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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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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.

YES! Absolutely. I look back on my 20s and these events where I had a moments of bravery in a sea of mediocrity and regret stand out as the defining moments that had any lasting memories.

Things as simple as talking to a girl on the train and striking up a friendship to saving up some money and quitting my job that I hated and did not want to do to buy a one way ticket to another continent and living out of hostels.

There have been pain points: , a decade later that girl ended up causing me grief when we did not amicably split ties, the trip caused me to encounter scammers on the run from the law that robbed me of some money and almost landed me in French jail by mistake, the switch from a field I got boxed into that I quit to what I wanted to do was painful and took way longer than it should have.

But looking back, i'd suffer through the dark moments all over again because it made me grow. My life looking back thus far was a mostly mundane existence of missed opportunities mixed in with moments of bravery that spiced things up from time to time and for that I am grateful and blessed.

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

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post #237

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When I was interrailing I'd try and do some across Europe night trains as it meant I saved on hostel costs and I'd wake up somewhere new. The choices are somewhat limited though

We did that a lot as well. Night trains are the closest mankind has to teleportation. Hop on a train in Berlin, have a beer, sleep, wake up in the centre Paris or Rome with a coffee and a croissant.

The closest we have to teleportation is airplanes (i.e. shortest travel time). Sleeper trains are more like cryostasis ships. The journey takes forever, but you don't notice.

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

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When I was interrailing I'd try and do some across Europe night trains as it meant I saved on hostel costs and I'd wake up somewhere new. The choices are somewhat limited though

Getting better again slowly after a bad period.

That's what she says every month.

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

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post #62

Brave move, but I wonder how he keeps or makes new friendships and deeper relationships. Maybe this is fine for a while, but people need people (not just text in a chatroom), and I hope he has an exit strategy from this lifestyle, for this reason.

> people need people While this lifestyle is not for me, i tend to concur on the statement. I personally pick my houses as distant from people as possible. People don’t need people. Sure it gets lonely sometimes but let me ask you if you enjoying the company you have all the time. People don’t need people. It’s rather personality related

YMMV, but all humans are social creatures, going back to our primate ancestors. Isolation harms health, mentally, emotionally, and physically; at its extreme, such as solitary confinement, it's considered torture. Note that almost all humans socialize and live among other humans (compared to animals like bears which live alone).

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

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post #75

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Hunger, exposure to the elements, illness, death.

I missed that part of the article. What are you talking about?

I'm talking about what it means to be homeless and not owning anything.

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

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post #400

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.

No worries, this guy is in debt like you!

  "Schlussendlich schaffte ich es nur mit einem Kredit von meinem Onkel, die 5.888€ für die BahnCard aufzubringen"

  "I only managed to raise €5,888 for the BahnCard with a loan from my uncle"
source: https://leben-im-zug.de/mein-jahresrueckblick-2023/

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

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post #47

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…

> digital nomad > NAS I think that is cheating on the nomad thing a lot a bit.

No more than using cloud services.

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

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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.

Exactly! My understanding is the incels believe women are responding favorably to that asshole behavior thus the connection to the original meaning but also how it tied into their obsession. Not sure that way of thinking has worked out well for anyone save for being a redemption arc for the Chads of the world.

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

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When I was interrailing I'd try and do some across Europe night trains as it meant I saved on hostel costs and I'd wake up somewhere new. The choices are somewhat limited though

Getting better again slowly after a bad period.

To what are you referring? The Interrail/Eurail scheme getting better again after a bad period?

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

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While that is true (if you don't have a seat reservation) you are prohibited from occupying more than one seat per DB ToS. "Each passenger is only allowed to occupy one seat [...] Passengers who behave contrary to the above regulations, ignore the instructions of employees or otherwise pose a threat to safety and order can be excluded from transport or further transport without entitlement to reimbursement of the far…

Is he really occupying more than one seat if there’s nobody else there to take the remainder?

Does a falling tree in a forest make a sound if there's no one around to hear it.
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