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What do you do, exactly, to earn money for food/clothes in that lifestyle? That has always puzzled me
People that wander for a living usually live by a combination of charity and payments for odd jobs. For example, a small farmer might gladly part with some old clothes and provide a few meals and a bed in exchange for help with some tasks, and I've heard about people with a preternatural ability to couchsurf from city to city.
Whatever you want to do. Go spend a season helping out ona farm in Hawaii, then go help build an ecovillage in Australia, then spend some time walking around New Zealand washing dishes and bussing tables, then off to India where you'll build rope bridges and tree houses for a sustainable community. After that, you can go to Thailand or Vietnam and teach English for a little while, before making your way into the Mediterranean and spending a year and a half on the island of Bozcaada helping an old man repair out building and herd goats.
That's literally what my friend did for over 5 years after one day he just decided to leave and had just enough money for a plane ticket to Hawaii from San Diego. Everything else was work and accommodations he found along the way. The only reason he came back was because of covid, and now he's an RN and makes a bunch of money and he hates his life and is in and out of rehab.
Try doing that with a passport and the typical access to Education from, say Burkina Faso.
Yeah aside from money, a lot of people forget about passport privilege.
Moving the goalposts. We can assume from context that they are speaking to an audience from developed nations.
This all started with:
To which the previous poster added an example.
I'm pointing out that there are many other common contexts were things don't at all work like that.
By that "logic" of yours whenever a Western newspaper publishes a story about something that happened elsewhere in the World, it's "goalpost moving".
I think you're confusing your own "I don't give a shit about people not like me" mindset with the mindset of the entire audience here.
Eto wi’de noon e ɗemngal laawɗungal leydi Burkinaa.
But since the rest of the thread is in English, I hope you'll forgive me for thinking of this in the context of predominantly English-speaking countries.
Well, the reason why I also included "typical access to Education" is that for those from countries whose main language isn't the most often spoken second language in the World, the most common way to learn it is at school.
I cant get people to pay me enough to live here, how can i rely on charity/people willing to pay me elsewhere? Literally i have no issue working, I just want to make enough money to survive
Literally just apply to teach English in Asia. Typically the wage is a solid middle class income, and you don't need to know anything about teaching or English.
You can also look into WWOOFing if you want to explore that.
The general issue with this is the amount of people who can do this, is literally one in a million basically. And I mean that in that if too many people tried to do it. It would quickly become unfeesable due to lack of opportunities. Not will or skill or even money
This is a great example of the expection to the rule.
Yeah, I have a friend. She emancipated herself from her family at 16 and got her GED. Worked nannying and waitresssing jobs when she needed money, but otherwise spent about 5 years traveling the world.
A lot have taken up being digital nomads. Not a bad way to make a living off you can get good Internet access somehow.
And fit into a little RV.
The internet is in the very air that we breath
breathe*
breath is "taking a breath" or "out of breath", ends without an e sound (obviously).
It's pretty easy to find it within a half days journey in most of the world now, most towns and cities will have public WiFi in some form.
I wish I could live like that, but medication and executive dysfunction makes it impossible. Hopefully in the future.