This Couple Lives In A Bus To Escape Chicago's High Cost Of Living
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- čas přidán 28. 12. 2016
- Rising costs of living in the U.S. are causing people to get creative when it comes to finding affordable housing.
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Five years ago, Julie and Andrew Puckett were working in the theater industry in Chicago when they realized they weren't happy with their living situation. They were both working long hours every week but they still weren't earning enough to make a comfortable living.
Rather than look for higher paying jobs, they took their life savings, bought a bus and started traveling the country.
Watch today's Seeker Stories video to get a glimpse inside this couple's nomadic lifestyle and find out more about the simpler life that so many people around the world are choosing for themselves today.
For more about Julie and Andrew, visit houseb.us/
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See mom, you don't need big house for a dog. Now can we have him?
Karan Chaphekar Exactly!
yes!!
Karan Chaphekar true!!
Your name sounds Indian. I can relate to your problem
The interior of the bus looks better than your house, admit it.
Couch Potato yup
That woman looks better than anyone you've ever dated, admit it.
b1merio I haven't dated anyone. I like being single.
my house is fresh as fuck boii
Couch Potato nope my house is only a million times nicer sorry if you're jealous
Coming in 2017, laws outlawing this way of living courtesy of housing lobbyists lol
b1merio you cant tell someone where to live if they do then they can go fuck themselves
Off course they can. And they will. Totalitarian system will come to US and western world. Its a reality.
Because more and more people are waking up. And they want to be free. The globalist elite wants to keep power over men, and there is no alternative but to enforce a totalitarian system. A police state. People in the west have power to wake up and change the world. But there is a cosmic justice. And it will bounce back to the west.Time will show...
That's not especially economical, considering that the upcoming generation cannot afford housing due to smothering student debt. Those laws cannot come to pass. The government will not gain anything from it. If they do, then will quickly be repealed out of external pressure. Housing markets will turn to prefabricated homes and tiny houses, and mobile homes like this one. Because that is were the power of the market and the vote of the dollar will take them. After all, money makes the world go round, and the money isn't in the big housing market anymore.
this is not for everyone. I agree with her "There is so much more to life than working to pay for stuff." I think this cuts down on road rage and anger and all kinds of stuff when people aren't stressed out having to Rush from job to job or work multiple jobs or kill themselves stressing out everyday over finances.
Follow your dreams Seekers and all the best for 2017.
That guy promised her the world and now she lives in a fucking bus
When did he "promise her the world?"
cartograp Youre probably right he didnt promise her shit and with her low standards she took shit
ok...
She can freely explore the world, they live on a bus that can move.
Your comment had me crying.
Well, it's better than paying $600+ a week.
where do you live with that cost?
well... in the netherlands the mortgage is around €600 a month. and you have a salary of around 2k (1 person...) but 600 dollars a week is fucking huge
Seameus I live in New York. If you find 1 studio for $1,200 you're lucky.
***** Only if you live in places like LA or NYC
artboy598 Even places not in big cities are seeing increases in rent, or big cities with traditionally low rent costs are unaffordable. Especially with such stagnant wages.
love it. I want to travel the states with my husband and my son.
housing food and gas are getting so high, that we need more affordable housing....even renting is out of the question for most ppl unless u want to rent with like 5 other ppl. we need tiny houses now!!!!!!!!!!
I love these stories, I feel like it's an adventure that everyone should try once in their lives, either for financial reasons or just to experience living on the go.
I love this couple. great job. I hope more people can do this. There is no need for homelessness. we have solutions. empathy & love, people.
OMG! I've camped at that park. It's beautiful. In the mornings the lake will be covered in fog but you can still hear all the animals moving and calling to each other. Ethereal.
Lived out of my car for four months in NYC, a bus would've been a dreeeeaaaammmm dam
Nice- These two are super-nice, and getting tons of youtube attention with their home, as they should!
Love the video keep up the good work
This country just keeps getting worse and worse . Soon we will all by living in tiny cubes/huts .
Illidan Stormrage who would you like to see in power?
Yeap this basically like living in a trailer, except now its quirky so it can be marketed to hipsters without them feeling like they are lower class for it. Sad to be honest
Illidan Stormrage no ways it's either America or China. And I doubt any one without yellow skin wants to see The Chinese in power.
I would like to see anybody who have the guts to get money out of politics because it is fucking up everything...
thats basically how we live in england tbh
This looks a good alternative for young couples. But I wouldn't raise my kids there. Neither would I think about it when old. I guess its main advantage is the saving you make after a few years.
Financial freedom.
Do they have wifi on a bus
mikey finch my exact thought
Yes they do.
This must be a such life-changing learning experience !
I grew up living in a renovated Bus, travelling around the British isles. When I was a child the public looked down on this alternative style of living, police and local governments would make life hard for "Travellers"... I'm glad times have changed
great story guys :)
Love it. Here is your new version of a grassy lawn and white picket fences.
Great Story guys, doing the same thing here in Aus :)
Yeah, I don't think i'll be buying a home till im in my early 40s . . . . . true story.
THRIQUILLED yeah me too, i'm gonna live with my parents until they cick me out and then i'm gonna find a nice psychiatric institution.
by the time you're 40 houses will cost $1 trillion.
Nevermind. 3 year old foreclosed homes in houston. . . . is gon be aight fam!!!!
I want to do this and travel and see the world
looks wonderful. Awesome place to park, some just park in parking lots in city.
so inspiring.
i wished for Andrew to speak too.. though i didn't mind the calm. soothing texture of Julie's either.
what's the name of their kid/mongrel?
well whenever they start having their own (hooman) kids, things will again need to be re-looked at, second bus? trailer? or an actual home somehow in a more sombre part of the country!
I would LOVE to live in a small house. Twocaveats...1. That the dwelling be a single story dwelling.. I have terrible knees, and I DO NOT want to be climbing up and down on a regular basis..
and down stairs..And number 2... The bathroom and kitchen areas must be FARRRRRRR apart from each other.. I've seen small houseswhere the Kitchen and Crapper areas are EXTREMELY CLOSE.. :O*.. Gross
Superb
I like how they think, unique way how to explore\enjoy the life
God bless you both. Beautiful Couple.
amazing story! i just bumped into your channel and apparently i make stories like these too. but im just a small youtuber
going up to the country is always a good thing..keep the faith..
While this isn't a lifestyle I want, I can appreciate the lower cost of living. Good for you all. I just bought a D.R. Horton home in New Lenox IL, its more my speed. Your bus looks amazing BTW.
how do they manage the sanitary and electricity system? do they run a generator all the time?
External hook up for electricity 01:19 They're living on the campsite.
State park in Georgia and Chicago are way different. Some people have family responsibility. Still, I would like to have one of those and drive cross-country.
this is a good idea, but it's not practical for everywhere. I was going to get a small used rv but couldn't find a place to park it that wasn't just as expensive as the apartments in the area
what a lovely couple 😍😍 👌
hope you the happy life theat you both deserve
thats so cool
I mean.. you could just move somewhere else - where the cost of living is cheaper, like Minnesota.
Vandergrif its not easy, you need to find a place, have a job, and pay countless living fees i cant believe were not all homeless
this gives me a double feeling. I'm actually very surprised at the creativity and can understand there idea of choosing this life.. But on the other side I find it pretty sad that all over the west young people can't afford housing while working their ass off.
Europe has similar problems but in most countries you can't live of grid. you're forced to have a permanent residence. even if you can't get a mortgage, and the rent has skyrocketed..
Is that legal?
good luck to you ✌
I know a historical figure who was Polish and lived with his family in a circus wagon (19th Century when Poland wasn't independent), after authorities refused to give him a home. To prove this wasn't a place where sb lives, he pushed it a few meters every day. Michał Drzymała - that's his name. And there is a place in Poland named after him - Drzymałowo
where do they parked the bus?
COL is literally so cheap compared to NYC or SF, there is no need to do this in Chicago
They have a channel on CZcams that is fabulous, but they don't post enough!
It's called House Bus.
What's the other Instagram hashtag aside from #tinyhouse they suggested to check?
AndreCorner #vanlife from what I heard 😄
Aleksa M oh ok, seems I kinda heard it right then. Thanks for the info, I already saw #vanlife on Instagram before but I wasn't sre it was that one :) I didn't know about #tinyhouse though!
if you work in theater, how can u pay rent in a big city
oh, i wanted to see how someone could live in a bus in actual chiraq
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don't you need to have an adress to have a job in the US??
Google User NY but no permanent adress/resident registration required?
Rozamunduszek They could have their mail be sent to the park's office. I used to be a groundskeeper for a landscape company and lived in a small shack/apartment in the company's yard and that's how I did it.
MechXican wow where I live you are required to provide an actual adress of habitation to your employer. You can give two adresses: one where you're registered at as a resident in a municipal office and one for your mail if you physically live at a different location; but the residency adress is a must! Like, you can do nothing here without a permanent registered residency! 😞
You can always use your parents address. It's not as though employers do home visits to make sure you're actually living where you say you're living.
yeah but if they transfer your paycheck to your bank account then its not important for getting payed
its sad this is the result of a shrinking middle-class and the united states not having a living wage
Dark Shinobi more like the government allowing rents to sky rocket and allowing prices to go up
Ken uptn and deregelazation of wall street
Obamas legacy
The partridge family !
Lovly
Living simple is the way to go.
I'd live there . it's great
It's 1F outside right now. How the hell are they living in a bus in Chicago?
"There's so much more to life than paying for stuff"
the fairy lights spoil it tho.
The rich must get richer.
***** You need proof that a greater share of the wealth is being concentrated at the top? Any official statistics will give you that.
***** I don't know where to begin, the answer is so obvious.
***** What do you want me to proof? That the rich continue to get richer? That the US middle class is shrinking? That salaries are stagnant as productivity goes up?
There is a great deal of information on this site: inequality.org/
But any Google search will returns many great sources. I almost feel like I've been asked to proof the sky is blue.
I wonder if he gets to decide anything that happens in his life haha
Anne Hathaway!
There is definitely cheap housing in chicago thats not in the hood. In canaryville I had 2 bedroom apartments that were $700. This is nonsense, they just wanted a overly liberal lifestyle. Could have just brought a 3-4 flat with the $10000 and rented the other 3 units and would have never paid rent. Thats what I did
"overly liberal lifestyle" Liberal as in liberty, liberty as in to be free. You're using it as a pejorative.
I think many people would not consider 700$ a month cheap. If they have student loans to pay back an extra 700$ a month would be a lot of saved money. A lot of people don't want to essentially start a second business through renting. They just want to live and pay a rent that isn't so expensive.
I think many people would not consider 700$ a month cheap. If they have student loans to pay back an extra 700$ a month would be a lot of saved money. A lot of people don't want to essentially start a second business through renting. They just want to live and pay a rent that isn't so expensive.
Chicago Writer the fact that u needed to rent out the other spaces is part of the problem. many ppl are having to rent out a portion of their home, basement, backyard etc just to help with paying off their home. that's kinda sad of u ask me.
Buy a flat with ten Grand? Really? Where? That's not enough down payment for a one bedroom apartment. What neighborhoods are you guys living in?
$1000-1200 is toooo much. 7000$ a year for property tax lol. Shouldn’t have to pay a property tax in the first place
Same as an RV but cheaper
you can't possibly hope to live in a bus and grow old with it...
This isn't "amazing". This is the degradation of the American dream. Two hard working young people finding they can't make it in a major city. It's a critique of us.
So where do these poor people get money to buy the bus then spending to renovate it?
First!
No reason such a beautiful woman should have to live that way. Underutilization embodied....
I get the feeling that she cut his tongue out of his mouth. And made him cook it.
The guy looks a little psycho. Be careful. Don't get murdered and found in a trailer park.
I would convert the bus to run electric.
I hate them I wanna live like that 😢😢
Tax free?
or maybe move out of Chicago?
Why would you want to live in Chicago
Chicago is a city of have and have nots
#AboutThatBusLife
A very rare woman
#IMWITHHER hehe busgate
You don't have to live in Chicago, just move somewhere that has a lower cost of living. She said that they had 10k saved up, that more than enough to move pretty much anywhere. Living in a bus seems pretty extreme because they couldn't afford chi town.
Lets do the math!
Both of you work 40hrs/week at lets say at 20/hr so that's $20/hr*40hr/week*2 ppl*50 weeks/hr (assuming two weeks vacation) and let's adjust for taxes say 25% that's around 60k per year. I can name at least 50 cities in the lower US that you can live very comfortably for 60k/yr, trust me. Don't even tell me that there are not any jobs out there that you can make $20/hr.
Brandon D I agree with you. I live in Chicago, and I pay 1200 for a big apartment in a quiet neighborhood. There are decent rents, unless you want to live in the popular/yappys neighborhoods, which is stupid unless you work there. But even there the rent is about 1800 and up. If you want low rent don't move to a big city. Or live in a bus :)
Inspired from Parakkumthalika, Malayalees ?
She is _far_ from convincing.
Within 1 year from now she'll be out, he'll still be a dancing park ranger.
I hope for a different outcome, but it's highly doubtful.
Why is this newsworthy and any different than the many people that have been living in mobile homes for years? Because they're hipsters?
They think Chicago has a high cost of living? Chicago is insanely cheap for a large city. Also the problem isn't "cost" the problem is income. If you can't afford to live in Chicago there are a lot of places you can't afford to live. Because honestly the income/cost ratio for chicago is very good. Even people on BS jobs make $15 an hour..
and they also cook meth there
I Like Curry
so hippies live in a bus instead of a trailer park
Or move away from Chicago and go move somewhere cheap for living
Damm she talks so low and quiet.
She's a low talker
FBI, OPEN UP
Homeless
maybe she's the problem by not finding a job.
Uoeno Woohoo they both worked 60 Hours a week