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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

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Does "Chad" have positive connotations now? When I was younger it was fairly derogatory.

I believe incels co-opted and elevated Chads (using it to essentially refer to guys who have sex) and it became memed outside of just the incel community. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/virgin-vs-chad-meme/

So it went from "asshole" to "asshole who has lots of sex" to "guy who has lots of sex"? That kind of makes sense.

Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

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That is for renting a whole property. You will have to share with someone for €600 per month. Try the "Sharing" option in Daft for that.

Lowest I'm seeing in Blanchardstown for a room is €160 (the lower amounts are twin shares) Lowest I'm seeing in all of Dublin is €140 once you exclude twin rooms, monday-to-friday terms and whatever "Dublin Host Families" is

I have sneaking suspicion those are per week prices

Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

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Reminds me of the ads on the city buses in Berlin > 60m^2, keine Küche, kein Bad - Für 60,66 EUR warm im Monat. EN: 60 square meters, no kitchen, no bathroom - for just 60.66 EUR per month, utilities included. https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/20182186004296102...

...do you use the steam screenshot sharing function as an image host?

I'm glad I wasn't the only one perplexed by that.

Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

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I love trains as much as the next nerd but that's a heck of a commitment haha I think if I wanted to do the digital nomad thing I'd have to cheat on the nomad bit a little and have an anchor flat somewhere.. where else would I keep the NAS?! As it stands my lil studio flat is 300/yr cheaper with all bills inc and has a coffee machine built into the (admittedly communal, but massive) kitchen. Plenty of caffeine, plent…

a colo will host your nas in a virtual machine for €5 a month or in a physical machine for €30 a month. this includes the machine and internet connection. i think you'll have a hard time finding a studio flat in europe for under €150 a month

Kind of ironic that the train is a colo for people. A mobile colo.

Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

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> You know how it is with trains. Even the unsurprisingly much more efficient German rail system. Efficient and German Rail systems are not words that go together. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-november-train-punctuality-wor...

I'm surprised this is coming from the Metro. Trains in England are bad , but trains in Germany are the worst . The only thing that works in Germany are the busses, and even then, some of them you have to call an hour before first...

Why is that in your opinion? In the US, passenger trains (Amtrak) are generally hopeless as well (expensive, not punctual, etc) especially across most of the country where Amtrak operates on other company's (freight) tracks. In the northeast corridor (where Amtrak has its own tracks), its service is markedly better.

Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

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I do not believe. Does this guy have a passport? Then he has a mailing address. He claims to work. Then he pays taxes. In which country? he has a mailing address. At 17, I'd bet good money that his mailing address is also his parent's mailing address. This is a gap student having fun bouncing around Europe, about as nomadic as any other backpacker.

I’m in my 30s and resident at my parents house, on a continent I spend 30 days/year on average. My company is registered there even. Most people have a “home” (or mailing address) even if they don’t live there.

This was also the solution I used when I spent 3 years travelling the UK in a boat. And for that matter when I was living in London in shared flats...

Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

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Literally yes he is. You can argue about whether this should be enforced, but by the text of the contract, it is not allowed.

Fair use IMHO IANAL

You can use as many as you like until instructed not to.

Re: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

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IMHO, more young people should do this kind of thing (within reason of course). Now that I'm older I realize I didn't appreciate how opportunities to do stuff like this often diminish in later phases of life. Personally, I did have some adventures kind of like this, but in retrospect, I should have done a bit more as I look back very fondly on those times.

Would have done tons of things like this if I didn't have student loans hanging over my head.

This seems cheaper than rent so I don’t know what student loans has to do with it.
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