Where do you park your van, and how often do you shower?
Also, do you worry about your van being broken in to while you're not there?
Also, do you worry about your van being broken in to while you're not there?
I shower every morning at my local 24 hour super sport gym. I'm a sucker for hygiene.
I don't really worry about my van being broken into because I think I tend to stay in low crime neighborhoods. I'm also not really attached to any material possessions contained within. Things come and go, no need to worry about them while they're here.
I'm writing a tongue-in-cheek book about the van life experience tentatively called "Tech Bubble Burst: A survival guide to living in and out of your van." It's been a blast of experience so far. :)
I have known people who live out of a van/truck camper until cops realize what's going on. They will harass you to no end. The tickets are expensive. The days of " Just move on." are over.
That said, in most counties, there is nowhere to park a vechicle overnight. We need to desiginate areas, in commercial areas, where people can legally sleep.
They have pretty much made it illegial to sleep Anywhere, without paying. Even Parks have time restrictions. I'm ashamed of what America has become.
If Jesus Christ reappeared, he would be hit with multiple municipal fines within a few days. It's just not right.
(If I seem mad-- I am. I had a friend who tried to live in the back of his truck, and take showers at a local gym. Cops harassed him nightly. Once the gym found out he was just using the showers--they made his life difficult. The one slime ball manager would time his workouts in order to use the facilities. Wonderful world we've got? Oh--yea, he was doing non-union construction. The last thing he wanted to do was workout at 6:30 a.m. in order to take a shower.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-truc...
OMG THIS.
So, I found about the last meteor shower one day before its peak. So my idea was to find a place – any place – that wasn't near any buildings. Forget about light pollution, I just wanted a sky devoid of direct lights. So, parks would be a nice option.
But try as I might, I couldn't find any parks that would allow me to stay after 6PM. There's one in Palo Alto that allows that for 'stargazing', but you have to request a permit in advance.
A permit? Really? For stargazing in a notorious light-polluted area? And that has to be filed in advance in business days? Come on.
At this rate I expect that you won't be allowed to park in the middle of nowhere in Nevada after the sun goes down.
Almost every woman I know has an innate fear of walking alone at night.
I'm not sure of the statistics, but my guess is that violent crime like rape happens far more to women to men.
For rape ("sexual assault"), women "win" by far (F: 91.89% M: 8.11%), but it's much less frequent than "aggravated assault" and "robbery". Also, I'm assuming that "sexual assault" doesn't include prison rape (which makes sense, since that's not something you should fear in public), but it probably includes rape by friend/acquaintance (which isn't something that you should fear in public, and wouldn't rise if living in a RV compared to a house). Allegedly, rape by stranger (in public) is a rather rare form of rape (although it still makes sense to fear it and not put yourself in situations where it's likely to happen).
Men are the majority of victims of serious crime (after removing "simple assault") (F: 40.22% M: 59.78%).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime#In_Ca...
What I found interesting was a recent study that found rape has a much higher rate of PTSD occurrence than other crimes - maybe it's so uniquely traumatic (and the threat of it so terrifying) that it forces women to be more careful than men even when men are statistically much more likely to be assaulted by strangers.
Well, you don't get PTSD after murder, and I would say that rape is the next worst thing that can happen to you, so I don't think it's that surprising...