Gypsies of the New Millennium by Skip Rorshach Freedman - 2015: A Manual for Practical Independent Nomadic Living

This handbook covers everything you need to know to live on the edge and survive. The author, Skip Freedman has lived the nomadic life in his van for over 10 years. He knows every angle of how to survive in these urban mini-police states. And by the way, a vast preponderance of folks who live nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyles have jobs and work when they need to. As we have said on this website, if you have an indication that you are going to lose your job and not be able to pay your rent or house payment, do not wait for the ax to fall. Do yourself a favor and prepare now. Get a van, RV, or other suitable vehicle now, and trick it out. You will be glad you did.

There are thousands of folks in the Los Angeles area who are living nomadic lifestyles. Most of us work, but we were tanked by the economic collapse that started in 2000 that wiped out the good factory jobs, literally exporting them overseas. It meant that many of us had to get lower paying jobs, and we soon found that after paying rent and bills we were underwater financially. The solution was to cut living expenses: move out of the expensive apartment, get a storage unit, join a health club for showers, and live in a vehicle. There are many articles on gypsycool.com about how to do this, with many more coming. We still work for a living, but have money to spend on what we want, not give it to some landlord for an overpriced roof over our heads.

I wish that everyone could get Skip's book and read it. The print is small to save printing costs, but the information is the best around. As an added bonus, Skip spend several years compiling a fantastic bibliography of books on the subject that he has written about. You can get most of these at your library, even if the library has to order them for you. There is also youtube.com, which has thousands of great videos on the subject of van, nomadic, or semi-nomadic living.