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Cars are nifty. Expensive, but nice.

Bikes are cheaper, and cooler :satisfied

Buy a bus, stick in a bed, wood burner, sink and cooker, pack in work and drive off into the hills :bounce_g:

buying the car is the cheapest thing …

look for a small car, generally peugeots and small nissans are the more popular cars. take someone with you (like a mate who’s a mechanic) to view it, get ’em to have a look over and see if its worth buying. if it needs repairs, what are they and is it worth doing.

someone else would have to talk about the insurance etc, im clueless on that stuff.

Fair points – still there are ways of doing it on the cheap. The insurance cost for a newly qualified young driver will be high on any vehicle, but as far as the type of vehicle goes a live-in isn’t more expensive than a car to insure – it’s the value and the power of the vehicle that can push up the premium, and also your postcode makes a huge difference, but an old, slow bus or truck won’t be any worse than a car. Fuel costs would be high on a very big bus, but I’m getting about 35 miles to the gallon out of my 3.5 tonner which ain’t bad, although older engines won’t be quite that efficient. If you buy an old commercial van and do the conversion to camper yourself it can be done with a small budget if you are a wee bit inventive – never pass a skip without having a wee rummage! Alright it still costs you something, but you can do the bare essentials without spending a fortune and after that you do what you think most important as and when you can afford to.

The real savings come once you start living in your vehicle though – suddenly you don’t have to pay rent or a mortgage, you don’t have to pay council tax, you don’t have to pay for water or sewerage, and you are forced to use only the resources you need, so much less energy consumed, and so you’re saving that way as well. So as a lifestyle choice it probably still works out cheaper than living in a house or flat even if the insurance is stupidly expensive for a young driver. I’m not saying it’s the life for everyone, but I wouldn’t dismiss it as “too expensive to be attainable”. Where there’s a will there’s usually a way 😉 My first van was done very much on the cheap it can be done.

Old bill can be a right pain ’tis true, but in my experience it varies hugely across different parts of the country. Some areas they are not so bad, others they are bastards (especially Strathclyde!) If you stay well away from towns and cities you get hassled a lot less. OK maybe my perception is tainted by my age – the pigs will search a teenager more readily than a bloke in his 40’s, but then if you saw what this particular bloke in his 40’s looked like you might see it differently :crazy: Not exactly the straight pillar of society me hehe :crazy_diz

most 40/50/60 year olds who do drugs just do it for personal use, and i think that cops dont care about personal use as long as they dont see

Diddnt realise you’d got off the Island HH 😉

I’m still house bound but got to much on to think bout gettin out of gorjo land. Keep bumpin into folk off the travling scene though at parties its good to catch up. Seems that most folk with any sence fucked off into Europe.

I recon a road trip of Europes on the cards. Hmmmm now if I just had 3 grand for a Volvo FL6 and an 22ft Roma Supreme, oh and of corse a mrs to drive the blat motor :laugh_at: