In her powerful new book, “Nomadland,” award-winning journalist Jessica Bruder reveals the dark, depressing and sometimes physically painful life of a tribe of men and women in their 50s and 60s who are — as the subtitle says — “surviving America in the twenty-first century.” Not quite homeless, they are “houseless,” living in secondhand RVs, trailers and vans and driving from one location to another to pick up seasonal low-wage jobs, if they can get them, with little or no benefits.
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Bull Cheese.
I know plenty of successful people who actively planned for such a life.
Retirement life could be a lot worse than this.
Homeless? Maybe, sort of. But they're far from living under a bridge. Heck, their RV is way nicer than the house I grew up in, and almost as big.
I'd LOVE to retire and cruise around North America in an RV.
Exactly, Youtube is packed with people who have said “enough” to the rat race, were very successful, but gave it up, and now live as modern day “nomads” in their campers.. and they love it. Its by choice for a lot of them.
That's what it's like when the bloom is off the prose.In her powerful new book, “Nomadland,” award-winning journalist Jessica Bruder reveals the dark, depressing and sometimes physically painful life of a tribe of men and women in their 50s and 60s who are — as the subtitle says — “surviving America in the twenty-first century.”
In her book, “Nomadland,” journalist Jessica Bruder reveals the life of a tribe of men and women in their 50s and 60s who are — as the subtitle says — “surviving America in the twenty-first century.”
like "Route 66"...
and many people DO aspire to live such a life...
making a crisis out of everything these days...