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Comment by jakejake | Hacker News Reader

I don't really know how to feel about this. I certainly respect the guy for being thrifty. At the same time it seems sad that an employee of one of the most successful companies on earth is living in a truck. I know this is a choice he has made and probably isn't technically necessary.

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He works a lot, he wants to go out and party and go to fancy restaurants with the rest of his time, and he has most of the things he would use a house for in his office.

If you compare his life to how he would use an SF-size apartment given his lifestyle (not how you, or someone else would live) it is quite possible he's not really losing all that much. He also has no commute between work and sleep, which is a huge quality of life bonus.

Considering we have a serious homeless and housing problem in the Bay Area and wages outside of tech aren't keeping up with the cost of living I'm not going to feel sad for this guy. Respect the thrifty, but sad? No fuckin way.

Oh, I'm not sad for this guy at all - he's doing this by choice. The sadness is the fact that housing is so unaffordable. The irony is that these successful companies have driven up the price, but the average worker there can barely afford to live there and still have a life. If this is a viable choice for somebody working as a software developer at one of the most successful companies in the world, what hope is there for the ordinary working person?!

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