What the hell are you talking about? I’ve written several times in the thread that you are allowed to leave the city you’re dumped in, so long as you do not try to go home or to any of the city’s disallowed because you have contacts there.
Sam, while I understand and approve of your refusal to leave your daughter for the challenge, I feel obliged to point out that your handlers’ duties include protecting you from assault, which is going to include rape. As others have pointed out, that makes this scenario different from true homelessness.
I’m not sure what the story is elsewhere, but in my county, you can only use the the internet at the library if you have a library card. And you can only get a library card if you have proof of local residence.
That doesn’t mean you can’t go to the library and read books all day. Assuming you know which ones are open which days.
I have mad skills as a licensed HVAC/Plumber/Electrical contractor. A couple days would be needed to work out some short term housing. (Salvation Army etc)
In a month I would have bartered my skills into a cheap efficiency. I bet I could lay out the groundwork to start a business there, and if was a cool city (like Seattle) I might just stay.
I’m not naive. It wouldn’t be easy. but it certainly wouldn’t be the hardest thing I’ve had to do.
It would depend on the contract other posters have been demanding ;), but I suspect that starting your own business would disqualify you just as regular employment would. You’d be okay on the bartering of skill for short-term housing, though.
I’d do it once we settled exactly who was a “friend” and who was just an “associate.” Because I know people in just about every major burg in the country, which means I’ll be starting in some really bad place to start like Birmingham, Alabama or Boise, Idaho.
I haven’t read every post in the thread, but am I allowed to tell people I interact with about the conditions of the wager? Probably not, because I could then “day-labor” doing interviews and such for room and board.
For 10 mil., I’d sleep on the streets every night, panhandle for my only source of income, and relieve myself in alleys or woods.
One year of this and I’m set for life?* Bring it on.
*Yeah, I know, plenty of folks burn through a lot more than ten million and end up broke. Having gone through the homeless experience for an entire year, though, I’d be ultra careful to not piss the windfall away.
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I’m missing something here. I can work as a day laborer (which would be a job that pays wages) and I can trade work skills for food and shelter.
Sign me up for that. I’d be painting apartments under renovation and guarding them before the new owners move in. I think I could work cable into the deal.
Oh, OK then, that does change things somewhat. Not enough to leave my daughter in care for a year, but obviously most people don’t have that issue.
So, the other posts about getting a day’s labour - even the ones where you get bed and board - do they count? Because then it’s a very, very watered-down version of homelessness and most people would take it up. It’s basically ‘can you live for a year with no permanent job and home, but with food, money and a roof over your head. For 10 million dollars.’ Hell, if I could take my daughter with me then I’d go for that too.
If my safety were guaranteed, then I’d probably do it. I could learn to find food/shelter–my destination would likely be Chicago, which I’m sure has plenty of resources–but I’m a rather petite female, so violence would definitely be my number one concern. This handler had better be a freakin’ Navy Seal.
If I had to live like an actual homeless person, with no protection, then hell no I wouldn’t do it.
ETA: Actually, I have a question. Could I research the homeless shelters and other resources of my destination beforehand, so that I’d have some idea where to go?
If it weren’t for my children and my familial obligation to be there for my parents should anything happen to them, I’d do it in a second, and for less than $10m, too. It’s not the comfort, it’s the question of being here for family. I wouldn’t give that up for anything. I can’t see any time in the distant future that I’d be okay with being out of contact from my children for a whole year, either, even if they’re in their twenties. So, no.
However, if you’d have asked me this just a few years ago when I was child-free, I’d be all over that stuff.
Been homeless and could do it again. The only thing I would hate is being in NYC. Maybe I could persuade one of my friends to move there so I could be sent someplace else.
You can do day labor if you can find it. You can take regular work in exchange for room & board if you can find it. You can’t take a regular job for wages.
I can’t see taking a kid with me. Many risks I’m willing to take for myself are unacceptable for people I love.
I would do it in a heartbeat. However, my husband wouldn’t be able to find anything for a year. Or perhaps he would learn to look behind things. Libraries and used book stores would become my best friends.
For ten million dollars, that’s be well worth doing then, if you don’t have a kid. Hell, getting all your prescriptions plus a tiny bit of cash and the right to work is more than some people actually have now.
My kid’s 13, and you’ve already guaranteed we’re not going to get raped or assaulted.
Just let me put my stuff in storage, hand my house plants over to my sister, and put me on a bus for warmer climes first, please. Minnesota in January ain’t where I want to be homeless.