A couple working hourly jobs in the Denver metro said housing prices were so high they decided to save money by moving out of their apartment and doing the van life.
Not everybody who does Van Life is slipping under the cracks. I'm a Software Engineer and work remotely. A lot of us are working professionals who don't want to pay these prices for rent, simply put.
@Terry L. Cooper Hell yeah! Likewise, I'm loving this idea. I love minimalism and I just don't want to be one of these HENRY's who are making 6 figures and living on a 6 figure budget. Money is great but i don't want to fall victim to over consumption and all of that nonsense. I am young still only about to turn 31... my generation is royally screwed in terms of outlook on having the potential to retire so i'd like to live well below my means as long as possible so can invest for retirement or to become financially independent sooner. It wouldn't be wise of me to just spend frivolously. Also, with remote work why not? I mean, I can go and just live life and adventure. The idea just seems worth it. I mean, I come from the ghetto and i only just started this software engineering career. I don't want to live beyond my means. I've made it this far without the needs of things I think it would be nice to continue it honestly. Even though I can explore a lot more. I actually don't think I'll move and adventure much since most of my idea of van life is really just living out of the van. I don't want to drive a whole lot. I rather choose 3 or 4 locations to live in based on the season and rotate between them. But, to be there for 3 or months at a time until I build my nest egg large enough to do a little more traveling about.
Don't want to pay prices? Don't need to live a van either it's a choice..not like you can't afford it..that's the problem with today's society me me me...
@@lutomson3496 Hahahaha, what do you do bro? You sound like an angry landlord who is mad some one isn’t giving you their money Lmfao. Yeah, this is my choice… worry about your self and live your own life. That is what this country is founded on freedom of choice. If you don’t like it then leave
@@lutomson3496 I literally just said it’s my choice, I’m not slipping under the cracks, and yes it’s all about me and I fully intend to continue winning and doing me. What are you mad about? That a person in the USA chose to not pay rent lmao… you must be a landlord who isn’t getting tenants because people don’t want to pay the exploitive prices you’re attempting to collect 😹😹😹 shove it
@@lutomson3496 that or you’re some hater living van life and struggling and guess what that is a choice too baby boy. I just mad better choices than you. Also, guess what I live a great life and I’m doing so 1 year after leaving behind a life of living on section 8 and food stamps… I didn’t get here being spoon fed. I got here by not hating, asking for information, and making better choices than you currently are and im not going to feel bad for doing so. You have your own choices to make and if the choices you make suck then that is your fault. Have the nuts to suck it up and continue to try better not spread hate like a loser vs asking the right questions and getting information that could help you out. Do you want to restart and try again? Because, you can choose to be a loser or change that today
The American dream has dried up for the blue collar worker. No longer can you afford a simple home. And the credit system has kept those with bad credit out of everything.
Not true. My kids…31 and 29 both own homes with their spouses. Former son in law is 40 and owns a home. The 31 year old is an Air Force E7…29 year old works in an auto parts section of a car dealer. It can be done…just have to stop being lazy and blaming others for your failure rather than putting the blame where it belongs.
For me to stay within a budget, no matter your earning or lack of and when you earn, SAVE as much as possible, I'm 67, not collecting SS yet, living on my taxable IRA and if necessary my savings. If I make it to 70, I'll start my Social Security
but what if you were my age? I see these reports and worry about my apartment rent going up. So far it's gone up $125 since we moved in about 3 years ago. But the 'market' drives landlords' decisions. I will be 67 next month and both my husband and me are disabled with a care giver who comes into the home. And if you are homeless you won't receive SSI. I don't get that now but if I did they would take it away if I didn't pay rent. When I lived in the city, I've seen ladies living off the street priced out of their home at my age and older.
Don't be so discouraging. This could be a come to the rescue idea for people who are being evicted because they can't afford the rent. Any port in a storm as they say. A full understanding of the what would be required should be made of course but for a short period it just might be better than being homeless.
@@jeepluver3195 no it's not! Legal bud!! Sorry you hate people? Weed is free? I grow my own bud! Don't waste government funds on tests? You have no idea?
My wife and I live in a 1995 Dodge Dakota 4x4 and couldn't be happier about our choice! What a great way to get even with employers that won't pay enough, and with landlords that charge to much!!
@Leon Wilcox Henry May not be from Denver. People living in big cities like NYC and LA, have always found it difficult to own property. And if he was making close to what is considered average wages, there’s no way. The major issue is that places all over the country are seeing this issue. There is absolutely no reason home prices should cost twice as much as they did five years ago. And property owners are faces with those taxes, and have no choice but to raise the rent or sell. And the people that buy, tend to be investors, perpetuating the problem.
@Leon Wilcox “dirt cheap” like in NYC and LA? That’s why I mentioned those specifically. They may have been much cheaper, but probably still out of reach for many back then.
@Leon Wilcox And you will suffer consequences for bad decisions you are making now that you can't see. I hope others won't be as unkind to you as you are.
@@annasbandit ... watch this channel man,it might give you an option to be happy with your life ..... "every man has a story" ... that's the guy's youtube channel .....
I'm about the same age as you. People our age had EVERY opportunity to buy a very affordable home and have it paid for long before retirement age. My first house had a mortgage of $118. a month. If anyone is 40 years old or over there was ample time to have bought a very affordable home. If they didn't they just weren't making adult decisions. It's different now for young people. Remember the story of the Grasshopper and the Ants?
@@eckankar7756 what do you call affordable for people who have to both work and have kids? they can never quit work? Or never have kids? No. Homes have not been 'affordable' for a very long time. For one thing there are no starter homes anymore. Everyone has to try to buy the executive home. Because that's all they build now and older homes are priced up too unless they're a dump. It is a false market boosted by several false booms.
They live better than most people in cities do. I did vanlife for six months on the East coast from Miami to New York and the west coast for six months. Really good experiences and help me work thru a rough patch in my life. Now I know if stuff gets bad I always have that as an option. Which isn’t that bad at all.
Very good, I'm considering 🤔 van life myself. For some of the same reasons. You never know what life will throw at you. I would love to have the skills and a plan to survive just in case.
Lol sure they do . Have you ever lived in a vehicle? It sucks, I’ll take crappiest apartment in Harlem before I lived in a van. At least I’d be able to take a shower when I wanted .
This option could never be for me because I like to live and not survive. I'll be the first to admit that a lot of Americans have a lot of stuff but to not be able to shower daily or go to the bathroom when your body tells you it's time is for the birds. A nomadic vacation sounds great but not life. When I hear we can spend our money on what we want to and not have to pay rent is alarming because in life you have to pay for stability.
This is so ridiculous. If people want their hotel rooms cleaned and want waiters busboys cooks Landscaper’s house cleaners they’re going to have to provide places for these people to live.
My favorite area I would love to live in is not affordable at all for the workers doing those jobs. They are building homes and apartments for people for the past two years to handle the lack of employees. It is a town known for seasonal work, but parks workers, cooks, supermarkets, teachers could not find homes. Many home buyers buy for vacation and rent like airbnbs. The new homes will be against those uses. It is still not affordable as the annual income is less than 40,000 and means 800 rent.
The rich will bite off their noses despite their face in this situation its already beginning in vail they just approved a parking lot for people to park their cars to sleep overnight because no one can afford to even share 1 bedroom apartments in the mountain towns like vail and aspen soon enough they wont have people to serve their food or clean their hotels and theyll realize theyve fucked up its funny my wife and I actually live in a rv in my friends backyard in denver and even though it's been the best financial decision we've ever made we desperately miss living in a Normal house like we used to but I know that will never be possible in this trash country again so I make due and enjoy having a savings/investment account unlike 80% of this country
I'm glad someone's taking notice this time. It happened in the 80s and the 90s. And during the great recession of 2008. But this time it's simple greed To think that people have to resort to this in America is beyond sad. It's ridiculously sad.
My 2 cents are it’s completely parents’ fault. I was never taught, not once, about how to afford a home. As Dave Ramsey is find of saying “What you have is an income problem.”
@@coloradobrad6779 because the tools we used to do that with are gone. a big one is the savings account that draws 3-5% interest. another one is the 'starter home'
You do know that the USA, the self proclaimed richest country in the world, has people living in the streets and nothing is done to help them. Police break up their encampments and people yell at them get a job. As you can see they are not ALL like that. This can happen to educated, hard working people with children who did nothing to deserve such a situation. Simply being ill in the States can bring one or a family to be living on the streets. Not until the US takes care of it's people instead of big business will the downfall of a country that worships the almighty dollar get out of the mess it is currently in.
I think it's b.s that people that own land aren't allowed to live on it unless they build a Huge ass house. It's only to get more in property taxes for the county. This is not home of the free.
It's because the kids of the rich make it alluring to do theses things , people who live check to check are just a lost check to a cardboard box. They have robots to build there future, we are just in the why.
@@danieljones1784 It would be nice to not have zoning laws and building codes, but letting people do whatever they want simply doesn't work. Look at what's happening with homeless encampments moving into middle class neighborhoods. There's crime, trash, rats, cockroaches, urine, feces, drugs, needles, and all manner of things that no homeowner wants near their property. I own a house on an acre of property and I don't want my neighbors creating trash dumps, raising livestock, allowing their houses to decay, etc. It's unfortunate but not everyone cares about how what they do affects others.
We did this too. It’s a very tough way to live. The one thing that people don’t talk about is the mold. It’s very easy for mold to grow in these spaces. I was sick chronically from mold exposure the entire time we lived in our little travel trailer. We did our best - even re-painted everything, treated everything, had damp-rid everywhere, opened the windows when possible... it was such an awful struggle. We had two full time jobs. The space rent to park anything in our town ranged from $675-$2000 per month. No space available for certain parts of the summer. We had dogs so it wasn’t safe for us to leave them without heat and AC so we had to plug in. Living in a van is not very safe without a secure place to park. So many people are living in vans right now that you almost always have neighbors who are also van-lifing. You also have to be careful about parking in the woods because you may inadvertently park next to an even more unfortunate soul - a tweaker. The PNW for example has so many tweakers. We had a neighbor that ended up in the woods with his children and a tweaker knocked on the door to their trailer claiming that it belonged to him. Their are folks who can make it into something glamorous and fun. Generally those folks are not living paycheck to paycheck. I grew up believing that America was a blessed and wonderful country. In the last few years I’ve almost completely lost hope. Stay safe everyone. We will just have to pray that someone grows a backbone and stands up for us.
I'm moving into my mom's basement, the high cost of living makes it worth it. I also work for a rental property company, I sometimes stay in one of the vacant rentals until it's rented and at the same time I make sure squatters don't try to move in them.
We lived the vanpacking lifestyle to save money in college, and to camp on our land when we saved enough to pay cash for it. Then we started homesteading and building our home and out buildings. The fence came first, then the chicken coop, then a large barn where we parked the van to camp during a cold winter while gathering supplies, all before the first room of the earth sheltered house was built. It's a good strategy for keeping your own wealth to invest in yourself.
We thought about doing this buts it’s actually illegal in a lot of places in the US. A lot of counties have passed laws recently that you are not allowed to park an RV on property and live in it unless you can prove you have contracted to build a home. Even then, people aren’t allowed to park for 3 years even if their home takes 3 years to build. They are literally cutting off every creative option.
@@whattheactual4546 We live in an unincorporated rural area of Missouri where there are no laws about camping on your own land. DNR might get involved if you don't take of your waste or you pollute a body of water owned by the state.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 You haven't priced out fences have you? These people are broke, they can't afford a huge fence, not that that would be a solution anyway. Here's a thought. Get a job and room share till you get ahead. The problem is no one will work anymore.
Inspiring. I'm 55, make 36k a year and share the rent on a house with 4 other 50 somethings just so I can enjoy a few things and have a car. Glad these folk found a way to sleep well👍
@@Trentberkeley86 It's not that the wages aren't good: it's that inflation is too high. With inflation, the price of everything goes up, but not the wages. Inflation screws up the market. People still believing that wages are the problem don't realize that inflation makes it unaffordable for small business owners to hire people at a wage relative to inflation. Also, going into a useful career helps.
@@MrKEMills well duh. Wages have to adjust with inflation, which they don’t. So wages have to go up because inflation won’t stop ever. That’s all bs anyway because corporations are making record profits and if you look at the richest people in the country, they are all getting richer everyday since the pandemic. It’s not complicated, the money is finite , and if the working class doesn’t get a bigger percentage of it, we are screwed
I did this back in 2001 when it was highly illegal even in liberal California. One thing I learned regarding finding a sleeping spot at night in a residential area, always go where there are other cars and just park. When you arrive, stay dark, get to bed and when you get up in the morning, get out. And don't stay in the same spot twice. I never had any problems. No knocks at the door by the cops. I learned that people walking down the street are busy enough with their own concerns and are not looking in the window of every car they go by. And this was 20 years ago before iPhones! It was a lot of fun, but it also had its challenges. It looks like it's gotten a lot easier with technology and the whole van life movement.
Good for you. I have lived to in a van back when gas was affordable. We traveled a lot for work , collecting seeds for land reclamation. Loved it . Great senery , fresh air, and some nice people.. Now I'm old. .SIGH....
It's good to see people fighting back. The more people start to "opt out" of this economy the better chance we have of getting them to chill out with the they will do this until we push back hard enough
I tell people, if you're single and have atleast a small suv, just move into it. Stop paying these greedy peoples second or 3rd mortgage. Stop throwing away 1500 to 2200 dollars a month on rent in an apartment. With cell phones, portable power, and the internet. Living in your car is very easy and comfy nowadays. Let that market crash hard and then when it's a fair price to rent either choose to rent or stick to living in your car. My sister is renting and she just found out it's getting increased by 900 dollars in a few months.
@@gadget_hack well for one thing you think landlords are greedy but you never taken the consideration of How High property taxes are in the cost of keeping things maintained. So you're basically telling all your friends to go homeless because if you live in a car you are homeless because the car is not a home if you live in a home and don't have a car you call yourself Carless
I've been living in a van for almost 10 years and I love it! I live in Wisconsin so I know all about cold weather but insulation and a diesel heater make it as comfortable as a regular house. The best part besides the money savings is the FREEDOM... Freedom from landlords, utility companies and lousy neighbors. People think I am homeless but in reality I have a house on wheels complete with solar power, internet, bed, fridge, toilet. The thumbnail is a picture of my van.
I am the same. 11 years living and working in my semi. Then retirement and I moved into a converted enclosed cargo carrier and switched out my minivan for a chevy pickup truck. I have everything I want. Food, bed, internet, a 32" flat-screen. A full kitchen and even a shower. I built the AC on the inside so nothing protrudes. 2 generators and custom made bed drawers for the truck. I can be gone in about 15 minutes. Yuma in the winter, Mexico for dental work, Mississippi for 'dry dock' and Grand Falls, MT for the summer or the mountains in Colorado. All done on $1100 a month and some savings that I never touch. When the time comes I will go in peace. I owe nothing and own everything. I am free. No noisy neighbors, no electricity bills or extortionate rents. Is it perfect? No of course not but you cut your coat according to your cloth and don't complain about it. Once I had a 3 bedroom in Miami with a swimming pool and a huge yard with palm trees. All it was was work. So go to work then work at home to just imitate a hamster in a wheel going nowhere.
@@mikearchibald744 My apologies Mike but I can't make out the syntax. Are you suggesting that everybody should own a home and 90 acres? Am I an 'issue' because I do not want to live like that? Maybe I totally misunderstood your post, if I did I am sorry.
@@izifaddag8221 I live rural, very different priorities. There are people here who live in mobile homes not much bigger than a trailer. And then build garages three times the size, which is weird, but it goes to show that 'home' isn't the physical surroundings, they can almost NEVER be big enough.
@@mikearchibald744 I am a nomad and prefer rural or small towns. Nice people and welcoming mostly. Owning land, then building a garage 3 times the size of your trailer is very very weird. Unless you had a business there.
What other country on this Earth where senior citizens who don't work all their lives pay taxes all their lives is homeless and have to live in vans in cars...?????😡so 😢😢😢
I'm glad there IS this option honestly. Why doesn't government de-zone neighborhoods and make tiny homes legal so we can flood the market with inventory thus deflation?
Because the government wants to control the people. They want as many people in a small area as possible. Why do you think most businesses don't build offices in the middle of nowhere? Because they can't. I want them to de-zone neighborhoods as well, but no, they tax and regulate the shit out of people instead and make it impossible to buy houses in certain cities. After some calculations, I realized that the government was basically 100% responsible for the housing market.
@@MrKEMills There are good people in gov and good parts of it....but... The regulatory side of government to me is like a wrecking ball crew that comes and says they'll knock down your stuff if you don't do what they say, and sometimes they just knock it all down for the heck of knocking sh*t down. Other times, like in China right now, they come with a whole group of wrecking ball crews.
It's also happening in Australia and in the 2 years I've spent living fulltime in my van, I'm always surprised at how many people are living fulttime in a van or car but still working fulltime. Rents are ridiculous, unaffordable so living in a van is my home and an option some of us have to make.
This has been in the planning stages for the last 50 years. It is only going to get worse as the elites really screw us with the help of our now fascist governments.
If I was in my 20's right now, I would do Van Life and save those rent checks but buying land is not cheap anymore. I remember back in the 80's you could buy an acre of land in Pa with a trailer on it for a few thousand dollars... now the land has been bought up by HOA's and building expensive homes in gated communities.
I'm becoming absolutely desperate. I'm just not understanding why our government does not feel like this is a priority!!! We have a billion dollars to send to other countries. But nothing they can do for those who live in our own damn country!!
because the American government is run by ex business owners & bought and paid for by current business owners. Those business owners are able to keep workers at low wages bykeeping them poor and desperate....exactly how businesses want their low income employees to be so they can retain them at shit wages....trap them...its american capitalist slavery.
Cap the rent! Real Estate investors have a right to make money and get rich. But do they have a right to price everyone out into the street? They are ripping everyone off.
Americans are lucky that it's legal. In the Netherlands it's forbidden to free camp. Though in the Netherlands if you are lucky you can live in abandoned buildings as a security. That comes with free energy and water for about 200,- per month. Only downside they can end it in one month notice... I did it for 8 years.
That's why the crazy homeless population in CA! The weather, average 70 degrees all year, a lot of the homeless are from colder regions of the US, if I were homeless and had SSI or SSDI I would move there too and get into a nice tent community.
@@zikemdg But the costs of everything are so high. I don't have much experience on solving the homeless problem, I just go by basic economics. I don't think homelessness can be solved in high cost cities. The solution to homelessness has to be found in lower cost, lower density more rural parts of our country. But then, that would take some coordination with the public services available, which many really don't want to do. Homeless maybe don't want to live in rural areas and the rural areas don't want all the poor people they can't take care of. A tough problem.
Its actually very simple. Legislate and build public housing. In Singapore 85% of the public lives in public housing. Housing is actually a declared Human Right ratified by the UN, this was WRITTEN by the american president at the time. Governments are culpable in not only not supplying housing, but 'by right' people should not even have to WORRY about their housing. In other words, governments are actively breaking their own legal international obligations.
We lived in our RV for 2 years. We now own a home with acreage. We grow, raise, forage, fish and hunt 90% of our own food. I preserve our harvest for future use. Everyone should do this.
The scariest thing I came across in my life living in my car is the consisted harrasment from others assuming I'm on drugs and that cause me to be unsafe and mental and that's why I'm homeless . You wouldn't believe me anyway .
I tried this got 2 acres , camper, all the equipment in the end it didn’t make mathematical sense because I was 20 miles away from town. Secondly most property you are not allowed to live on full time which is infuriating! Plus to build they want a septic system, but just like the video I had 200 cows 100yds from me, where was their septic system?
I own a home, but drive a converted van and have been testing living out of it up to 2 weeks at a time. Not having to drive back anywhere is awesome. There are ways to do it where nobody even notices you are living in a car. IMO, the trick is not to live in car, but rather only sleep in a car. Spend the day out doing stuff and not just inside on the couch. Bathroom is not a big deal and there are places and ways to shower around. I eat less.. one real meal a day and it's usually a nice lunch out. Fact is it can be a healthier and happier life filled with adventure for some.
I guess the modern day equivalent of folks in the 1800’s who loaded up the wagon and headed west? Not necessarily my cup of tea, but will readily agree that many of the trappings of modern life aren’t all they’re cracked up to be…..!!!
With the majority of office employees working from home, the Federal government needs to buy these empty buildings and turn them into low income housing.
No such thing as low income housing. Modern homes require resources that are expensive. You aren't entitled to said resources just for existing, unless you want us to go back to the days of our early American ancestors and build our homes ourselves?
I did this and loved my Life. Unfortunately I had to check back into life because my girl couldn’t take it anymore. Worse mistake of my life was keeping her.
Yeah I think we've all been there before. My ex used to say that men/ women/ whatever floats your boat, were like buses ....if you miss that one, another will be along in a minute. I wish I'd have missed that bus and taken the train 🤣
Having a home is now a luxury. It's because of all the property investors and flippers hogging up all the affordable houses for sale. They got homes but want to buy low....flip....then sell way too high. They are eating the poor out of sheer greed. It's disgusting.
Get investment institutions out of the housing market! Homes aren't meant to be investment vehicles. We need less landlords, and more single family homes on the market.
You mean end capitalism or just highly regulate it? I’m all for it but it will never happen. We need a massive , government subsidized home building campaign. I’m talking 50 million units in the next 20 years.
@@Trentberkeley86 you can't let them run sh*t, you know they'll eff it up. Watch Candyman, the REAL one from the 90s. That was Cabrini Green. You didn't even DRIVE past there, and you HAD TO if 90/94 S was backed up! I know police who wouldn't go there. What they showed you in the film was no BS. Read the article on the real story. Chicago Reader. They built a decent place, and I'm sure much corruption was involved. Then residents trashed it.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I see a lot of people, especially right wingers who like to push a narrative that the government cannot properly run anything, but for the most part it’s not true. We are the government, and any failure in it is our failure.I can name plenty of successfully ran government agencies that work and that people are happy with. Rich people just push the negative government thing to push their privatization and deregulation agenda. And of course I wouldn’t build ghettos again where we are just putting poor people all in the same place again, it won’t work, we have to integrate them with the working and middle classes and this wouldn’t be government ran, it would be subsidized.
@@Pratik4311 who cares what it cost? We spend $750 billion on defense a year but nobody seems to care about that. We could eradicate poverty within a decade with that type of money but the system isn’t designed to actually benefit people. Not to blame people like you but this notion that the government can’t work is false. It working all over the place, you’re just not admitting it but you’ll be glad to receive your social security check and Medicare when you retire.
I did this van life once in Cali allowed to save money fast which got me out of California. The same time I spent so much money eating out - I wasnt 100% dedicated to the van at that time which cost me. I like to do it again very soon but this time I will be better prepared.
I'm not sure I am comfortable with how they ended this on some rosy note: This isn't realistic for many people but I am happy for this couple. The horses are amazing.
Saturday/April/16/2022 ✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥🐇💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️ Thank you for the prayers 🙏 I don't live in a van, but I have been evicted last April/2021. I lived in a place for (9) years, I had a landlord who refused to do repairs, instead of him doing repairs, he refused to take my rent payment, but he turned around and filed for an eviction for none payment of rent. I was staying with a friend and her brother until I was able to get into another place of my own plus my friend had things to do, but they couldn't do much until I was able to get out into my own place. So, last month, I came across the place where I'm at now, and it's worse now than ever. I'm in a upstairs apartment, I'm finding myself not being able to go up and down the stairs like I used to, the windows are old fashioned windows they're hard to open and close, I'm not able to us my air conditioner, the mail box is on the side of the building which faces the alley and the neighborhood isn't the greatest, so I don't have my mail sent to the apartment, I have a post office box. So, I was thinking about maybe getting an RV or maybe going into a motel, but I have (2) cats. Other than that, I'm just grateful in believing Jesus Christ is still on the throne, and that he's about to take me from the pits to the palace just like he done with Joseph in the Bible... (Genesis 41: 1--5 ). I come to realizing to be able to get to know what God can do for us, we just have to be going through hell just to know exactly what he can do for us. It's not our well, but his well will be done. God bless, have a beautiful day 🌞 💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥
@@vanessamillican8447 God Bless you and thank you for sharing. The conditions surrounding your housing needs, just breaks my heart but your beautiful spirit and strong faith in our Lord and Savior, shines through & strengthens my own. This just strengthens my determination to find out, what I can do to make housing more accessible. Please continue to keep the faith. Love you much.
@@Everyoneisanartist776 Sunday/April/17/2022 💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥 🙌 Amen ! 🙌 Your welcome, and thank you for responding back to my comment. Yes, I am holding onto my faith in the Lord. Faith is all I have, and faith moves God. Faith and doubt doesn't mix. Just like Job in the Bible. He had everything at the beginning then he began losing everything, but he didn't lose his faith in God, then God blessed Job at the end with two hundred times more than what he had at the beginning. God even blessed Job and his wife with ten new kids just what they had at the beginning, seven sons and three daughters. What the Lord did for his people then, he's still doing it today. Now I must stay away from doubters they're like Thomas in the Bible doubters has to see it before they can believe it, most of the time doubters still doesn't believe even if they can see it, but if we can see what God is doing for us behind the counten, then it's not faith. So, yeah my situation may be looking ugly, but I believe God is about to turn the ugly into something beautiful. Well thank you, and God bless you, and Happy Resurrection ! Jesus Christ is reason hallelujah ! 💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥
@@miaflowers3572 💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥 🙌 Amen ! 🙌 God is good ALL the time 🙏 💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥 🙏 Psalm 136 🙏 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good. for his mercy endures for ever. 🙏 K J V 🙏 💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥 Blessings to you Miss flowers 😇 💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥✳️💥
this is my third year living in my vehicle I work full time and saving money I have more now then I ever had before not paying the ridiculous rents of Chicago IL.
It's not rocket science. Rents are too high. The golden calf of profits at the expense of housing stability is a price we as a society have agreed to pay.
I keep telling people the houses and land are strategically being purchased by investors and if the do come on the market , they doubled in price . So the same 2000sq fr that was $220,000 years ago is now on the market for $380,000 . So your paying more just to move next door to someone that purchased their home years ago for $175,000 but your also paying a lot more monthly for the same home size . Then the down side to it all is , apartments are going up and getting crime infested . It’s all strategic!!!!
Strategic indeed, properties being sold over and over to the highest bidder, paying for themselves many times over, and you never truly own it, a couple tax payments away from foreclosure, all the while low income gets left behind. I work a full time job and I have to stand in line like so many others and get the Govt. hand outs.
Our neighborhood in Az had been overrun with Vandwellers parking in front of our houses at night. In the morning I wake up finding their trash, poop, diapers, beer cans, cigarette butts, needles, vomit, condoms in my yard. Scary when I have 2 small children that could get infected by the trash they leave. We now have a neighborhood watch and call the police when they park here. A shame so many have chosen to be animals rather than respectful visitors.
I don’t agree with all of your conclusions, but I have empathy for your sentiments and your concerns are valid. Involuntary van-lifing is a very tough way to live. But there are a lot of folks who are trying to live the glamorous Instagram Van Life and very often (not always) those folks are totally clueless. They don’t understand that being a good visitor means picking up their trash. Some people can’t cope in a house, let alone in a van. I used to work at a coffee shop and the rich van-lifers would come in and spend $10 and up to 7 hours hogging tables and WIFI and updating their RU-vid channels. It was really bad etiquette. Unfortunately, especially in AZ, I think a lot of those vanlifers are probably living that way because they have to. I’m sorry about the dangerous situation, though, that’s pretty horrible. The main point I disagree with is that I don’t think people generally want to “live like animals.” Some do, sure. If they are working full time and even overtime and can’t put a roof over their heads, what else are they supposed to do?
@@whattheactual4546 They can clean up their trash, they can poop in a bucket not in my yard, the beer cans and cigarette butts they leave in our yards could have been money used for food, gas, taking online classes, washing their clothing, buying trash bags to clean their mess rather than dump it on the streets. Being homeless may not be a choice for them, being filthy is a choice. I found condoms with poop on them in my yard left by van dwellers. I'm glad I didn't see what was going on at night in front of my house. They just tossed the used condoms in my yard where the children play. You are disgusting not finding a lack of decency in that. Just shut up.
That's terrible I've lived out of my truck on and off for years and I always leave places I stay cleaner when I got there. If I stay at a lake for instance and some campers left there campsite tore back with garbage after they leave I'll bust out a trash bag and clean there shit up 🌅❤️
These couple will really apreciate each other more when you go thru hard times with someone it makes you love them even more so I hope they continue to save and the goal is to get a roof over their head.
Go to college ✓ Rack up debt, possibly ✓ Can't get a job ✓ or Get a job, but doesn't pay enough ✓ Prices increasing, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly... ✓ ...don't start thinking about retiring on that Social Security, if you manage to clear the above lower boss levels. Yep, living that good ol' American Life 😂
A, go to city colleges in the trades. B. Don't be stupid about money (like buy a 1,200 iPhone) C, don't have kids you can't support. D make sure there's demand for your major. E, read lawyer sh*t and don't sign for any loans.
@@NoirRobert that's a plan till it doesn't work ,school doesn't guarantee a good paying job. As we are right now 25 an hour job barely pays the bills. Good luck going forward,
@@NoirRobertyour pulling my leg you didn't go to a liberal arts school thinking you were going to make good money , hahaha remember hard work pays off till someone steals it from you. Life is very complicated. If you want to keep what you have worked for don't get married or divorce like me it will drain you and like so many of my friends ,,,, you could end up in jail, truth bro
@@NoirRobert well you gave the house away probably means you are the reason for divorce. So you said some concepts appear foreign to me ??? Well not sure what that means but you'll understand my divorce was handled in a way that I dissolved my assets and I legally kept the money , I had success removing her from a new house and land and walked away,so what other concepts did I not get?
In Australia I found if you go to caravan storage businesses they sometimes have cheap vans .First place I went to I had 5 vans offered to me. Deceased estate -got one for $1100 x19 foot
I have been living in mu 1998 Dodge Ram van 1500 for about 3months now in Reno Nevada and work full time as a warehouse worker! Van life is the ultimate freedom, rent is robbery!
Ive really been thinking of doing this. Busting my butt paying 30 or so percent of my income to a house and the associated costs. We recently paid off a loan we took out to rebuild our barn. Today a storm ripped the roof off the barn. About to give up and go "homeless". It would be cheaper and easier.
There are videos on RU-vid on how and where to park your van or car. If your vehicle stands out like a sore thumb of course you will get noticed by the public. Key to van life is stealth mode. I learned the hard way in California I had no tinted windows parked in the same spot night and day so I had the police knocking on my window alot. It's best to obey some of the parks rules like no over night parking signs.
In Australia it is easy to live in van for free in many places-plenty of farm work available at $20 to $25/hr fruit picking etc. Some shitty tourist towns try to make you go to their paid camping grounds but I just avoid them .I'm 77 had $10,000 was single and on the age pension which doesn't cover the rental cost here unless you are a couple so I sold my car bought a ford transit cab chassis for $700 and put a $1100 caravan on the back of it and towed a $1000 box trailer behind . I set up the electrics using lithium batteries and solar panels for $4000 and all appliances are 240 volts including fridge and freezer . In cloudy times I cook with gas otherwise I use electric.. Instead of struggling on the pension I save money. After three years I saved $30,000 with which I spent $$25 ,000 on a Nissan Narvara and a 19 foot caravan -transferred my solar to the van and sold or gave away all the rest of my gear and would never buy a house again because one reason it would isolate me whereas camping and travelling I meet new people almost daily.
There really isn't much of a choice without affordable housing💜it's a dang shame that money comes before people in our society. WE ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS ON EARTH THAT USE MONEY😒
I found that state parks are a good place to camp. I buy a Nevada state park pass for $60.00 a year and there are some basic parks and most have bathroom w/showers. There's a 14 day maximum but you don't see much enforcement. New Mexico will give you up to 180 day permit for a fee, not sure of cost. I find state parks better than BLM land.
They had to do whatever it took. In this high tech society, Home owners are for couple with professional income only.It is out of reach for average labor working folks/
Our politicians are to blame for all this, they get their cut from developers to build these multi story so called “low income “ housing starting at 5-600,000, that is not low income, so many young and old people would benefit from becoming a home owner even buying a two bedroom condo for 2-300,000. Everything is out of reach
I'm telling you that nomads, van and car dwellers, RV dwellers are the new modern-day pioneers, and I AM ONE! We are tough as nails, salt of the earth folk who can cook off a camp fire and we leave the earth better than we found it. Our vehicles are our covered wagons to our own dreams!!! Judge us all you want but I have a Master's degree in physics! WE ARE THE NEW AMERICA!
High RE prices are creating growth in the nomad world which is logical. I see a future of 2 clearly distinct living modes, attached (to land) and nomadic with nomadic evolving/growing. But truly, the ideal future is Green Co-Housing! GO GEOTHERMAL
I'm 63 and semi retired, I bought a 30ft travel trailer 2 yrs ago and it's paid for. Right after I retired Texas got him by the flood of liberal Californians and real estate went thru the roof, then came the increase in building materials. Every month gas and groceries are increasing and my plans to build a cabin in the country is getting farther out of reach
Good thing you have your 30 ft travel trailer.👍 Maybe that is what will help you survive financially. Plan where to live in it safely. Good for you to think outside the sticks and bricks box! Have a great day!
I just calculated how much renting my serviced patch of gravel for the coming year will be, it stands now at 16K CDN. but still way cheaper than the ridiculous rents here.
They need to stay in one area because they still need to work. I hope I never have to live in my car. These young people are resourceful. It will become difficult with children. A car or small Van won't cut it with kids. Maybe a Tiny House might work for a family with children. Happy they are content with their lifestyle.
5 years my husband and i living in a minivan . all homeless are not on drugs alcohol or other issues we are called the invisible homeless we work but. can't to afford a mortgage or a rent.
