He’s not wrong. It’ll be a really shitty journey as it’s just voluntary homelessness, but you can choose to live as a hobo if you’re brave enough. And if you’re brave enough you can cross borders without permission. Not a good idea at all, lots of walking, hunger, sleeping outside, and hiding from authorities, but hey, you can.
Choosing homelessness when you have any other option isn’t brave, it’s fucking stupid.
“Homeless” can mean different things. It could mean “can’t afford a home, can’t keep a job” like the typical assumption, or it could mean “between homes but capable of getting another” or it could mean “has plenty of money but no home base, just sleeps in hotels or camps and can afford food and clothes when needed”.
It’s not a lifestyle I’d want right now, but it doesn’t automatically mean one can’t thrive. Humans were nomadic for millennia before agriculture gave us a reason and the ability to just stay in one spot.
There are worse options.
Depends on your definition of homelessness. Living in a shitty, broken down van probably counts. But what about living in a $200k Mercedes Sprinter van converted to a camper, with a stable job that lets you work remote? What about a retired couple living in a 40’ RV, after spending their working lives dreaming about traveling around the country?
They weren’t being literal with the homelessness. And anyway, that statement is still a bit close-minded, while it obviously wouldn’t be a comfortable experience, it is possible and not everything needs to be the smartest decision ever. Sometimes challenging yourself to do something extreme with lots of risk keeps you more alive than comfort could.
The line that separates courage and stupidity is always very thin, be it warfare or… Checks notes… TRAVEL
Lots of people walk or bike around the world.
What’s more valuable to you? Having an experience that sounds outlandishly amazing? Or paying rent? We might not all agree.
People do this all the time. Typically it’s people on bikes, crossing something.
$5 a day? Pure luxury!
"SIR YOU DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH COURAGE POINTS TO FLY ON BRAVE AIRLINES, you must go to delta. "
Does Brave Airlines mine Courage Coins without your consent?
But I earned these points flying on Spirit!
GODDAMMIT I just opened this card for the promotional courage points!
Can I pay with mental illnesses?
I’m not out of those, but would gladly transfer them to a financial institution.-
Go out your front door.
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Keep walking.
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Joy.
Isn’t this the plot of LotR?
I think it depends which character you are.
And the Hobbit
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Have the courage to pay in other ways.
Gas, grass, or ass. Nobody rides for free.
NOT MY MR.BEAN COLLECTION!?
My wife got rid of my Mr. Bean VHS collection
With beans?
We’re poor, not stupid. Beans are far too valuable.
Lebron must be the bravest person on Earth.
In the USA all we have to do is tell ICE that we are not a citizen and bam, all-expenses-paid vacation at some random spot in the world.
Tip to the wise: to facilitate re-entry when you are done, simply ensure that your passport is stored securely in your <ahem> “travel wallet”.
Brave of you to assume they wouldn’t accuse you of forging the passport with some twisted logic to keep you out of the country
You wouldn’t be in jail if you weren’t a criminal right?
It’s true, if you get arrested, obviously you do crimes.
No no no, it’s the courage to leave without caring about losing all your worldly possessions 🙃
My worldly possessions are lots of debt
How lucky, you’d have it wherever you go!
A nomadic life can be cheaper than a sedentary one.
What do you do, exactly, to earn money for food/clothes in that lifestyle? That has always puzzled me
Whatever you want to do. Go spend a season helping out ona farm in Hawaii, then go help build an ecovillage in Australia, then spend some time walking around New Zealand washing dishes and bussing tables, then off to India where you’ll build rope bridges and tree houses for a sustainable community. After that, you can go to Thailand or Vietnam and teach English for a little while, before making your way into the Mediterranean and spending a year and a half on the island of Bozcaada helping an old man repair out building and herd goats.
That’s literally what my friend did for over 5 years after one day he just decided to leave and had just enough money for a plane ticket to Hawaii from San Diego. Everything else was work and accommodations he found along the way. The only reason he came back was because of covid, and now he’s an RN and makes a bunch of money and he hates his life and is in and out of rehab.
Try doing that with a passport and the typical access to Education from, say Burkina Faso.
Yeah aside from money, a lot of people forget about passport privilege.
I cant get people to pay me enough to live here, how can i rely on charity/people willing to pay me elsewhere? Literally i have no issue working, I just want to make enough money to survive
People that wander for a living usually live by a combination of charity and payments for odd jobs. For example, a small farmer might gladly part with some old clothes and provide a few meals and a bed in exchange for help with some tasks, and I’ve heard about people with a preternatural ability to couchsurf from city to city.
A lot have taken up being digital nomads. Not a bad way to make a living off you can get good Internet access somehow.
It’s pretty easy to find it within a half days journey in most of the world now, most towns and cities will have public WiFi in some form.
I wish I could live like that, but medication and executive dysfunction makes it impossible. Hopefully in the future.
The internet is in the very air that we breath
breathe*
breath is “taking a breath” or “out of breath”, ends without an e sound (obviously).
Thank you!
And fit into a little RV.
Poor sod seems to lack the courage to sneak into a cargo hold
My brain automatically fill the “courage” dot as with “PIX” instead, i need to hold on buy stuff online
I paid in courage, and now I have a bit of courage left over to remove the headphone jack from all phones.
