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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Shostakovich on December 22, 2018, 07:01:30 PM

Title: Living in motels
Post by: Shostakovich on December 22, 2018, 07:01:30 PM
Has anyone here ever tried this? What's it like? What's the cheapest way you can do this? Thinking of trekking across America (or other countries) in extended stay hotels. Looking at you, Jack Remington!
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: BlueTsunami on December 22, 2018, 07:08:40 PM
Fuck motels, camp sites 4life. Motels can get prohibitively expensive when used consistently over the course of over a week. Maybe look into some form of couch surfing?
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 22, 2018, 07:34:43 PM
Pitch a tent.
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Trent Dole on December 22, 2018, 07:43:00 PM
Pitch a tent.
:beavis
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 22, 2018, 10:56:57 PM
Extended stay hotels aren't expensive. I'd imagine you can mix in some decent 3 star spots (like a Marriott Residence Inn) alongside cheaper extended stay motels. Just so you don't feel like you're slumming it all the time.

I like nice hotels obviously but there's something about staying in a cheap hotel and briefly seeing people come and go from all types of backgrounds, stories etc. Ordering cheap Chinese food and talking to some random dude who tells you Vietnam stories.
:whew
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: BlueTsunami on December 22, 2018, 11:48:53 PM
I stayed in a motel in the colorado Texas border. The room next to me had this car, some beat up camaro. It was truly creepy. The thing had this aura about it. Just wrong. Thats the coolest shit about motel slumming. You could be sleeping next door to a hammer based serial killer
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: thisismyusername on December 23, 2018, 12:25:57 AM
I need to be able to work, which means wi-fi and private room (or shared room but with at most, one person). So this is somewhere between hostel hitchhiking and permanent residency.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mobile+wifi+hotspot%2C+Shost+is+an+idiot

You're welcome. :trumps

Note this requires mobile wifi towers in the area, but given most campgrounds are in mobile/cell tower range (keyword: MOST) I highly doubt this would be a problem.

4G should be enough to telecommute depending on what the hell you're doing. But even then, you could use the public library with a VPN or something if you were that desperate. But if an internet connection is something you need for working, doing the couch-surfing thing probably isn't a good idea.
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Transhuman on December 23, 2018, 12:39:21 AM
I usually airbnb. Have I been doing it wrong?
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Bebpo on December 23, 2018, 12:41:07 AM
Wouldn't this be more expensive than rent? Like even a cheap 2 star motel is what, like $70/night these days? $70 x 30 days = $2,100 and you can probably get a place at least as good as a 2 star motel for like <$1,500/month rent, right?

Or rent a room in a house for like $500-700/month.
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: team filler on December 23, 2018, 12:47:34 AM
you doing outcalls too  ::)
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: BlueTsunami on December 23, 2018, 12:49:38 AM
I usually airbnb. Have I been doing it wrong?

The free market finds a way
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: BlueTsunami on December 23, 2018, 01:01:52 AM
What are cabana boy rates? Off season but still
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Transhuman on December 23, 2018, 01:08:19 AM
Is couch surfing just airbnb but I don't pay?
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Momo on December 23, 2018, 01:53:04 AM
where in asia bae? :heart
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Himu on December 23, 2018, 02:09:24 AM
They leave the lights on for you. Seems like a good plan imo.
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Momo on December 23, 2018, 02:30:08 AM
was thinking SK or China
Might do SK later this year, busan and seoul, I figure it's a short hop from Japan anyway
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Momo on December 23, 2018, 03:57:47 AM
4 sure, p.s. China is great, Chinese people not so much lmao
Title: Re: Living in motels
Post by: Snoopycat_ on December 24, 2018, 05:55:30 AM
I've got a friend who went back packing across America. Don't know why. I think he's like one of them Forrest Gump types. Anyway, he told me he got woken up one night by a bunch of raccoons stealing his shit. When he tried to chase them off they mobbed up and gang stomped him. Ended up in hospital. Lol.