Mac Genius living out of his truck by choice.

[spearmint]

I think a lot of people living in cars and vans here in Cally just refuse to move. In the Silicon Valley here PHD's are pulling this stunt because they want it exactly like it used to be. Sorry.

[mikebw]

Hey- living the dream. Nothing wrong with that, right? Some people just have different dreams.

[blusubaru]

You know, I've been thinking about this all morning. The more I think about it, the more I realized how BGNR is right. This kid is a sloth. If he's lived in his truck for a year, then he's saved his $1600/month rent (assuming that even includes utilities, otherwise he was living WAY outside his means), he's saved $19,200 right there. Now, he's lived there for over a year, and he's making over $30k as a Genius (I know, I interviewed for the position). How in the world has he not recovered from his debt yet? It looks as if his tuition isn't that bad (http://www.fullerton.edu/catalog/admissi...eeinfo.asp), about the same as any state school here in the midwest.

[mikebw]

He was paying off the truck too it sounds like. Even if he is debt-free now, it can be hard to go back to spending that kind of money when you are living on your own, relatively "fine".

Perhaps after graduation he will be forced to make a change. If he doesn't have the bathing and internet resources of the university at hand any longer things will become much more difficult.

But hey, people have done much worse things to get ahead in this world. I wouldn't go this direction, but there is some merit to it.

[testcase]

He finished high school two years early and,states: "I've learned that I could set my mind to something and do it," Surprising he hasn't "set his mind" on graduating from college.

[vision63]

How he lives isn't any of our business. He's not on drugs or alcohol so who is he hurting? No one. He's not obligated to give his money to some landlord. It's a free country.

[SteveJobs]

I would think from the way the media practices prying into everyone's lives that it's ALL our business.