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Blaqthourne posted...

Various people posted...

Just buy a nice RV and be on the road.
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So basically I'd be able to rent a hotel room for a year,
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could prepay for a year at a hotel.
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Go live in a nice hotel
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Pay for a year round hotel
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You could just pay for a year long cruise
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live in a van full of hookers

I'm pretty sure these would all mean you're not homeless.

A hotel isn't a home, unless you own the place or something. Homeless means you don't have a residence. And somebody stuck living in an RV -- ie, their car -- is pretty clearly homeless by most definitions.

darkknight109 posted...

If we're being strict with our definition of homeless, I'd just buy a storage yard and set up one or more of the containers as a makeshift home - that *does* fit pretty much every definition of "homeless", since it's not a proper home or area deemed suitable for human habitation. The rest of the storage yard could be used to store all my various belongings. Paying for utilities would be a challenge, unless they would let me pay one lump sum at the start of the year (alternatively, if we're being cheeky with the definition, I'll pay someone $100k - or whatever the approximate amount owed is, plus a slight bonus - at the start of the year to pay my bills for me), and you'd have to be careful not to get busted by the cops (since, depending on where you live, what your doing may violate zoning and housing ordinances), but other than that you're golden.

But then you'd own a residence. If you can have a formal mailing address (rather than mailing to another party who delivers it to you), you're kinda not homeless.

darkknight109 posted...

Honestly, without exploiting loopholes like that, these situations are both almost unlivable. Being unable to spend your money more than 5x in a year makes paying any sort of basic bills almost impossible, with groceries being the biggest issue. Your money would buy you almost nothing worthwhile if you can't buy storage to keep things in, so you'd effectively be poor and homeless, given that your money is almost worthless with those restrictions.

Gift cards aren't really a loophole, though. That's a legit spending of money on the cards. Taking out a credit card and letting the balance run, on the other hand, *is* something of a loophole although it does fit the context just fine because if you're limited to pulling your money from a fund then you would only be pulling from the fund to pay your card at intervals.
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