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Living in a Car on $800 a Month
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Posted on 05/14/2018 4:02:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono

woman lives in her car


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: car; homeless; vanlife; wandxr
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1 posted on 05/14/2018 4:02:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

She needs to park in front of Starbucks. Free facilities, no questions asked.


2 posted on 05/14/2018 4:05:32 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: JoeProBono

we’ve always had such folks. and many of them have been...quite nice and cause little trouble... try to live without hurting or disturbing anyone else

but nowadays there are so many mental cases and crack addicts and winos and bums....all over the cities and even countryside was filling up with them the last 7 or 8 years...

some very difficult situations, not all anywhere as pleasant or apparently sane as the lady in this video


3 posted on 05/14/2018 4:08:35 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: JudyinCanada

Or Walmart parking lots where I see RV’s parked all the time, and see plenty of homeless type people hanging around.


4 posted on 05/14/2018 4:08:44 PM PDT by entropy12 (1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
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To: JudyinCanada

Needs some shoe polish, too.


5 posted on 05/14/2018 4:09:01 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: JoeProBono

I live in a 2-bedroom apartment plus pay gas and electric, combined cable, phone and internet, and spend $800 or less. Not sure where she has her car parked, but she needs to move to a different part of the country.


6 posted on 05/14/2018 4:11:06 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: JoeProBono

I have seen tons of these people camped out in the desert from Quartzsite down to Yuma. Some on the California side of the border. When the Summer heat comes they head North.


7 posted on 05/14/2018 4:12:49 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: JudyinCanada

Everybody is living in a Van...

Down by the River!

I ran into a pair last week,
A couple with a Chihuahua and a
Rottweiler living in a VW camper!

Look up “wandxr”

That was there license plate.


8 posted on 05/14/2018 4:14:04 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: mass55th

But in an apartment no one could see her Obama ‘08 and 2012 bumper stickers.

Might as well call the article “Seeing the USA on Social Security”


9 posted on 05/14/2018 4:14:34 PM PDT by Justa
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To: faithhopecharity

we’ve always had such folks.

Saw old photos of San Francisco, guys sleeping in a car around 1930 - they had jackets, ties, looked clean, and were cooking and brewing coffee - over the car engine they had hooked up a stove. Cop was watching them brew coffee.


10 posted on 05/14/2018 4:28:47 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: JoeProBono

Thanks for posting. Mildly interesting (got through half...not for me). Alternative lifestyles BUMP!

Music for the thread....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyV41-tFPcQ


11 posted on 05/14/2018 4:30:03 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: JoeProBono

I experienced living in my car for 3 days. It was Summer and I was miserable. I actually had a large amount of money coming but until I got to my parents house I was very nearly broke.

When I got to around 22 miles from home, I was totally broke and nearly out of gas. I phoned Daddy and he met me half way with a can of gas.

A few days later I got a check for $8,800 and it sure was appreciated.

I could have stopped at various kin folks and got help but just thought it would be interesting to see if I could make it by myself.


12 posted on 05/14/2018 4:30:53 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: mass55th

Her $800 budget includes food.


13 posted on 05/14/2018 4:38:14 PM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: JoeProBono

Shipping containers are pretty nice to live in if you can built them right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rmchyxokBQ


14 posted on 05/14/2018 4:40:23 PM PDT by GraceG ("Trust, But Verify the Plan!")
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To: PGalt

“Somebody get me a cheeseburger!”

The world needs more ladies like this who find ways to be self-sufficient. At one time this was called “being an American”.

And more Steve Miller.


15 posted on 05/14/2018 4:40:52 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: bigbob

Agree : )


16 posted on 05/14/2018 4:48:22 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: JoeProBono

Yeah well let the fed, state, SSI, Medicare, state pension fund, state pension insurance, healthcare, eye and dental deductions all take their share out of a paycheck and I don’t have much more....After working all month.


17 posted on 05/14/2018 4:52:44 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: entropy12
Heck back in the early - mid 80's....I parked our RV...in Hospital parking lots all the time....

We were not homeless.....HA!!!

18 posted on 05/14/2018 4:54:16 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: yarddog
Hell...One night I took my two Border Collies to the local lake,,,and pitched a tent...and attempted to sleep...

They had other ideas....chasing voodoo's and goblin's..and such all night.

Was fun....in a way...but a bad idea.

19 posted on 05/14/2018 4:57:55 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: JoeProBono

I’ve often joked that I have slept in the parking lots of the most expensive hotels in the country.

Having just spent a week in the Time Square Mariot Marquis, I can spend a few weeks in Europe for less including crossing the pond costs.


20 posted on 05/14/2018 5:15:46 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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