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 No.36611

So I'm about to be homeless. I'm in Europe. No family, no friends, nowhere to go really.

What is the most schway manner I can live my life?

 No.36614

Pretend to be an immigrant and leech of your host country


 No.36616

>>36614

It's not that easy. I need to be a have a permanent place of domicile and a job for that. Refugees are able to get welfare because they are "refugees". I'm going to try to find work but I literally can't get any welfare in the near future anywhere


 No.36622

Live the mochilero's life


 No.36626

>>36616

How white are you?

If you are at least mediterranean tier you could pass as a really white "Syrian" (which really are from plenty of other Middle Eastern countries) and claim your name as Omar Abdullah.


 No.36628

>>36626

Pretty much white as white can be - light brown hair and green eyes, pretty white skin. I would never pass as an Omar Abdullah

At best a Turk (from maybe really western parts), but identities are not easy to fabricate these days as opposed to the past. Identity fabrication is extremely expensive in our time. I am almost broke. I have nothing.


 No.36629

>>36626

Also even if I were to claim refugee status from Syria with no documents/etc. I would have to make up some sort of story about where I was born, etc. and while I can actually read a little arabic of the Qur'an (long story), I do not speak Arabic which would instantly out me as not who I claim to be


 No.36640

>>36629

You might want to consider a homeless/youth center in your town. Basically and community agency and food center. Not schway, I know.


 No.36648

>>36611

This might be completely unfeasible, I have no experience being homeless.

>Dumpster dive behind electronics shops

>Do so some research at your local public library about which devices/cables/dongles are worth the most

>Sell said devices from a carpet


 No.36669

>>36648

I wouldn't count on it as a source of income but it would be something. You'd have to put in a lot of work & probably dumpster other places.


 No.36672

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>>36611

Paraphrasing Ned Stark, winter is coming and you wouldn't wanna spend it outside. Just check houses with multiple apartments around the city locate your target and when they open the doors search for places you could sleep in, usually places underneath stairs or basements, no one will notice you with some luck, if discovered or if people start getting suspicious try your luck again in a new building.

Live in a hostel, I did it, not in London but in continental Europe (link cancerous but related)

https://archive.is/Y4aak

I did that, I used to live in a youth hostel, not the ones in the city center where all the nice people go, no. Go to the seedy ones, the ones where cheap prostitutes take care of their clients but make sure it has wifi (to search for jobs and cheap housing). I lived there through all the winter and took a job answering phones, customer support. Dumpster diving is illegal in most countries in Europe but do it anyway. You may and will find some goods that can be sold afterwards and some food. Broken electronics can be sold for a very handsome price and no one asks too many questions about them. Also craigslist or similar pages, check them, lots of cheap or free stuff there also you can sell your shit there. After a while I was able to live in my own apartment, got a better job and I could finally pay the bills. I'm still poor but I'm no longer homeless.


 No.36673

Find an abandoned house and move in. Keep your setup small and only as little as you need. Do not use the front door ever. Do not allow light to escape the windows at night. Steal electricity from somewhere nearby with an extension cord. Steal wifi if possible or use public wifi when you go out. Dumpster dive for food and equipment. Sell stuff you dive online locally. Take pictures. Post them here.


 No.36693

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Does your country not have a Department of Housing to assist you? If there's a chance I'll go homeless, I've just gotta rock up to them and ask, usually they can put me in emergency temporary housing until we can sort out something more permanent.

Sign up for whatever government benefit program you can if there are any. Even if it only nets out to a couple of bucks, it's better than nothing.

If those are not applicable, keep your smartphone. Put your resume on it. This is advice I learned from formerly homeless people - smartphones are all you need to give the illusion of stability to potential employers.

Put your resume on it, send it off with free Wi-Fi in fastfood joints. Charge it there, too. It gives you a number for employers to contact you with. You can successfully be connected to the world through it, although avoid facebook because they'll drain your credit with autoplay videos.

Have some water bottles ready to collect water, handwashing sink water is the next best thing to a shower, and if you get an interview you'll need to be your cleanest. Always keep some coins for an emergency cleaning at a laundry mat if you can find one. If not, learn how to clean them with just water and whatever soap you can get from a public restroom and dry them without shrinking.

Newspaper will keep you warm if you scrunch it up and put it inside your clothing, not flat and over the top of you like they do in hollywood films. Always try to have some duct tape handy too - that shit fixes everything, including rips in clothing that would drain heat.

If you can squat in a home, do it. Stick a room with as little window exposure as possible, seal the windows with duct tape if you can find any. Steal power from your neighbors, even if you can only do it at night - still trying to keep consumption minimal.

Alcohol dehydrates you. As tempting as it is, it won't warm you. Drugs start off cheap and are fun but before you know it they're not cheap and you're addicted. Seriously, addiction will creep up on you like Big Boss in a darkness party.

Lastly, as corny as it sounds, hope goes a long way. State of mind influences us in subtly ways that other people can pick up on even if they aren't aware of it. Don't undersell yourself on your resume, and list skills and attributes on it as well. If you don't have any confidence that things will get better it will radiate from you and others will pick up on it, and sadly employers aren't in the business of taking pity.

Hope this helps. Take care anon, I hope you find a way out of this soon.


 No.36708

>>36693

>Does your country not have a Department of Housing to assist you?

I am homeless in another country that is not the one of my citizenship (i'm a citizen of the UK). There's no chance they'd help a non-citizen. I don't want to return to the UK and even if I wanted to, I don't have the brouzouf to afford the ticket back and there's nothing for me there. No friends, family, nothing.

>Sign up for whatever government benefit program you can if there are any

Same thing.

>Put your resume on it, send it off with free Wi-Fi in fastfood joints. Charge it there, too. It gives you a number for employers to contact you with. You can successfully be connected to the world through it, although avoid facebook because they'll drain your credit with autoplay videos.

Good idea. Thanks for this. I don't use facebook anyway

>Have some water bottles ready to collect water, handwashing sink water is the next best thing to a shower, and if you get an interview you'll need to be your cleanest. Always keep some coins for an emergency cleaning at a laundry mat if you can find one. If not, learn how to clean them with just water and whatever soap you can get from a public restroom and dry them without shrinking.

Good ideas. Thanks again, chummer

>Lastly, as corny as it sounds, hope goes a long way. State of mind influences us in subtly ways that other people can pick up on even if they aren't aware of it. Don't undersell yourself on your resume, and list skills and attributes on it as well. If you don't have any confidence that things will get better it will radiate from you and others will pick up on it, and sadly employers aren't in the business of taking pity.

It doesn't sound "corny". It sounds reasonable and I've found over the years that . Frankl wrote a lot about hope and survival that is really good to read for anyone who suffers from mental illness (e.g. depression) or not. He survived a concentration camp and brought his knowledge of hope/survival relationship into psychology

>>36672

> winter is coming and you wouldn't wanna spend it outside.

Yeah, this is gonna be interesting. The winters here are death so it's gonna be an adventure for sure.

>Live in a hostel, I did it, not in London but in continental Europe

Which country, if you don't mind me asking ?

>>36673

>Find an abandoned house and move in. Keep your setup small and only as little as you need. Do not use the front door ever. Do not allow light to escape the windows at night. Steal electricity from somewhere nearby with an extension cord. Steal wifi if possible or use public wifi when you go out.

Yep, grat ideas. I can't promise anything (due to the uncertain nature of my situation), but I'll try to keep you guys updated.


 No.36710

>>36708

> I've found over the years that .

whoops

> ".. hope is extremely important"


 No.36711

>>36708

>Which country, if you don't mind me asking ?

Germany (east) and I did the same in Czech Republic before going back to my home country (similar situation as yours apparently). Hostels in Germany do have have a max. day stay policy but in reality it is flexible. Just talk to the manager and when they realize you're an ok person they will allow you become a long term resident. I was lucky on my fifth try and like I said before the ones farther away from the center are the most likely to let you stay. Mine was next to a gas station.


 No.36733

>>36708

>I am homeless in another country that is not the one of my citizenship (i'm a citizen of the UK).

Visit the country you're in's UK Embassy if you can. Explain to them your circumstances and they might be able to get you back to the UK at least.


 No.36738

>>36733

He doesn't want to go back to UK.


 No.36757

>>36738

If the choice is going back to a country you don't like or potentially freezing to death come the winter, I think it's time to swallow whatever point of contention you have and just go.


 No.36759

>>36708

what country are you in?

how connected are you with local punk/crust/homeless/art scene?

how tech savvy are you?

what other skills do you have?

how tight is your asshole/gag reflex?


 No.36980

Thinkpad as your main computer, get a hiking backpack, charity clothes but have a nice warm coat/jacket, and sell computers or do odd jobs for food brouzouf. Fast food places are usually fine to bum in during your down time in the day at night I'd say find somewhere well lite like a nice upper class neighborhood or a community center and chill there.


 No.37031


 No.37068

If you're worried about winter couldn't you just hitchike/trainhop down to southern europe? As I understand it they won't stop you because of the whole EU thing.


 No.37075

>>36693

This is such a fucking shazboty picture. Why do people have to take cool drawings and make them more "real" or tangible with their disgusting egos.. he literally had to PUT ON that device… and TAKE that picture.. how depressed is he if he had to do that. Fucking vanity.


 No.37102

OP here, I have access to the internet through the library. I'm in Finland and the days are getting colder and colder. I managed to stay at someone's place for a night but mostly I'm sleeping in playground equipment, etc.

My story is in short is that I attempted to get my ex back with virtually nothing to my name and sadly my gamble failed miserably. Now with no more aces up my sleeve, I'm here and need to find work somehow. But it's not easy as I'm sure you can understand. I'm a qualified English teacher but jobs in this field are virtually non-existent at this time of the year.

>>36759

>what country are you in?

Finland

>how connected are you with local punk/crust/homeless/art scene?

0%

>how tech savvy are you?

I am quite good with computers but I'm not /tech/ good. For example, my programming skills are next to nothing

>how tight is your asshole/gag reflex?

N/A~

>>37068

>If you're worried about winter couldn't you just hitchike/trainhop down to southern europe?

I'm thinking of this as an option. Though, "train hopping" is almost impossible nowadays. I have some brouzouf and I need to figure out what to do before it all runs out.

If there is anyone in the EU that wouldn't mind lending their sofa for a few days to a 26 year old guy down on his luck, that would be wonderful. I have no family or friends and I'm basically a nomad in this world. Otherwise, thanks everyone for listening to my interesting situation.


 No.38316

>>37102

I am soon going back to Sweden, I am also in Finland.. Maybe I can host you 1-2 nights, showers & free meal

I hitch-hiked to Malaga and back to Sweden on very low budget. see → hitchwiki

Cost me 60 € to get down, I hitch-hiked and used couch-surfing.

Another survival tip is to dumpster-dive for food behind supermarkets → see trashwiki

Eat porridge, it is cheap and you can eat much from 1kg.

When you are hungry cold water & poridge will taste good.

Best luck, you will make it, and enjoy it meanwhile. Don't go to Spain or Italy, they got a nasty attitude towards hitch-hikers




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