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It would be more interesting if he talked about the details of his lifestyle, for instance showers, etc.

Also, it seems like sneaking into youth hostels without paying crosses some kind of ethical line; sleeping in your office at university is a different situation altogether.

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He mentions that he'll write those 'details' in another blog post, but I agree that it would've been more interesting if he said how he handled that.

Yeah, the part of not paying for the youth hostels just for the sake of not paying comes across as a cheap person and not really as a things-just-own-you kind of guy.

Anyway, after reading some more of his posts, he just sounds like someone who is full of himself really, with all the stuff about attending underground groups, 'urban exploration' and ninja stealth/lock-picking -- that just reeks elitism...

Reminds me of how I felt reading Kim Stanley Robinson last year. Robinson creates a homeless-by-choice scientist (Frank) in his Washington DC climate trilogy: Forty Days of Rain, Fifty..., Sixty... Frank lives in a little tent high up in a tree in the city park and joins a gym for the showers. He meets up with dumpster-diving Freegans and traditional homeless people. Well, I won't go into the whole story, of course. But I think Robinson did a good job of making Frank a sympathetic character I rooted for. I kind of wondered, though, about the author himself showing off an a ability to write about "underground" living.

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