To live in my car/camp full time??

[NevilleLuna]

28 and live in a shit area surrounded by drug users, alcoholics and the unemployed. I’m by no means judging but I just don’t fit in here at all and I begrudge spending a fortune in rent for somewhere I hate.

I’m actually debating living in my car/camping full time.

Slept in my car many times before and while it is small- it would be comfortable with bedding. I’d find safe areas to park up that wouldn’t cause nuisance for anyone else.

I’d cook my meals at work, charge phones/tablets at work. Shower when I go to the gym and do my laundry when I visit my parents every weekend.

I’d do it for a year or two which means I can save enough money for a house deposit

AIBU?

Sounds like an utterly miserable experience. Can you move home with parents for six months or flat share to keep costs down?

Would you be able to move to a different area that you prefer instead?

Wouldn't it be a problem to be person of no fixed address?

Have you looked at living in other areas?

It'd be grim but doable now - in November it wouldn't. What about a cheap house share (assuming you don't already) enabling you to save, but not as quickly?

How would you pee in the middle of the night? Or make a late night hot drink?

What job do you do that you can cook meals at work?

It would grind me down in about two weeks.

Caravan park?

I don’t think living in your car FT is a great plan. Far too risky - there are limited ‘safe places’ where you won’t eventually draw attention of one sort or another.

Do it in a van a car is too cramped. Check out the Indie Projects on YouTube, loads of people showing their self built homes on wheels.

What if you lose your job?

What if your car breaks down or gets written off?

I think it’s doable as long as you have a decent van type vehicle to begin with. Not sure I’d be able to deal with it especially in the winter. An old friend of mine travelled around New Zealand and Australia whilst living in a car.

graziadaily.co.uk/life/real-life/meet-young-women-beating-housing-crisis-living-van/

No. That sounds like an awful way to live.

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to a face pressed up against your window.
You could end up with hyperthermia in the winter.

I have done this.

My advice is do what you have to do to get away from the shit area, but never bank on being able to sleep in your car the next night, let alone 2 years.

Definitely could do it in a van but make sure you stay in safe areas.

It's not going to be safe is it, you could get disciplined at work for charging your mobiles. Do your parents know you are in this position, you would be making yourself homeless which can cause all sorts of issues. Could you afford to rent a roomshare somewhere or move In with your parents. What sort of work do you have.

What if it gets broken in to or stolen?
You’d be very vulnerable.

A car would be shite but yes totally doable in a van. Doesn’t even need to be a particularly big van. Join the group self build campervans on fb for ideas.

And a lot of campsites do cheap rates for people living there long term - I know of one which a few of my mates have lived at which was £30 a week in the winter. Then you’d have access to showers, washing up facilities etc.

May very well be workable depending on your job.

infact depending on your line of work it could be advantageous if you spend lots of time on the road or cover lots of sites, whilst opening up options for extra work.

If you're sleeping in your car what would you do for a toilet? And you'd still need an address - would that be your parents' house?

rent on a caravan park?

or tent

Go home to your parents .

YANBU. I'd research it. Use your parents' address for a fixed abode.

Haven't you done this thread before?