Living in a van

Does anyone on PrepHole live in a van? Has anyone on PrepHole ever lived in their vehicle? What are your thoughts on this lifestyle? I'm really considering giving it a shot. I'm fortunate enough to work entirely online so all I'd need to figure out is how to get a consistent and reliable internet connection.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yea I live in a van, bang hot babes and make bank trading crypto. Living the dream!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Liar

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No u liar

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I own a vw van like one in OP, the problem is I don't have a remote job so its only a temporary getaway vehicle. If you can get starlink, solar and enough battery to stay offgrid for 5 days at a time with a remote job you are way better off. Vanlife within most cities limits is just constant stress of finding a decent spot to overnight, worrying about tweakers looting your van, and finding a place to shit in the morning. You can avoid all this if you stay in rural areas where noone gives a shit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I never lived in it, but I had a VW bus. High top, a dinnete that transformed into a decent size bed and another small bed on the hightop. No plumbig or anything, just a coleman stove and a cooler. It was great for weekend trips. Longest I spent on it was maybe two weeks.

      Living in a van is MASSIVE upgrade vs being straight up homeless i.e. living in a tent or under a bridge, but Im pretty sure taking showers at the gym and shitting on gas stations gets old fast. Dont fall for instagram memes anon. And dont buy a vw bus, those are old af and its getting hard to keep them running. Buy a modern second hand van, an econoline or something and trick it out for trips with your girlfriend.

      > Vanlife within most cities limits is just constant stress
      Listen to this guy, he is 100% right.

      I live in California and made a library card to borrow a free hotspot.

      >I live in California
      Im sorry anon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      TRUTH

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If you must go into the city, do it only long enough to do what you need to do, and get out. Do not stay in a city overnight unless absolutely necessary.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah I lived out a van for a while. Drove from Vancouver down to Santa Barbara over the course of a few months while waiting for my work visa to go through. Good fun, character building, feels good not cucking to landlords but ultimately it’s a bit of a pain in the ass not having running water and mains electricity.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    In a couple years there will be a shitload of used vans for sale when companies start upgrading their fleets.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There will be a shortage of used vehicles for a decade

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why is that?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          A few hundred thousand cars didn't get built because of the chip shortages. A lot of commercial vehicle fleets aren't going to upgrade because of lockdowns (no one working = cars aren't wearing out) and the recession.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Pair that with all these moronic market forces for electric which is going to frick the used car market when people realize the car dies after 4 years due to battery degradation

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          On top of the other reasons already mentioned, "Cash for Clunkers" happened, and a lot of cars that were still in very serviceable or easily repairable shape got turned in because "lol free government cash". Over 677,000 cars got scrapped, and the government blew $3 billion of your tax dollars out of its ass.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why is that?

        Not him but I expect it's true, here after 2000 they introduced new laws requiring crumple zones for safety
        Except in a minor crash the car "crumples" to protect the occupants and writes off the car
        Whereas an older car just firms it

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    another homeless thread, my favorite

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      why is this such a recurring theme among moronic zoomies?
      good grief, if you want to be homeless trash, just go do it. you don't need to ask anyone's permission.
      and it's not like the barriers to entry are that high:
      step 1:
      >be lowlife filth
      step 2:
      >leave your shit everywhere and beg for handouts.

      done!
      in seriousness though, the amount of entitlement and nihilism.. we're so fricked in about 15 years.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      most homeless folks are PrepHole 24 hours a day, didn't you knoew?

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You should make a youtube video series about it too :^)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Lol I'm camera shy and it would be gay. I'm not an attention prostitute or a grifter

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >live in a van
    ....down by the river?

    do zoomers even know?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      My boomer parents unironically invoke this skit whenever I tell them about my van life aspirations

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        mine too ha ha

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I find it funny that a certain lifestyle which was frowned upon and considered "loser tier" 30 years ago is increasingly hip, cool, and something to aspire to now.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            it's the same way the 'tiny house' nonsense became popular. imagine talking to a time traveler from say.. 1980 about them

            >it's a one room, tiny house. but costs almost as much as a normal house
            >so they're completely moronic?
            >no, you don't get it. it's a tiny house, but still really expensive.
            >okay, so they ARE moronic?
            >bruh, do you even instagram?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >something to aspire to now
            I dont think living in a van is really something to aspire to....larping out for a year while traveling is one thing. Living in a van cuz your a loser is another...maybe its a fine line...

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The consensus is you should own a van, but not live in it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yup.
      Vacation in it? Sure, why not.
      But live in it?
      You'll be hating your life within a month.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I live in a van, it's mostly chill. Main issue is honestly just power. Toilets are plentiful and I shower at the gym. Keep to yourself (or park out of the way) and you'll be fine. I just use my cell for internet, either on it or as a hotspot.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Get a ac to DC shore power charger. If you keep your eyes open there's quite a bit of 110v outlets scattered all over the place for Christmas lights and etc. If you get one that can handle 230volt as well you can charge via an EV charger with an adapter. I got one but my city started charging stupid prices to charge EVs so now I just steal power from public outlets.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I just use an external battery pack with a folding solar panel. I also sometimes charge it with the inverter, if I'm driving a while.
        I've thought about getting a little generator, but the only thing I have that really draws power is my laptop, and it's not worth getting just for that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          There's your problem, those jackery things gave dog shit capacity for the price

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >external battery pack
          >sometimes charge it with the inverter
          >in this way I maximize how many electrons I lose by converting DC from my alternator into AC just to turn it back into DC and then probably back to AC again if my packaged battery thing has AC outlets on it

          Abhorrent efficiency loss.
          Lead acid golf cart batteries have the greatest usable amp hours for dollars invested. Charge them with solar and from your alternator directly (with a continuous duty solenoid to separate them from engine battery).
          Please stop buying those pre-packaged battery pack scams, they're nothing more than overpriced batteries shrouded in plastic and marketing.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Pretty much this. Unless you build your own lithium battery with unbranded cells and a aliexpress BMS you are just getting ripped off. The entire portable battery market is hyper inflated prices for capacity. Also if you aren't moronic and understand boost buck converters you can power almost everything with DC and never need an inverter.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      based! what led you to van life? how do you make money?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >what led you to van life?
        Honestly? Divorce, alcoholism, and a mental breakdown. Didn't really plan for it.
        >how do you make money?
        I...work? It's just a normal job, pays like shit but it keeps me around.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Larp, that van is way too clean and organized for a full timer.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Look everybody! Its "Liar-Anon"!

        Your going to have to wrap up puberty and enter adulthood at some point anon, unless your aspiration is to be a smelly old hobo in a shanty town tent encampment filled with tweakers and wierdos.

        NPC response

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >if you live in a van you must live in filth and squalor
        >if you keep your home clean you're larping
        does your mom still clean up after you or what?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          No but I had a truck with a camper top I used to go on road trips in the eastern sierra. Small spaces that are lived in for any length of time are in a state of obvious squalor even if you are normally a neatnick.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      looks good although I disagree with the other reply, you need to vacuum
      what kind of dog?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >what kind of dog?
        The not-a-dog kind.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I was surprised at how well she adapted to the van, she loves it.
          Helps that I usually walk her for a few hours each day.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Cool

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Based on so many level, gib chin scritches from me

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          https://i.imgur.com/9fWhBJm.jpg

          I was surprised at how well she adapted to the van, she loves it.
          Helps that I usually walk her for a few hours each day.

          is cat

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Well-spotted, Anon.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I wanted to, then I met a woman in a camper and moved into that. Long story short, moved outta that, bought a van and started converting myself. I'd say I'm a little over halfway through. Looking to take off in Spring

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Living in a van is fricking cringe. Owning a house and a van you take out is less cringe.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    have no experience, just watch vanity vanlife channel sometimes, some of his earlier videos are better if you want a whitewash glimpse into what it might be like

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >vanity
      *vancity

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >vanity
      *vancity

      >vancity vanlife
      I find that guy kind of annoying. I like foresty forest better

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'm fairly certain he's a massive fraud, the dude is like 50 and living in a van with a huge channel there's no way he's roughing it in a van anymore.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >the dude is like 50 and living in a van with a huge channel there's no way he's roughing it in a van anymore.
          he uploads a new video like every day though. his content lately is shit but I don't think he's not living in his van

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Forestry forest is better but he doesn't really show van life and I don't care about summits or watching cooking, maybe he has older vids like the other guy.

        I'm fairly certain he's a massive fraud, the dude is like 50 and living in a van with a huge channel there's no way he's roughing it in a van anymore.

        His older vids, he has a playlist. His new stuff is youtuber tier, but sometimes interesting to me. He obviously fakes enthusiasm, etc. but that's most youtube people.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if you live in it full-time its best done for backpacking trips or working holiday/wwoofing stuff where you want to maximize seeing as much of a country as you can in a year.
    if you arent doing PrepHole memes in it though, its best used just for weekend warrior stuff, like surfing, fishing, hikes etc for those times you want to wake up at the PrepHole you want to do and do it from sunrise, instead of losing half a day driving to it.

    main thing for me at least is showering and lack of space.
    yeah you can rig up some decent bush showers on a van or hung from a tree branch but nothing's like a nice hot shower or bath at home.
    as for the size thing, anyone that lives in a van more than a week is probably a manlet. if you're a normal height like 6ft4 then you'll be constantly crouched over no matter how many $100k you throw at buying a fancy vehicle

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >normal height like 6ft4
      The van is for sitting/sleeping in, not playing racquetball.
      t. above average height

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        try cooking a meal in a van without a high top moron

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >height represented in the mind of a woman

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >if you're a normal height like 6ft4
      >tfw 5'6
      God may have made me a subhuman gnome in the eyes of my peers and women, but at least he made me the ideal size for van life. I'll use this as my cope if I ever do van life.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >"Just go PrepHole!"
    Ok, im out now
    >"Homeless junkie trash!"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      every time

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    99% of "van life" and "off grid cabin" youtube shill channels are trust-fund kids playing with mommy and daddy's money. I could care less if they all got assaulted by a drunk injun.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      prove it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >assaulted by a drunk injun.

      This happens way more than you think it does, its a real danger

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        99% of "van life" and "off grid cabin" youtube shill channels are trust-fund kids playing with mommy and daddy's money. I could care less if they all got assaulted by a drunk injun.

        all you have to do to avoid this is stay clear of reservations. they're so drunk and dumb that they rarely leave its vicinity

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          There are indian reservations all over the southwest and they are near many of the cool places to camp
          If you live your life avoiding indians , you are going miss a ton of awesome stuff

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I'm from northern minnesota so I understand. the injun morons here let their dogs run wild and they form packs. camping near reservations is always a hassle for me because I'm always worrying about being confronted by a pack of stray dogs. it happened to a family friend a while back and they attacked him, ripped part of his finger off. I fricking hate injuns so much it's unreal.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Come out west brother
              They are so different out here
              English is not even the native language for many of them

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So you do care.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So what?

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I know 2 people who live in vans. So I can say that 100% of people who live in vans are average hard working guys who do not have a youtube channel.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I know one. He works at an Amazon warehouse for 6 months then lives on the road for 6 months.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I live in my car right now. I got back from a long international climbing trip a couple weeks ago without much money and decided to buy a car for a thousand bucks rather than pay $2500 in move-in costs for some shitty room in some boomers house. I injured my ankle I can't really do shit outdoors for a bit so it's not so great. I got a job it's easy because I'm not a tweaker piece of shit

    Am I working towards stability or an apartment? no, not really, I'll find a seasonal job with housing somewhere in the next few months then sell the car blow the money on gear and a few months of freedom. visit one of my women somewhere. I wouldn't mind living in nice new AWD Transit with stand-up headroom and a shitter/shower combo or a Super Duty with a drop-in camper. Anything else is just a pain in the ass. I'd rather buy some off grid property rather than drop $50K on a van and I'd rather live in a cheap room than a beat up old econoline looking for a place to shit forever. this concludes my blog for today thanks come again

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Your going to have to wrap up puberty and enter adulthood at some point anon, unless your aspiration is to be a smelly old hobo in a shanty town tent encampment filled with tweakers and wierdos.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Take the wildfire pill fren, its what i do than i climb in the winter. Unless you dont like Alpine climbing than i guess get fricked.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    great, who let the hobos on the board again

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Always been here, always will be

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        to be fair terry was a certifiable genius, his story is actually quite sad. It's also very different from the strung out junkies/alchies who shit up every single street corner in the PNW panhandling.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He was too good for this world. He was God's van-lifer.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Legend

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I live in California and made a library card to borrow a free hotspot.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    boomp

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm working on a job in the wops and I camp down a rough 4x4 track in my ute mon-fri beside a river nobody for miles
    >all I'd need to figure out is how to get a consistent and reliable internet connection.
    I have an unlimited 4G sim card but where I camp has almost no reception.
    I just loaded movies onto my tablet (pictured Indian in the cupboard) and I guess I can download youtube videos while I'm working since there's reception there.
    If I was desperate for internet I would try mounting a big 4m whip aerial on the ute, one that you can fold down, with a 4G receiver on the tip which would probably work.
    Not sure how I would connect it to my tablet but a laptop would have USB ports and just run a cable.
    Power is easy since I have all my makita tools and a makita USB attachment for my 7x 5.0mah batteries that I keep charged at work

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There were a shitload of vans sold the last couple years-companies don’t drive them into the ground so they’ll be a lot for sale the next couple years

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've got a toyota sienna that I've got souped up
    But I will not live in it and I will only nap in it if there is no better option.
    I don't see the point of a perfectly good utilitarian vehicle and turning it into a shitty house.
    It's hot outside.

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