Re:Meet the minimalists living out of a hard drive
by rdouble on Monday August 16, 2010 @01:10PM
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Many retired people get rid of all their stuff and do the RV nomad thing.
In the future when nobody has enough money to buy a house or a bunch of stuff in the first place we'll probably be seeing more nomadic seniors.
Re:Meet the minimalists living out of a hard drive
by jacquesm on Monday August 16, 2010 @01:16PM
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An RV is a mobile home, it has all the trappings of a home except for size, and for some of those RVs the size was bigger than my smallest apartment. It's just exchanging one set of stuff for a more mobile set of stuff, but not exactly minimalist.
Those couples that I've met that did the 'RV thing' after their pension typically saw it as a way to do all the traveling that they had missed out on while in their working years, a way to reward a lifetime of hard work.
It's great in theory when you're healthy, in your early 20's to early 30's, when you are independent and have no dependents, when you are living in a climate that is favorable, and when you're living in a city.
If any of those circumstances are not met you'll be either in a lot of trouble or you're most likely going to change.
Those that don't have the option to change we call street people.
And living off other people's couches and/or fridges and such does not make you an independent.
I can see a good reason for doing with 'less stuff', but this extreme is simply not realistic on anything but the smallest of scales.
It'd be tough if all your friends decided to do it tomorrow and you'd all want to sleep on each others' no longer existent couches...