing the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire. like you have to realize some cost 35k and some cost 90k and some cost 400k. they can't all be the same!maybe this is just seeing superbowl commercials for luxury vehicles and kind of subconsciously throwing anything with a price tag over 35k into the IGNORE pile because I will never drive one in the near future. i dont know. i mean, I guess I probably assumed mercedes were the most expensive of the lot (i know there are models >80k) but other than that they all look the same to me. I dont know anything about cars, man.
why is upper middle class nuts?
er i meant middle class, my bad. basically his implication that audi is a car you see a lot.
do you really use your television enough to spend $850 on it. thats insane
i would not want to be THE GUY WITH THE HUGE TV FUCK YEA BRO *brofist* but thats just me. just lil old me
if you can't find anywhere to park just go park in a hospital parking lot and either sleep in the van or go sleep in the waiting room. pretend you have family there.if it ever comes to that i'll put u up bud, u just gotta find your own way to the west coast
this thread is very informative to me because this may very well be my future.
ahaha were you that guy who wore his jacket all the time? in the spring, in class, everywhere. were you jacketguy.
DUDE WHO DRESSES LIKE SEINFELD
ahaha were you that guy who wore his jacket all the time? in the spring, in class, everywhere. were you jacketguy. thats not as bad as trenchcoat guy but thats probably the worst you could be, to be fair. imagine being defined by your coat. this guy walked into my english class wearing a fucking trenchcoat in september and i almost laughed but didnt. the last time i saw him he was in 9th grade and i was in 12th and he was reading a pamphlet about mobile gundam g or whatever the fuck. time....*smirks* time makes fools of us allHeh -- I was jacketguy in middle school. I wore this crusty old military jacket EVERY day, even if it was 100+ degrees out. Eventually the armsleeves started to fray off and I looked like a hobo. I TOOK 2 OF MY MIDDLE SCHOOL PICTURES IN THIS JACKET. *2*! The second time the cameraman told me to take the jacket off. I was like "Dude. This is my legacy." "Really? That's pretty sad man." So yeah, I pretty much stopped wearing jackets afterward. That said, I was also the smelly kid. :3
BACK TO CAMPER VANS: the bedford rascal / suzuki supercarry is perfect for your needs. enjoy not getting any though :(Grandmother passed away recently, so we all got together at my uncle's place to mourn. Thing is, my uncle doesn't really have a *place* as much as he does an outhouse and an RV camper. Flies -- everywhere. And even though I often brag about SoCal weather, he lives more inland in the desert where it gets fricking hot midday and fricking cold at night. Seeing as how my brothers called dibs on sleeping in the car, I got to sleep in his old camper shell. He lived in this thing for 3 years before he got the RV. It actually looks like he did pretty well, considering where he was living. And the thing isn't in bad condition. Hmm...