Asklemmy

Terrible as I only find joy in a few things and the van life makes almost all of them impossible. I guess that's the difference between choosing the van life, and the van life choosing you.

What is life worth if you cannot do what is most important to you?

Absolutely nothing. Less then nothing. Negative Nothing (sweet band name)

I move around every 4 months in the US. I stay in long-term Airbnbs (min 1 month stay). I work remote; so, the issue I mostly deal with is my working setup. No standing desk, comfortable chair, multi-monitor setup (using portable external monitor), etc.

Otherwise, the surroundings of the place I stay at is always a gamble. You never know if its a loud or safe neighborhood just by looking at the posting or street view on google maps. Sometimes there could be construction going on next door.

Eating around and exploring the country is the best part.

Hardest thing for me has been finding actual remote work. Look on any job board these days and everyone's claiming "remote*" when they're nothing of the sort.

This is the way

I spent about 4 years traveling the world working remotely, as a digital nomad you might say. Before the name was popular

Put things I didn't want to throw away into long-term storage. Had a laptop. Flew from place to place. The most important thing was securing a good internet connection in a place. If I couldn't get a good connection move on to another place, or back to a known good place.

Libraries, coffee shops, hotels, co-working spaces, all viable options for internet requirements.

Mail digitized through a mailbox service, and emailed to me.

Google voice for an international phone number that just needed internet connection

The day to day living was pretty cool. You could stay in a place as long as you want, you could leave as quick as you want. Finding people was fun. Sometimes you weren't sure about where you would be, could you book the hotel for more time? If you couldn't you had to find the next place. So you always had a plan of where you are, and where you want to go next.

I move every 2 weeks in an RV. So I roughly wake up in 26 different places over the year.

Internet is rough. But has gotten better over the years since I started.

I could imagine that socially it might be difficult for some.

But largely my routine is similar to if I were in a house/apartment:

Weekdays: work, cook/eat, walk/hike/explore, games, sleep. Weekends: groceries, cook/eat, chores/maintenance, relocate if needed, walk/hike/explore, games, sleep.

Oh - I usually remind people they’re giving up a dishwasher and laundry machines unless they’re going pretty big on their RV purchase.

Recently I’ve been parking during the summer and flying to different countries. It’s more or less the same - solid internet is a challenge and you get to work on a potential language barrier.