I became homeless when I was 13 and my parents died (didn't want to cope in foster care), so I started hopping trains. From 13 to 18 I travelled, sometimes by highways too. Took work anywhere, mostly farms and general labor. Living in campers on my boss' property (common in remote work sites), or just a campsite in the woods nearby. I spent so much time this way that I prefer eating food out of cans or cooked on a fire, even today. I like raw eggs and lightly cooked things, usually burn the shit out of meats and throw veggies (especially onions) on top at the last minute so they're still crunchy and the flavor is strongest.
Since 2020 I've realized that people don't just "prefer" to waste tons of money on small amounts of processed food, pre-prepared, restaurant slop -- they don't know how to survive any other way. They're fucking confused by the idea of simple food. They can't really cook anything from scratch. Even when they "cook" they throw together mostly prepared good from packages. They think boiling pasta is cooking, they have no idea how to make pasta. They never baked bread, or processed their meat after killing it. Not even a chicken from a coup out back, nothing.
I saw a video here about "mouse utopia" once. This is a perfect way to understand what you're seeing in the world now. People are so removed from life conditions they were designed for that they're in a "die phase" of behavior. Something in them is self-destructing, and they have no idea why. The reasons why can only be seen if they remove themselves from the environment, so their priorities change. If you want to change the course of society, you're wasting time on anything else besides how to disrupt what's causing the "die phase".
Yeah, people have become helpless. It's seen as low-status to make your own food instead of throwing money at a wagie to make it and deliver it for you. For some reason being dependent on gigantic, faceless institutions is seen as "progress" rather than subjugation. At the rate things are going it's hobos - people who are used to roughing it - will be in a better position to survive than your average normalfaggot.
Leo Cruz
If it's true...
What a life... I am fascinated
Logan Nguyen
Very apt observation, I believe less than 10% of the total population could survive a collapse of the grid event, no debit / credit cards, no bank, no walmart, if it's a fend for yourself kind of situation, only farmers and amish got a real chance lol.
Samuel Flores
Hello, do you have any tips/tricks/anecdotes or infographics or videos on how one survives years homeless? How did you shower? Wash clothes? How did you hunt? Did you use a tent or hammock? How did you deal with the cold? How did you get those farm or general labor jobs, did you just walk onto farms and ask if they needed help? Even just some exciting or scary stories from your time adventuring would be sweet. Thanks
Christian Bennett
Just go sleep in the park once or twice a week, then walk to walmart, buy the cheapest produce, and cook it across the street. Watch the trains while you eat. Imagine doing that every day for a few years. Not as fascinating as it seems loi
Hudson Reyes
I drive trucks and save all of my money, but want to live like this or on owned land growing some food when I'm not. Basically I idolize the independence of the hobos and want to suck your dick (metaphorically) for a bit. I've been camping before and also practiced no cook meals so in some ways I could probably be more rugged than you. Anyway more tips would be appreciated. I already have baby mama's so that's all good for me and I don't pay for shit. Nor would I ever.
Matthew Russell
it is not even over-dramatic to say this is the end-times. i have been a hobo for about 3 years too but it is easy in germany. but since then preparing for the worst case became standart so i am actually having quite a good time this year lol
>I drive trucks Then your life isn't that different, you just have a radio and heater build into your kit m8
Logan Jackson
It's called living by 'abstraction' (some form of convenience) and it's facilitated by the exchange of tokens called money. It's always been that way. Who clothed the early man? Wait, don't answer that.
Noah Parker
Yeah, your experience of life as a traveller changes dramatically depending on where are. Some stick to cities, I stuck to the coast and farmland. West coast cities are a demon infested hellscape, got out of there quick.
Lucas Hughes
i stuck to the rhine or the sieg river. cities are bad for your mental health espacially when homeless. just go there for supplies
Blake Morales
Can't be true, Trump told me America is the richest nation on Earth.....repeatedly.
Jason Moore
hey i lived this way too, 15-18, similar reason. i really hate how people (usually city-oids) romanticize being homeless. It fucking sucks and it's super boring. I also hate how people think they can experience homelessness by just sleeping outside.
Lincoln Bell
How do you guys get in and out of the cities though? What do you carry stuff in? How far do you ruck with it?
Gabriel Martin
I would keep phones and solar chargers. Literally just on the internet at home anyway. Do you guys carry weapons? Which ones?
Henry Long
>Hello, do you have any tips/tricks/anecdotes or infographics or videos on how one survives years homeless? Yes, I'll see what I can find. It's been years since I lived that way, but I still spend weeks in the woods during hunting season. >How did you shower? Wash clothes? Silcock keys and park facilities, depending on rural or urban. There's water everywhere, just try not to be a pest and look for public source. Don't stalk people's water on private land like a faggot. A friend used to make evaporation stills out of stainless bottles and copper HVAC tubes. Just hang one over a fire with a cup to stick the other end in, fresh condensated water for drinking and cleaning. >How did you hunt? Same way normal people do. I learned to hunt from a co-worker. When you live on a jobsite you do stuff like that on your days off.
>How do you guys get in and out of the cities though? Trains usually go downtown, or close enough that you can walk to a bus line.
Logan Nelson
i had secret stashes for stuff and i always stayed as mobile as possible carrying all important stuff in a big backpack, using a bike etc.
Luke Johnson
Yeah its not that different than living in "the bad part of town", it's just you carry stuff everywhere and have different sources of food every week.
This. Learning to stash and cache is something I still do. I've gone back to some cities I visited, walked around, and found old hiding spots with my stuff still in it before. Years later.
Camden Martinez
You're just a hobo not a hunter or a farmer, not sure why you're acting like some survival expert. If society collapse you also die, your lightly cooked crap doesn't fall from the sky.
James Peterson
what about payment ? Buses and trains aren't free you know.
Sebastian Perez
I was going to build a shelter like such either Inna woods or on owned land Inna woods.
>less than 10% of the total population could survive a collapse of the grid event, no debit / credit cards, no bank, no walmart I truly believe most people COULD, but they won't realize it. They'll die because they can't pull their minds out of modern living. Everyone has instincts and common sense if they just stop standing in the way of it and let it work.
water was really a problem since you cant drink from our rivers so that would always be a lot to carry but i got one of these hiking filters that helped a lot.
Camden Nelson
He worked.
Grayson Reyes
Did you try iodine?
Isaiah Murphy
like i fucking cared lol
Kevin Rivera
Gotta get me one of those keys. So you were homeless with guns? Or did you focus on traps and snares, maybe bow hunting?
Camden Baker
Just being a traveller doesn't mean you don't ever use money. In fact, I learned how to use ebay flipping stuff I found (or was given) doing work like demolition or helping people move. Craigslist has a free section. If you have any skill repairing old stuff, you can make a lot. I wasn't like someone who just had money for drugs and I wasn't into burglary. I'd work until I had enough, then travel to the next destination. Usually sell my gear and pick up new gear, rinse repeat the process.
Joshua Rogers
actually yes i had a few of these pills we get at the army here for cleaning water lol. tastes like swimming pool water
Henry Gomez
Whend you stop being homeless?
Ethan Jenkins
Like he cares. Where are they going to send the fine to? And in Germany especially they are fucking autistic about your living address. You cant get anything without it.
Adam Long
>So you were homeless with guns? I worked on a farm with 10 other seasonal workers. One of them lived in a camper, driving from farm to farm as needed. He had guns, freezer, toolbox, gaming PC lol
Wyatt Evans
shit years ago, maybe 15 or so. I work and have a home now.
Camden Johnson
I just don't want a home. I want a area to live but I don't want a home or a car.
Asher Myers
Yeah, I often think about living out of a van. The way things or going I might, no idea. If there's no gas, your van is going to become a shack wherever it breaks down. Should plan for that.
Isaac Ross
I once had a friend who tried to get a free ride in a bus and a fucking 2 meter tall dickhead kicked him out cause he 'forgot' his ticket and gave him 50£ fine. You must be really lucky to never get caught or really fast with all that crap carrying around.
Henry Perry
>people should make pasta and bread from scratch >eats everything from a can eh... okay
Henry Green
yes i didnt even get gibz because i had no adress. once you have no adress here you are utterly fucked. i never begged or steal i gathered bottles etc, went fishing. sometimes you just find stuff like phones wallets and whatnotelse.
Cameron Evans
Nah man I was just gonna make a metal rooved lean to in dakota for the summer and work in the winter. Grow food in the summer. Was gonna have an escooter and take busses and get picked up by family if I visit. I have okay relationships with extended family.
Anthony Price
He has skills and experience in living a life with little and learned how to utilize the most around himself; I would say he fairs much better then those who haven't gone through that, if we were all put into a situation where we were no longer able to live in our current modern way. Sure, he's not on a farm, but realistically, how feasible is a modern farm if overnight they no longer had outside inputs like gas, electricity, municipal water, fertilizers, heck most can't even use last seasons seed to start a new crop because large scale farming with non-gmo is almost impossible.
Angel Ward
it is super easy in germany and they dont really do anything. you get a ticket/fine and can stay in the train. of course you will never pay it but well
Dominic Butler
Be creative enough, have the time for it, you can make it work. Just think about equipment like that scooter breaking down, and whether you plan to rely on it. in my experience, the fewer things you have in general the better. Things that break down become the center of your world, they need upkeep.
