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You can figure out the rest. Buy takeaways or use a gas stove for food, use a 24/7 gym for showering/toilet, and go to your job for the internet (alternatively, the library, free WiFi places, or mobile net).
That's probably the cheapest way to live without being entirely homeless (or just buying land/house).
If you're serious about cheapest as the most important variable, then the sort of glib (but true) answer to this question is to observe where people who have no other choice end up living, which means a trailer in a rural area or housing in the cheapest parts of any large U.S. metro. If you're lucky enough to have startup capital, then you can reduce your recurring expenses to practically nothing. You can find a trai…
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You may try looking into Tiny houses, they may cause some problems with zoning in some area's so picking a location will require some research. A tiny house can easily run under $20,000 fully equipped. Some people have been able to build them for under $10,000. Fix the house with solar panels, maybe a small wind turbine for electricity. tin roof with a rain water collection, you can run is through a 3 stage or 5 stag…
Where would you typically park them for an extended period of time? Is that what you mean with zoning problems? Do people usually try to hang out in a large parking lot for long enough? Or perhaps just get outside the city limit in what looks like abandoned land? Also, how do you deal with the waste water in the long run? Stop by RV parks and empty out your septic tanks?
So yeah, there are zoning requirements and it's a good idea to do research before going for a tiny house.
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> I feel that optimizing sub-$500 expenses is not the best use of one's time versus figuring out how to make money Second this. You can only save so much, but there's practically no upper limit on how much you can make. Plus making money is more fun than saving it. Saving generally requires sacrifices that decrease your quality of life. And there are diminishing returns, so you'll need to make ever-bigger sacrifices…
I third this but the problem is it is easier to save the dollar that you already have in your hand than finding a new way to make it. So it is good to cut down on expenses without sacrificing much on life style
http://www.trulia.com/for_sale/Cleveland,OH
It is cold...but it isn't Detroit.
Basically, any job that requires you to relocate will minimise YOUR expenses, because your company will pay for it all. But I get the feeling that's not what you were after.
Pick a college town and rent an apartment, optionally with a roommate. In much of the American midwest this implies an all-in rent & utilities expense in the $500 range. If you wanted to try something more exotic, you can do the digital nomad thing and rent somewhere in Thailand for ~$100 a month, but honestly as a programmer I feel that optimizing sub-$500 expenses is not the best use of one's time versus figuring o…
> if you wouldn't get a job as an electrician or day laborer which paid $400 a month then you shouldn't take on any major construction project to save $400 a month We're engineers. We enjoy building things. All sorts of things. I wouldn't do it all the time, but why not try your hand at building yourself a house? Not as a means to save money, but as a hobby, an interesting project, something fun?
I've been able to do this after re-arranging my life over the past 5 years. I bought 7 acres of bare land for $35k and built a 200 sqft tiny house for $4,000. I homestead as much as I can and my bills are approximately $40/DSL, $40/Electrical, $35/Car insurance (I drive a 90s Honda), and approximately $30 a month in property taxes. I spend about $40 in propane for heat in the winter and my air conditioning bill is an…
Very cool, do you have any suggestions as far as finding and purchasing cheap land?