Am I stupid or not?
Whenever I travel mostly France, Germany or the Netherlands I don't get any hotels (unless it's raining) but I just sleep amongst the homeless around or in the main train station.
For this I wear an older jacket and pants so I blend in and when one bothers me I just give them a sigarete.
According to my friends this is super stupid, dumb and dangerous but I don't see the problem.
Also tips for being voluntarily homeless?
Sounds like a massive pain in the ass when you can just get a bed in some cheap hostel for 20 euros a night.
>cheap hostel for 20 euros a night.
20 euros can buy you food for a couple of day and that is without cooking, only cheap, pre cooked shit from supermarkets.
sure has hell wouldn't do that in the states, but don't see why europe would be much of a problem.
friend of mine traveled to the UK, Germany, and France doing exactly the same thing. Didn't have any issues apart from freezing his ass off in the middle of winter.
only tip i'm aware of is to lurk around bakeries near closing time. they often put out bread, pasteries etc that haven't sold during the day for the homeless.
I go to McDonald's and take the leftover fries
20 bucks is still 20 bucks that I could spend on something else. It's also because it's fun.
Correction, it's fun until something goes wrong. You're at the mercy of others. Where I used to live, it wasn't uncommon for 4 or 5 violent tweakers to travel as a group and pick people off. Usually they'd grope some sailor's girlfriend and bait him down an alley where the rest were waiting.
At stations in Europe there's ton of police. When the station is too bad I walk to a park on the outskirts of the city and sleep on a bench out of sight. But this is yet again sometime you probably can't do in the Us
>leftover fries
they throw them out bud . larp confirmed
protip:when its cold, sleep behind a 24hr laundromat. the dryer vents blow warm air and you'll smell like a fresh load of laundery
What advantages is there to lurking near potentially dangerous hobos and sleeping in busy urban areas vs stealth camping alone on the outskirts of town?
I'd much rather and have slept in the woods behind a rural church, in a patch of trees between farm fields, or set up illegally in some national park etc
I have a lot of friends throughout mainly Germany and they live in or around the big cities. I already have to pay for the train I don't want to lay for a hotel as well
Is this bot posting? Did you read my post?
I did read it and you're just being a fricking loser and cheapskate. You know why I don't worry about having to pay for hotels and food? I'm not poor because I work and make good money.
OP talks about sleeping amongst hobo camps while traveling. I possit that sleeping in the same manner but outside of town is a safer and smarter option.
You either say
>I don't want to pay for a hotel
Or
>I'm being cheap
Neither of which make sense in response to what I said. Now you call me names and brag about having a job like that's special? I assume you're ESL and moronic. Don't worry I also have a good job but unlike you I also have basic reading comprehension. homosexual.
Being a cheap frick
Become a Friar, tell everyone you've taken an oath of poverty.
>Am I stupid or not?
You are. But you'd still be stupid if you stopped doing this, so you might as well keep doing it.
everyone thinks being homeless is great until it's not
Living in a tent a few months. I imagine you could afford a cheap 2 man from a store and give it to a bum when your done. A shitty lock on the inside provides atleast some time before they cut it open. I can see it being a problem depending if they decided to Rob you or not.
I think it's pretty good so far
I sneak inside random office buildings for the night, easily done if you dress smart.
Dress formally or casually?
And has anyone ever asked what you were doing there?
Good way to get robbed, mugged, or murdered.
If I die then I won't care about being dead anyways. I don't have anything of value with me usually except for a bit of money under my shoe soles.
But until now the homeless people have always been friendly and if one is a bit pushy I just give him a sigarete
how long have you been doing this?
homeless in america are a different breed. you would have been stabbed for crack or raped by now.
america has no public transport and i'm short. i can sleep diagonally in the back of my 4x4 with my camping gear. i gutted the interior and insulated it a while ago for winter camping. its cramped and tiny and i have to cook outside but it gets the job done. i only get hotels on my cross country road trips if i want to for the entertainment value ala dan bell's "another dirty room."
Been doing it for the past 4 years and mostly in the summer. Never for more then a week though so I don't eat very often if anything.
As for sleeping I can very easily sleep sitting or sometimes laying in the grass in a park.
But yeah the homeless in Europe are definitely different. Some are kinda weird and will just start screaming at night for no reason but that doesn't wake me up that often
I'd probably make 20 euros and stay in a hostel and get between some French girls legs.
Europe is full of Black person hustlers now, the local drunks are one thing but these north African migrants will kill you in your sleep
Funny story about that.
I stayed at an hostel in Berlin and they do try to put women together at least a little bit in the rooms and my name is very feminit in German so they put me in a room with 6 french girls. I stayed there only for one day but when I woke up in the middle of the night there was just french ass all around me.
Way too much of a pussy yo talk to any of them. Been all around Europe but I've never talked to someone outside of homeless people
You fricken sperg.
Why would you sleep on the open street when you can stealthcamp in a park or some abandoned building? There is also sneaking into hotels and other random buildings, i've done it before just act casual.
Good tip for free breakfast is going to a hotel and just walking into the breakfast buffet1
If you're in Germany there's woods right outside every city, go sleep in the woods instead it's much more fun and you won't get bothered by homeless
Nah I'm in the Netherlands in one of the big cities
People leave their trays all the time
>According to my friends this is super stupid, dumb and dangerous but I don't see the problem.
idk about Europe but where i come from you're highly liable to get stabbed by a tweaker or have your face smashed in by a drunk or the cops