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“The challenge of not accumulating more and more things is a central component of minimalist living. Especially with a backpack, you quickly reach a space limit,” Stolley said. “The most important thing is my laptop and my noise-canceling headphones, which at least give me a little privacy on the train.”
After deciding that he wanted to move out of his childhood home to adopt a nomad lifestyle, Lasse Stolley signed up for Germany’s rail discount scheme and bought himself a Bahncard 100, which allowed him to hop on and off any Deutsche Bahn indefinitely. He estimates that this unusual living arrangement has cost him around 10,000 euros per year, which doesn’t sound like much, but is also not the most convenient way to live.

“The early months were tough and I had to learn a lot about how it all worked. Everything was different than how I’d imagined,” the teen said. “Every night I have to make sure that I catch the night train and sometimes I have to reschedule very quickly because it suddenly doesn’t arrive.”

But living on trains also has its perks, as it allows the young nomad to visit virtually every part of Germany, from the sea in the north to the Alps for a nice hike, as well as bustling cities like Berlin and Munich. Everything is just a train ride away, and he has gotten used to traveling approximately 600 miles per day. He estimated he has traveled more than 300,000 miles on trains since leaving his parents’ house.
Lasse gets to hang out in first-class carriages when he’s not working on his laptop and mostly eats at Deutsche Bahn lounges at train stations around the country. Personal hygiene is a bit trickier, as he has to shower in public swimming pools and leisure centers.

Living on trains is not ideal, and 17-year-old Lasse Stolley doesn’t see himself doing it for the rest of his life, but it works for now, as he still has much of Germany to see. Plus, his Bahncard 100 card is still valid for six months.

>>1986079
>Minimalism and resisting the urge to acquire new stuff are an essential part of his lifestyle, as he needs to take everything with him wherever he goes. It’s not always easy, but he has found a way to make it work.
Literal bugman

>>1986083
why do rustics have such an obsession with being surrounded with 5000 kg of trash they bought off temu?

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>>1986079
Somewhere a homeless person in San Francisco or New York is laughing at this amateur dork.

>>1986083
>consooming is bad
>not consooming is also bad
Can you retards make your mind up already

>>1986087
Theyre not, they dont have access to the internet, and most Americans can't fathom that a world outside of le eagle country exists

>>1986084
Boomers are usually desperate to justify their compulsive shopping habits

>>1986084
the fuck is temu?

>>1986079
Say what you want but i think hes pretty based. Autistic for sure but the experience he makes in just a few months will probably shape his whole life.
Learning to stop consooming useless shit is hard for most people.

>>1986131
it doesn't matter, replace "temu" with "walmart" or "tesco" or "amazon" or "ali express". Same shit. Pink faced boomer bitches about how the factory closed and then proceeds to buy the cheapest shit they can find imported directly from china because personal responsibility is only for other people (who should be punished for behaving exactly the same as the boomer because rightoid logic)

>17-year-old has been living on Deutsche Bahn trains for one and a half years
Gee, I didn't know their delays were this bad.

How the hell does he stay in shape? You can’t get much exercise sitting on a train all day. What about fresh air?

>>1986084
How about having a skill or hobby beyond "breathe and eat"?

Lets say theoretically I take a trip to Germany and do this to get out of paying for a hotel. Would I get kicked out of the country?

>>1986503
No, as long as you pay for the tickets nobody will care. But why would you do that, this sounds like literal hell to me.

>>1986079
>17-year-old has been
Damn, I guess he peaked early.

>>1986729
Because hotels are cringe and homelessmoding sounds like fun.

I bet this guy stinks.

>>1986464
Buying stuff isn't a skill or a hobby

>>1986744
yeah, buying train tickets is not a hobby

>shower in public swimming pools and leisure centers
Why doesn't he visit whores with the money he saves on rent?

>>1986202
Charlie on the Deutsche Bahn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsqBtZNBL60

>Child homelessness is le good
All of you, kill yourselves immediately. And who is hiring this mentally defective underage vagrant to do their programming for them? And finally, do you think he’s been molested yet?

>>1986079
>While most 17-year-olds are only just beginning to consider the idea of leaving the nest
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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>>1986079
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>>1986079
>Personal hygiene is a bit trickier, as he has to shower in public swimming pools and leisure centers.

Imagine the smell.

>>1986079
>self employed coder
bullshit
niggas with a whole ass coding degree are broke how tf is he doing it

>>1992774
With jobs like that it's all about references and work history. The degree means almost nothing unless it's harvard or MIT and even there, it just gets you an interview

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>>1987505
>article about young boy adventuring around his country
>immediately jump to dreaming about molestation
What the fuck is wrong with you ?

>>1992458
I always thought it was a war crime that Truman insisted they must treat their water with oestrogen.

>>1992874
Agreed. His grandfather, who probably sacrificed his life for the fatherland on the Eastern Front, would die again out of sheer shame if he could see this basedcuck of a grandson now - i bet he also got all the clotshots.

He's not having sex

>>1997048
You mean hes not showering before or after sex. Maybe washes his hands.

>>1997048
Don't hands count?

>>1992774
Dude's probably "self employed" coder for his parents of aunt/uncle's business. Also not stated: Trust fund was given to him at 17 of only 600,000 Euros.

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>>2000417
Having direct access to the trust fund is not necessary to have a big impact on one's early life. One need only understand that no matter how badly one fucks up, one has something upon which back to fall. This is why the rich can be "entrepreneurs", they will always have infinite respawns while the rest of us avoid risk because one fuckup is the end.

>>1986732
It is fun. I've done this (with the deutschlandticket even so with less comfy/slower/shorter regional trains instead of the expresses this guy lives on) to get across germany for free or almost free and it's kind of hellish but it's a fun adventure. Do it anon

>>2000494
>deutschlandticket
gesundheit

>>1986098
can you make a nuanced argument for once?

>>1986463
>How the hell does he stay in shape?
not eating like a fat fucking pig. you can stay thin sitting down all day if you do this too.

>>1986087
Bold of you to assume that their crackbrains haven't made them piss and shit themselves so much that they cease all motor functions.

>>1992458
Nice titties
>>2003169
You still need exercise. If you don't you end up a skinny weak fag with tits oh wait hang on a minute

>>2000421
i had a good buddy in college who dated a girl from an extraordinarily wealthy west coast lumber baron family. at their yearly family get together all the younglings would pitch their entrepreneur ideas to the adults and many of them would end up getting funded. most failed, of course, but failure is part of being a serial entrepreneur, or even the average small business owner. as you say, it's obviously easier to take these sorts of business risks when you know it won't ruin you financially or really have any effect at all. never forget that the vast majority of wealth is inherited, not won from scrapping in the free market

there's an interview with him today in the most serious German newspaper FAZ. some takeaways
>he mostly eats the free food in the DB Lounges
>after 1 year he upgraded to first class, he plans to do this one more year to get to 1 million km on rails.
>during his first year he slept on an air mattress in the luggage rack
>he washes his clothes in the DB Lounge and then hangs his clothes in the train to dry
>he usually works in the lounges for an IT start-up because of the free wifi. the wifi in the trains is too slow.
>he sleeps in the ICE trains that run through the night, somehow he managed not to get mugged so far, as theft is a common occurrence.
>he showers in indoor swimming facilities in Munich and Berlin.
>there are about 10 other people doing this

sauce:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/bahncard-100-statt-wohnung-wie-lasse-stolley-seit-fast-2-jahren-im-zug-lebt-19849724.html
if you don't know how to bypass paywalls, then just stand next to the first class of a ICE train, connect to the wifi and download the FAZ newspaper for free.

>>2008180
there's a joke in here somewhere about how germans are so obedient that even the railroad bums pay their fares but I'm too lazy to construct it

>>1986098
Being obsessed in either direction is bad. Being a hoarder or a braindead npc who only exists to buy product are sins of excess, but people who go out of their way to be “minimalist” are also retarded. Honestly, I’ll take the npc over the guy who gets stressed because he didn’t measure his new toothbrush and it’s half a gram heavier and takes up an extra cc of space compared to the old one.

>>1986176
You're mentally ill

>>2017727
true

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>>1986464
>beyond eating
That’s all average suburban hogs know

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>>1986079
If he was black you would call him a lazy nigger

What a lame dork

>>1987505
He is living a more interesting life than you ever will while 80% of it is still ahead of him.
>molested on well-staffed public transportation
It's a first-world country, not Hungary or America.

>>1986176
>directionbrain
You almost had a point until you played the retard card

>>2023420
You're only mad because he described (You)r own behavior to the t

>>1986079
grim

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>>2017735
I can no longer see helicopter shots of stroads without thinking of the west hollywood shootout

>>2030799
Your mind is broken. Stop watching stupid youtube videos.

>>1986176
>I get caught speeding sometimes so we should get rid of traffic laws
See how dumb that sounds? I'm neither right-wing or a boomer but you make shit arguments. People can engage in plenty of destructive/sinful things and still recognize the need to legislate or even forbid them to prevent excesses from forming. I've drank on my bike, too, doesn't mean I think it ought to be legal, just that at the time I deemed the fun outweighed the risk*price of the ticket which I would have paid without objection had I got one.

>>2035400
>random angry rant about his alcoholism problem
ok but what does that have to do with hoarder boomers and compulsively buying cheap garbage

>>2030799
North Hollywood*

The difference between him and everyone else on those trains is that they're all going somewhere, while he's going nowhere.

>>2021062
>>2026001
>>2028096
stop bumping this garbage, nobody gives a fuck

>>2037430
ouch

>>2037455
bump

This is how snow piercer started, right?

10k euros would get him a nice house in name places in Europe if he really works online, probably even Germany

>>1986080
>He estimates that this unusual living arrangement has cost him around 10,000 euros per year, which doesn’t sound like much
That's about the same as my yearly rent for a two bedroom apartment. The fuck is the point of being "homeless" if you're not at least saving money?

>>1986100
americans living in vans under bridges probably think the average german is jealous of their existence

>>2037455
who hurt you?

>>2046702
Thanks for bumping my thread

>>2005304
>extraordinarily wealthy west coast lumber baron family
Weyerhaeuser

>>1986080
>paying to be a bum
grim

>>2046945
indeed

>>1992774
He only needs 10k a year.
That's like 40 bucks a day.

>>2000417
he was given a trust fund, what a gay articl ethen

>>2051417
how exactly does trust fund work
sorry ESL and also idk
I read the term alot on 4ch
its always associated with envy apparently but yeah anyways so how does that work whats the difference to rich people just giving their kids money

>>1986080
>a Bahncard 100, which allowed him to hop on and off any Deutsche Bahn indefinitely.
>his Bahncard 100 card is still valid for six months.

Well, which is it?

>>2051419
>whats the difference to rich people just giving their kids money
It's not, "trust fund" is just a shorthand way to say that.

>>2051428
okay next question:
How does wealth always suddenly invalidate everything people do? Not that I ever thought this guy is doing anything cool but there seems to be plenty of people who think so and that's okay.
Now what would change if the guy was a poor. He's still doing what he is doing. Are people just too attached to their idea of rich ppl doing hookers and blow all day and feel their beliefs are threatened when they find put some rich guy actually is a high speed hobo?

>>2051442
If the dude was poor he couldn't be doing what he is doing because he couldn't afford it isn't that obvious

A lot of you people don't seem to get that this is a country with a strong social safety net so you don't necessarily have to have wealthy parents to take slight risks, and many things that are seen as high stakes gambles in america (like college tuition or starting a small business) are done casually because they won't become destitute hobos living under a bridge with all their teeth falling out like what happens in america if your dice roll goes badly

Americans will act like they love innovation and entrepreneurship and shit, and then they'll turn around and sabotage the systems that encourage those kinds of things, so that only the ultra-wealthy can try new things, and then when only ultra-wealthy people end up starting successful businesses Americans interpret that as divine proof that feudalism is the True Way and hand over everything to Saint Thiel and Lord Musk

>>1986079
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>>1986082
How the fuck is he not being shipped home by the police when minor's curfew starts at 22:00?

>>2051902
I don't know anon but he is surely 18 now as this thread is a year old.

>>2051911
Fuck me, didn't realize. Am new to /n/, wasn't aware that this board is slow.

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>>1986079
Does he old slower because he lives in constant speed?

>>2052837
He is not going fast enough to make much difference.

>>2051902
>minor's curfew starts at 22:00
He's not 7.

>>2051599
It's cheaper than renting the cheapest poorfag apartment.

>>2052874
DB 1st class train pass costs 6000 bucks a year, dude. You can get nice two-room apartments for that money, if you don't need to live in a city.

>>2054920
I'd rather live on board a train than an apartment in an abandoned coal town surrounded by AFD inbreds

>>2056728
Not everyone is a chai latte drinking hipster from berlin

>>1986079
Nomad urban explorer phase in your late teens is all fun and games until your body croaks into your 20's.
>>2037430
/thread

>>1992774
fat titties >>1992458

>>2060499
"Minimalism" has always been a way for rich people to quietly brag about their liquidity and stable cash flow

>>1992458
You laugh, but this is peak efficiency: whenever he's feeling peckish he can just squeeze some milk out of one of his mantits instead of having to buy an overpriced snack on the train.

>>2051911
>this thread has been living on a train for the past one and a half years

>>2058074
the chai latte hipsters are less likely to murder you as part of some weird initiation rite

>>1986463
I don't imagine he's on the same train all the time, he probably swaps trains and hangs around at stations too. I did something similar on a trip from germany to italy. Spend the day exploring the city, spend the night on the train.

>>2042250
That's counting heat, utilities, food etc.

>>2037455
I disagree

>>2064859
>the chai latte hipsters are less likely to murder you
Unless you get their pronouns wrong

>>1986463
He gets off the train to walk around the stops sometimes

>>2051914
glacial even
i wonder how many anons posting in this thread have moved on to saint peter's marshaling yard
t. from /tv/

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>>1986079
>to embark on a unique train-hopping adventure
>>1986087
>Somewhere a homeless person in San Francisco or New York is laughing at this amateur dork.

Came to post this, I took issue with referring to his lifestyle as "train-hopping". I mean, he's literally earning money by writing computer code and then he's spending the money on train tickets and food. That's not "train-hopping", that's just being a passenger.

Train-hopping implies that you are hopping onto trains in secret and riding them undetected. People still do this in the US and in other countries, although I assume it's not that popular in Europe given their dilapidated freight rail system.

I've met plenty of American youth like this guy but instead of making money online and buying tickets, they just ride the trains for free and consumer alcohol and drugs that they purchase using money they acquired by begging.

>>1986463
>>1986463
>>2003169
>not eating like a fat fucking pig. you can stay thin sitting down all day if you do this too.

He's also in Europe and they have more rigorous food safety laws. The food companies there aren't literally trying to make you fat so that you buy more food

>>2067756
The USA technically also has the largest rail network on Earth but it's mostly used for Freight

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>>2068734
>He's also in Europe and they have more rigorous food safety laws.
They don't. The US ranks 3rd in the entire world regarding food safety standards. The FDA actually bans more food dyes than the EU does too. You were fed misinformation from tikslop by idiots who just don't want to take accountability for their own obesity and need to blame the government

>>2021306
How's spending most of your time in a train an "interesting" life? I don't see the appeal unless you are one of those train autists

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>>1986079
https://youtu.be/gSqMAADNKA8?si=15u9QjYr0QSEWrmN

>>1986079
He got off the train thougheverbeit?

>>1986100
of course they have the internet, they have Obama phones. Lefties can’t give away the hard earned money of the middle, and lower middle class, fast enough to useless drug addicts and hobos.

>>2071201
damm, I forgot about that meme

>>1986079
>17 years old
>not living at home
This must be fake news. He's of the sel-important/coddled generation. Worse than hippies.

>>2071703
He's 19 now though