Originally Posted by
mrbike27
is it possible to living without a home and a car and ONLY have a bicycle with just the clothes on your back.
Plenty of homeless people in Toronto live like that. But they don't smell so good. I wouldn't want to smell like that. I also don't think your coworkers would tolerate that.
However, if you do have a relatively clean and safe place to sleep, as well as a place to bath and wash your clothes somewhere, it's doable.
But why would you want to do that? I need to have at minimum a place to lay my head, a shower and a kitchen and a comfy chair to sit and read, but these "luxuries" can be very cheap.
+1. They don't have to be a "home" though. I knew a grad student in one Canadian university who just lived in his office. Sleep on a little camping mattress under the table, take showers at the university gym. As someone who spent her share of nights in offices on a university campus (not out of necessity but to get more work done), this can be quite a comfortable existence. In a sense it's more peaceful than living in a house/apartment - no neighbours! Though you have to keep a very low profile doing that, for if the administration finds out, they will most definitely try to put a stop to it.
So I don't see why you can't just rent a room. It can be had for a piddling amount - worth the security and the peace of mind, in my 'umble.