carcamper

I lived in my car for 8 months this year. When I didn't have a job I was at the public library everyday reading about and writing code. I applied for every job I could anywhere in the country. Eventually it paid off and I got a job.

Playing the race card on why life is hard is a cop out. You have to put effort into this. You cannot huff and puff your way into it.

This site is filled with people posting blogs and sites that contain free tutorials.

It's a phishing attack for them. They want to know if I'm drunk/high/or up to trouble(yes even though I'm sleeping) and they ask question after question to interrogate me and get me to slip up (implying they think I'm just feeding them bs about not being a criminal). They'd follow up with trick questions like 'well do you have any weapons to protect yourself?' they'd circle back and ask me multiple times why I was there trying to get me to change my story.

After a couple times of this you know their tricks and it becomes a game. I wasn't sure if it was illegal to be transient so I would always just stick with being too tired to keep driving.

Not once were questions out of sincerity or to offer help, just to find ways to pin me with a charge. It was despicable.

It's cool to see other people doing this. Until a couple weeks ago that's what I was doing. This is even my throwaway account for topics like this.

I lived in my car and didn't work for a big company so accomodations were a little less plesant. However even after 6 months I didn't really mind it. I went to the gym and lift every morning then cleaned up and went to work, then when I was unemployed I went to the library.

Not having an 'official' place to sleep was the worst part. I slept in Walmart parking lots. I rotated between 3 but had one main one. I got harassed by cops pretty frequently which was the worst part. Never had a single person (not cop) bother me, and I wasn't exactly in the best areas (as many walmarts aren't).

That wasn't the first time I was 'homeless' so I guess I'm used to that lifestyle now, and I'd do it again in a heart beat. (I live in a cold state now, so it's a little more difficult)

I'm curious how they do get accurate numbers on homeless. Is it just people checking into shelters? I've been living in my car for 5 months now. I'm not on any homeless radar/reports/etc. How many more people like me are there that fly under the radar.

Hello fellow car camper. I also live in my car. Although it's not as well setup or planned out as you, I just lay back the passenger seat and sleep there, no tint either which sucks.

When it was cooler out I would lay my back seat down and roll out the sleeping pad and sleeping bag and stretch out like that, but it's too hot and humid for that now (south east US).

I'm looking to move to the bay area, are walmarts accepting of overnight sleepers there? Do you use church parking lots at all?