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My name is Joshua and I am your host and today we're

going to talk about living in your car and loving it. Car living is interesting to me

because it's one of those things that we often talk about but we have to talk about it in a very

Projorative tone a very kind of downright I can't believe that someone so and so is living in their car

Frankly a lot of people get forced into living in their car.

Over the past years, especially right in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis,

there were a number of articles about increasing

communities of people that were living in their cars to save money. People that

were losing their houses, getting forced out, getting laid off, etc.

I noticed a big uptick in news articles on the subject.

And I haven't noticed those news articles continuing today in 2017,

but I have noticed a fascinating growth of people who are living in their

cars on purpose. There are many people who live in their vehicles on purpose, and with our modern democratization of communication

where any individual can get their message out I found really interesting

communities of course

people who are all engaged in living in their cars and they call them van

dwelling communities because many people will live in their van. Of course there are

many variations of this and this is not an unknown thing after all there are thousands of very wealthy people who

live in their cars they just call their cars our ves and they're very big and often have an

expensive bus chassis and a big old diesel engine at the back but there

are lots of millionaires who live in their cars.

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