Author Topic: Living in motels (Read 2120 times)

shosta · « **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!

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #1 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?

shosta · « **Reply #2 on:** December 22, 2018, 07:16:30 PM »

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.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #3 on:** December 22, 2018, 07:34:43 PM »

Pitch a tent.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2018, 07:43:00 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on December 22, 2018, 07:34:43 PM

Pitch a tent.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #5 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.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #6 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

thisismyusername · « **Reply #7 on:** December 23, 2018, 12:25:57 AM »

Quote from: shosta on December 22, 2018, 07:16:30 PM

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.

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.

Transhuman · « **Reply #8 on:** December 23, 2018, 12:39:21 AM »

I usually airbnb. Have I been doing it wrong?

Bebpo · « **Reply #9 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.

team filler · « **Reply #10 on:** December 23, 2018, 12:47:34 AM »

you doing outcalls too

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #11 on:** December 23, 2018, 12:49:38 AM »

Quote from: Transhuman on December 23, 2018, 12:39:21 AM

I usually airbnb. Have I been doing it wrong?

The free market finds a way

shosta · « **Reply #12 on:** December 23, 2018, 12:55:59 AM »

Quote from: 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.

You can get a lower rate for stays over a month at extended-stay places. But yeah, it might be more expensive. I haven't checked bnb pricing yet... The issue with renting a room is that it's hard to do a lease under 6-months. I'm trying to do one, two month stays. I think this might be more doable in Asia.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #13 on:** December 23, 2018, 01:01:52 AM »

What are cabana boy rates? Off season but still

Transhuman · « **Reply #14 on:** December 23, 2018, 01:08:19 AM »

Is couch surfing just airbnb but I don't pay?

shosta · « **Reply #15 on:** December 23, 2018, 01:15:06 AM »

mobile hotspot is a good call, thnxbby.

Momo · « **Reply #16 on:** December 23, 2018, 01:53:04 AM »

where in asia bae?

shosta · « **Reply #17 on:** December 23, 2018, 02:03:48 AM »

was thinking SK or China

Himu · « **Reply #18 on:** December 23, 2018, 02:09:24 AM »

They leave the lights on for you. Seems like a good plan imo.

Momo · « **Reply #19 on:** December 23, 2018, 02:30:08 AM »

Quote from: shosta on December 23, 2018, 02:03:48 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

shosta · « **Reply #20 on:** December 23, 2018, 03:31:41 AM »

I should hit you up around then and see if we can coordinate

Momo · « **Reply #21 on:** December 23, 2018, 03:57:47 AM »

4 sure, p.s. China is great, Chinese people not so much lmao

Snoopycat_ · « **Reply #22 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.

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