TYT: Tips To Save Money: Live In A Van At Work

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“When 23-year-old Brandon headed from Massachusetts to the Bay Area in mid-May to start work as a software engineer at Google, he opted out of settling into an overpriced San Francisco apartment. Instead, he moved into a 128-square-foot truck.

The idea started to formulate while Brandon — who asked to withhold his last name and photo to maintain his privacy on campus — was interning at Google last summer and living in the cheapest corporate housing offered: two bedrooms and four people for about $65 a night (roughly $2,000 a month), he told Business Insider.

"I realized I was paying an exorbitant amount of money for the apartment I was staying in — and I was almost never home," he says. "It's really hard to justify throwing that kind of money away. You're essentially burning it — you're not putting equity in anything and you're not building it up for a future — and that was really hard for me to reconcile."

Read more here: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-truck-in-parking-lot-2015-10

Cenk Uygur, Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Brett Erlich (Pop Trigger) hosts of The Young Turks discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

[SheilaT]

1. Given that the the interior of the van

is about the size of the micro-houses many people think are the best new thing out there, this is a sensible solution to the high rents of places like San Francisco.

[Warpy]

2. This will work until more people do it

and the company complains about parking lot spaces being taken up by trailers and vans with people living in them and the board of health and zoning commission both get involved. It only works when it's done quietly and by only a few solitary souls.

I lived in a truck in a parking lot one summer. It worked as long as nobody noticed.

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3. Barred from front page

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