I don’t understand what you mean by entire lifestyle. The article and discussion is about semi-homeless people living in their car. Are you imagining your family and friends doing this specifically to be leeches and you’re worried about subsidising their fun, no-responsibility lifestyle, like they are on an vacation or something?

You mentioned it yourself: A nomadic lifestyle.

I am perfectly happy lending a hand to friends and family for whom the sky decided now was their turn to get dropped on. Shit happens to the best of us.

But that's a different story to enabling someone's lifestyle. My hospitality doesn't extend that far, let alone generosity.

Unless you're somehow insinuating that being homeless is a lifestyle, which I would vehemently disagree with. Even if there was (and there probably is) a lifestyle that doesn't involve a home, it's most certainly not called being homeless.

I thought in this thread we were discussing homelessness and a persistent nomadic lifestyle as a result of a cost of living crisis? It sounds like you must be referring to something people are choosing to do for fun or specifically because they want to take your hard earned stuff from you. In which case.. sure? Don’t give them your stuff then? But nobody said the magic word “lifestyle” before you called them leeches.

> We are seeing the re-emergence of a form of persistent nomadism, as cost-of-living crisis forces people to abandon (or escape from) the liabilities which come from sedentary living. The cost to kit out and maintain a vehicle is not trivial but almost certainly less than keeping up monthly rental or mortgage payments.