thoughts on the 'van life' meme?

I'm a zoomer and I feel like a lot of my peers are really into this stuff. I'm open to the idea, think it would be fun, but probably couldn't do it indefinitely.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It’s for rich kids who can winter at their parents house.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Two tanks of gas and I'm on BLM land the south where it never freezes...

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'd rather freeze than willingly drive to where Black folk live with only a thin van wall to keep their pray and spray away.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          BLM is also bearu of land management. Don't see too many blacks out in the open country but warm border states will be swarming with people walking in from mexico looking for food/water and vans to haul their frens to town

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Don't see too many blacks out in the open country
            Don’t worry anon there are plenty of non-profits and NGOs working to fix that

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Hopefully we can diversity the outdoors just before a flood or a snowstorm.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Hoodlums don't go into the outdoors. They don't like it.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Holy shit you moron

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          kek you cant even say BLM in relation to the bureau of land management... spergs instantly assume you're surrounded by kangs in an urbanite area

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Jokes on you , I winter in mexico

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This, "van life" is cool if you have a van converted to a small RV that you can travel in for part of the year. Living completely full time in a van sounds awful. Like if you lived in a van 24/7, even something as routine as mail delivery becomes a serious problem. You need a PO Box set up, and then need a mail service to forward you important mail at whatever campground you are at or whatever, and that's one of the smaller issues.

      Not having a bathroom and shower on board is a problem as well, imagine waking up in the night to shit or piss and you have to leave your home.

      If I was making passive income, and only had to do like 5 hours of work from a laptop each week, then yeah it'd be cool to do Van Life for a couple months in the summer while seeing national parks or traveling for concerts or whatever. But otherwise it seems like it would suck. Plus in modern America, you have to contend with homeless drug addicts in many of the parking lots and places where you'll sleep overnight. It's not as comfy as it seems

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why wouldn't you just get a bucket with a toilet seat on it, a few packs of wet wipes, and keep an empty wide mouth gallon jug for piss? I can cleanly take a shit in a Subaru

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Why wouldn't you just get a bucket with a toilet seat on it, a few packs of wet wipes, and keep an empty wide mouth gallon jug for piss?

          because it's fricking disgusting. Having a bucket with shit in it, in a small space, is just gross. It's going to smell, you won't make it totally smell proof. At least in a motorhome or large RV there's a plumbing system and you can flush it to a smellproof tank. A bucket is just gross period

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >I can cleanly take a shit in a Subaru

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Not my Subaru but you know when you're in Seattle and suddenly you need to shit so you notice an unlocked Subaru with liberal bumper stickers on it like god called you to shit in that car. And then you feel fricking amazing and marvel at the pile of shit in that car

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          the water in a toilet serves to stop most of the smell from fouling up the place. a bucket wont have that and the interior of a van WILL absorb the odours it'll be like an indian's house where the walls have a curry smell that can't be removed, except instead of curry, it's just straight up shit.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            what frick is your problem?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Calm down pajeet, you don't want to spend your day off scamming old ladies being angry on DA.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            the curry smell permeating from the walls that i cant remove, duh.

            >Water makes shit less stinky
            Lol wtf? Covid must of hit you hard. Camper bathrooms stink terribly. When I shit into a dogshit bag from the dispenser at the park and tie it off, there is no smell outside of the bag. Just put it on the sidewalk and karen will dispose of it for you

            have you ever had a shit where a bit of it was poking above the water? Notice how the stink is greatly reduced when you flush a bit so the shit moves under the water line?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Water makes shit less stinky
            Lol wtf? Covid must of hit you hard. Camper bathrooms stink terribly. When I shit into a dogshit bag from the dispenser at the park and tie it off, there is no smell outside of the bag. Just put it on the sidewalk and karen will dispose of it for you

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            also i dont understand how camper bathrooms have anything to do with water acting as a barrier for odours. Or dog bags doing the same thing...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Payed $900 for my shitbox. All service and repair done. Installed bed, gas kitchen, instrument and bench. 35mpg. Frick you israelite.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've always wondered what happens when they have to do maintenance or repairs, do they just camp outside the mechanics shop or rent a hotel room nearby or something?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Such a life style couldn't be possible with out doing the wrenching your self for any thing short of needing a troony jack or engine lift.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      my first vanlife trip the van had to go in for repair for a day or two and ended up in there for a week... during a monsoon... we stayed on a mattress on pallets under a tarp with a pirate and a stripper. the floor was made of seashells and flooded and it was beautiful aside from all the bugs crawling onto the matttress... great experience that road trip was, changed my life, i still like to hop in my truck and go on months long trips.
      ...$700 van

      most compitent/frugal van lifers figure out how to work on their own vehicles

      Just drive an economy car to a motel. They are cheaper, better handling and faster. The motel is more comfy, get a nice pool and gym to play in and breakfast in the morning,and you don't have to drive a big stupid van

      car + hotel + eating out= $160/day
      vanlife+cooking gear = $30/day

      Van life sucks. Save up, by remote lake property, even if it's in another country. Build a small cabin and enjoy true peace away from everyone. If I didn't have to work I'd never leave my property.

      vanlife allows you to quickly go from enjoying nature to the hustle and bustle of the city, to other types of nature !!!with better weather!!! to other types of cities with less or more hustle and bustle.

      Motels are way more comfortable. Spend $ 80 Sleep under clean sheets and take a hot shower instead of waking up dirty in a van abd smelling stinky all day

      some people value comfort less than others and are happy with stinky vanlife... anyways, if you stay in a nice cool climate, you dont really begin to stink for a while....

      >vanlife is for richkids
      its also for poor kids who cant find a decent job in an expensive rent city but still want to have fun money.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the floor was made of seashells and flooded and it was beautiful aside from all the bugs crawling onto the matttress
        You have schizophrenia, or a potentially more severe mental disorder.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        God, I don't know what's more sad. The fact that you have such a sad and pathetic life or the fact that you're in such deep cope that you think your life is fine

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          aye, as long as im happy, right? ive worked maybe 50 days this entire year! lots of time for my hobbies... only shitty part about vanlife is you cant really store materials and build big projects. my bedroom is the size of small schoolbus but i have a pretty big yard.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Bums stink more in cool climates. Too cold out so they deficate near their camp. Their skin rots a bit, their hair fills with filth, etc.

        If its hot, they will at least splash in the fountain or maybe dunk in a river
        and piss away from their tents

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Bums stink more in cool climates.
          west coast and your never really more than an hour drive away from a from a fresh clean water source to bathe in... when i hit the east coast i can always just get a $20/mo gym membership if i dont wanna bother sourcing free showers.... ive been travelling long enough, though, that i pretty much have friends/shower in any city i go to.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You don't need a van. Just get any car and get a Walmart tent

        >$30 a day
        The frick bro. On what?

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just drive an economy car to a motel. They are cheaper, better handling and faster. The motel is more comfy, get a nice pool and gym to play in and breakfast in the morning,and you don't have to drive a big stupid van

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Those overland sprinter van a fricking ridiculously expensive I believe they are 100k+ for a fricking van. s8d4j

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yeah they are. I've seen most go for around 50k-70k but there are certainly more expensive ones out there

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Motels are way more comfortable. Spend $ 80 Sleep under clean sheets and take a hot shower instead of waking up dirty in a van abd smelling stinky all day

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Those overland sprinter van a fricking ridiculously expensive I believe they are 100k+ for a fricking van. s8d4j

        >100k+ for a fricking van
        I could but two model 3 Teslas for that

        That’s with all the custom bullshit. A barebones new is like $60k but then you have to do all the electrical and framing and stuff on the interior to make it cozy

        >A barebones new is like $60k
        I could but a model 3 Tesla with FAD for that

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That’s with all the custom bullshit. A barebones new is like $60k but then you have to do all the electrical and framing and stuff on the interior to make it cozy

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I know you can do that if you are cheaper but there are people who are paying 200k for a fricking merc van. 200k for a shitty merc van with a terrible diesel v6

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I can drive a nice car to some nice hotels and spend some time doing cool stuff for that kind of money

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You could just fricking but a brand new premium one ton dually and but a truck camper for less, and when you get done camping just take off camper and you still have a good vehicle.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Unreal. I didn't realize those vans were so expensive.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            https://expeditionmeister.com/unimog-mercedes/other-unimog-models/unimog-u300-expedition-camper-i287

            this is 282 000 usd

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            https://www.motorbiscuit.com/1-mil-mercedes-unimog-camper-mansion-wheels/

            one lame mill, i have only seen 80+ year olds driving them here in scandinavia, they are all from netherlands and germany

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            of all places i would never have expected this van to be in Chełmno
            i visit that town at least once per month

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          who has the money to buy one of these and not a house?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It's not about cost, they're rich kids doing it for the "lifestyle"

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Kinda wierd lifestyle

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Holy moley, my neighbor has one of those, it cost *that* much?!

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          haha I'd have that paid of in 9 months
          >save 3k/mo in mortgage & home ins
          >save $200/mo in electricity
          >no mowing of lawns ever again
          >hurricane comin? not my problem cuz I'm already 3 states over
          >put $1k/mo in maintenance account just in case
          >BBQ steaks & misc seafood 3 times/week in different locations with gorgeous scenery
          >real work only 24hrs/week
          >go see the family when on whatever coast some of them live on.
          I worked on diesel engines in the military and all manner of gas engines as a kid. I can replace a troony with a jack on the side of the road if need be.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Van life sucks. Save up, by remote lake property, even if it's in another country. Build a small cabin and enjoy true peace away from everyone. If I didn't have to work I'd never leave my property.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I let myself to slide through the van life rabbit hole during some stressful times. Researching it helped me escape reality. My conclusion was it can be cool to run away some weekends or maybe a month or two max. Basic stuff becomes cumbersome: shower, cooking, peeing, shitting, avoiding cops if stealth camping, relationships, repairs, accidents, spend a lot preparing the van, steals, electricity, water... You can see videos of van lifers crumbling down, getting to a motel. "I needed it." It's like they rediscover the wheel or something. A regular home is just better.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's doable but not how you think. It's just an expensive inconvenient vacation

    Anyone with a nice looking van isn't saving any money on living costs. You have to build the interior yourself, use family money, or have an uncommon job. My friend did it a budget way and it got old for him quick. One van blew a troony, the other broke down constantly, now he has a smaller version of the first that's great, but cost like 5x more than the others.

    Here is a guy who did it full time. Keep in mind he had an end goal and a cushy firefighter facilities for his work periods
    https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHomelessFirefighter

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Anyone with a nice looking van isn't saving any money on living costs.
      Yeah, this. People think vans are cheap but one that's actually fitted in a way that won't make you hate your life costs as much as a house in rural flyover country, and I'd much rather have the latter.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i get up at 4 am, just to drive around all the spots and honk my horn where they are parked

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      For me its putting a gallon of 2 stroke oil in my tank and driving around the hobo camps with the car that they stole the catalytic converter from and revving, backfiring and smogging them out.

  9. 2 years ago
    Greased Geese

    i keep seeing these van threads and I usually never reply to them cause theyre always gay but here's some frickin shit I've seen
    I saw a Black person on marketplace who baught a god damn horse trailer, boarded it up and insulated it and was living in the damn thing.
    I know that that's fricking moronic but think about it, you can buy a horse trailer for somewhere between 700-1200 dollars and theyre made of god damn steel usually.
    I don't know if it's actually a good idea in a pinch or if he's just moronic.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Horse trailers/livestock trailers aren’t that cheap usually if you are getting one for under 2 grand you are gonna have a lot do work ahead of you . Plus they have very rudimentary suspension if they have them at all anything you put back there has to be incredibly strong so it doesn’t break in half from the vibration.

      • 2 years ago
        Greased Geese

        well there's always the chance that you'll find one under 1k that can limp around, I'm not saying that it's a 100% foolproof plan, im just saying that if you dont have a stack of cash thick enough to kill a wasp it might be an option

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      My brother did a version of that. Its shitty. But its also solid.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Where do you plan on parking something like that?

      • 2 years ago
        Greased Geese

        hows it any worse than living in a van, living in parking lots like these gays wanna do

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          A van blends in a lot more than a fricking converted horse trailer. Also parking lot security is getting a lot more strict thanks to the homosexual ass vanlyfers.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Understandable option if you want to get away from city and dont have enough money for good house at rural areas.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just read how compost toilets work. Gross.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >well I can't afford a $20k down payment for a house
    >better buy a $50k van instead

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it is a youtuber reddit meme. most are trustfundgays larping as homeless. you shit in plastic bags or public toilets. you shower in a gym. it is ok if you are vacationing or whatever, but anything permanent, it gets old really fricking quickly. also everyone and their mother knows that someone lives in there so there is no such thing as "stealth". i live in an affluent coastal town so we have to deal with these cases a lot. you are basically a wealthy hobo, and you WILL get your shit pushed in i guarantee it. t. cop

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Frick wish I had the money to frick around like that.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm 6'2 and RV life seems like hell, I like Japanese RVs meant for sub 5'9 people too. It would be a matter of time before I would be hostile to every living being I would encounter.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      as a tallgay who tried living in an rv for a couple weeks, it is complete hell. I can't imagine what it would be like to live in a van
      >6'4

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the absolute state of millennials and zoomers

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >last spring
    >have to go to Phoenix and do a bunch of sales visits
    >work truck has a camper shell, just a regular old Tundra, old, white, real bland, attracts no attention
    >get to Phx
    >holy shit all the hotels are at least 200/night
    >the frick, this sales trip is going to cost me at least a thousand dollars
    >idea
    >go to Walmart, spend about 250 on camping gear
    >air mattress, pillow, bedsheets, water, snacks
    >set up truck bed for overnighting
    >enjoy
    >spent $75 on showers at the truck stop that week plus the 250 in gear but that's all reuseable

    Learned a few things that week. The most important part is finding a level parking space in a quiet area and keeping a low profile. Also, shower before the dinnertime rush otherwise you'll be waiting in the truck stop for hours.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Are proper camping grounds nonexisting in the US or are they fricking expensive, as I always see people talking about spending nights at the Walmart and such?
    Wouldn´t buying an old but decent RV or camper trailer and spending your nights at a camping ground be easier and cheaper than buying and converting a van and then spending nights at super market parking lots?
    At least here, in Finland, people who can´t afford a holiday cabin, get an RV or a trailer and a spot at their favorite camping grounds and use that set up. When they get bored of the same spot, they move to next one. At a camping ground near me a spot for your RV is 450€/year and they have all the regular stuff there(shower+sauna, waste disposal, electricity, laundry, gas bottle swap, fireplace and so on).

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      campground $25+ per night to stay in a parkinglot surrounded by trees. or walmart parking lot surrounded bushes

      ... i cant find a pic but many many camp grounds are just a bunch of tent spaces + parking spot all within 15-25feet from the next tent space + parking spot....

      and often walmart is in the middle of town while campground is 20min or an hour out of town....

      and then if im going to nature, ill go to free BLM land or fire access road campsites instead of some $40 camp ground with a fricking ranger/nanny watching over you. i like getting naked and shitting in a hole i dug.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Civilization is plumbing and sanitation. Two things that are very difficult to setup in a van.

      Aside from that, people are too used to having a bunch of space. Especially the need for standing height. Go outside, plan to occupy a spot outside your vehicle to do things.
      >But the rain and snow!
      Awnings. And why are you vancamping if you hate the elements?
      >But the Black folk and cops and bums outside!
      Why vanlife in the fricking city?
      >I have to stand to shower!
      There are other better ways to bathe. Especially if you're out in the fricking middle of nowhere with a slim chance of being bothered
      >I'm at the RV park!
      Then they should have facilities shouldn't they?

      We have RV parks and campgrounds that will provide hookups and maybe have some public facilities. Otherwise it's just endless wilderness on federal lands. I'm assuming most van dwellers are trying to reach such spots.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Why vanlife in the fricking city?
        becuase i like visiting lots of different cities. ill usually set up homebase at the local skatepark and make local friends from there.

        desu, being able to stand up in your home is worth a few thousand dollars.

        Payed $900 for my shitbox. All service and repair done. Installed bed, gas kitchen, instrument and bench. 35mpg. Frick you israelite.

        >35mpg.
        WHAT VEHICLE?
        im getting 25mpg right now, but i wanna step it up... i prefer laying down lots of miles over the comfort of more space

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          They make this Prius -rv conversion. Actually looks really gomfy

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >it's real

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Well maintained 80s vw diesel with neato overdimensioned rims. Just avoid any sort of hillclimbing.
          Also seeth amerigay

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Still costs less to hoon the v8 powered pickup and keep my 3 bed house warm in winter. seethe harder europoor.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yearly living cost, 3 houses; $20000.
            Yearly vechicle cost, 6 cars; $3500.
            Producing my own livestock and food.
            Questions?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Campgrounds are all over the place. They're just not obscure and trendy enough for vanlife homosexuals. Granted, RVs, even cheap pop-up campers, are hella pricey on their own, but that's what tents are for.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Zoomer here. I think van life and small houses are dumb. I have a millennial sister who’s bf works at a fricking Food4Less, lives in his van, have to park in an area to sleep near the bay without getting in trouble, can’t bathe until they crash at our house for a few days every week, have to use the bathroom at a fricking restaurant or store (if it’s late at night idk what they fricking do), it’s cramped, boring, I don’t know why gen y and z would want to do this.

    I get that it’s getting pricier and pricier to get a house or apartment and having a minimum wage job barely does shit if at all, but I can’t see myself doing something like that, I’d rather live in the shittiest one room apartment in a shitty part of town than living in a small vehicle or being homeless on the streets. Feels good being special needs and having a few more years to get independent and have support from regional center programs that help with special needs people.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And buy small houses I mean those very fricking tiny trendy houses you can’t fit your head in built in the middle of nowhere. Remember those? 2015 there was some HGTV show highlighting those, I’m tall, it’d be cramped and claustrophobic as frick for my anxiety.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >cries cus hes too fat and dumb to cope with peoples lifechoices.
      Seethe.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    VAN LIFE IS A COMMUNIST PSYOP TO GET THE MASSES FROM OWNING PROPERTY

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What if you
      >buy van
      >live in van
      >save money
      >buy property
      >live in van on property while you're building a shack
      Now that sounds based to me

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        someone finally typed down my idea, like you pulled it out of my mind

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      commies are against people driving gasoline cars dude

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I got into it simply because I wanted to travel the country for cheap while I think about where I'd like to settle

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