I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
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I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
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Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
#2So he's been sleeping in an uncomfortable plastic chair with the lights on for the past year. The things you can do while you're still 17.
Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
#3So he's been sleeping in an uncomfortable plastic chair with the lights on for the past year. The things you can do while you're still 17.
But hey... all that for "just" 8500 GBP! /s
Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
#4So he's been sleeping in an uncomfortable plastic chair with the lights on for the past year. The things you can do while you're still 17.
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Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
#5Compared to the UK where a standard-class rail season ticket for me to get to London (including underground), at £8,272 p/y.. but for that, I also have the luxury of either standing in an overcrowded carriage, or if I am super lucky I get to sit in a seat that smells of urine.
Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
#6So he's been sleeping in an uncomfortable plastic chair with the lights on for the past year. The things you can do while you're still 17.
There are some sleeper trains still in Germany - although you need to pay a supplement on top of the annual train-ticket to use them. It would limit you quite heavily to certain transport coridors though.
Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
#7All fine and good, I hope he likes it but €10k is a lot of money to live more or less like a beggar.
With €10k/y you can afford a house+food+bills in most of Europe and in many places it is way cheaper than that.
So... yeah, I find it incredibly stupid.
Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
#8So he's been sleeping in an uncomfortable plastic chair with the lights on for the past year. The things you can do while you're still 17.
I don't know if you're British since this seems to echo the weird comments at the beginning of the article, dissing trains for apparently no particular reason.
But no, he's likely been sleeping in beds since he's first class in night trains, in 3-bed compartments that generally have showers as far as I know. The lights can obviously be turned off.
Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
#9So he's been sleeping in an uncomfortable plastic chair with the lights on for the past year. The things you can do while you're still 17.
He mentioned night trains and how it is important to catch one at the end of the day so I imagine he is sleeping in bunk beds at least.
Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
#10So he's been sleeping in an uncomfortable plastic chair with the lights on for the past year. The things you can do while you're still 17.
At least you got his age correct.
Lasse travels 600 miles a day throughout Germany aboard Deutsche Bahn trains. He travels first class, sleeps on night trains, has breakfast in DB lounges and takes showers in public swimming pools and leisure centres, all using his unlimited annual railcard.
‘I’ve been living on the train as a digital nomad for a year and a half now,’ Lasse told Business Insider recently.