r/nextfuckinglevel 17h ago

The Transformation of a Van

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u/Royal-Bicycle-8147 17h ago

Pretty awesome as an adventure vehicle. Terrible if you are doing it to be the new trendy homeless.

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u/Yeehaw_Kat 17h ago

People are being homeless as a trend? Being homeless fucking sucks I wouldn't wish this on anyone

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u/zackks 17h ago

It's the new way to homeschool abuse your kids

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u/Sweaty_Explorer_8441 15h ago edited 15h ago

Is it a Utah mormon momfluencer thing. The only time I see these trailers with such mods are truckers(on their job) and the whitetrash momfluencers with 4+ kids all living in such cramped spaces treating a recreational vehicle as not recreational primary residence. Not even a million dollar worth of mods can fix such claustrophobic living spaces for prolonged stay. I would rather live in a yacht with open windows and sea.

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u/Warning_Low_Battery 6h ago

I grew up with 5 siblings, and now have 2 kids of my own as well as like 14 nieces and nephews. I feel qualified to point out that most kids stink if left to their own devices for very long. I guarantee you those rigs smell to high heaven with 4+ kids in that cramped space - especially by the end of a hot day.

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u/AmorphousMess 13h ago

You can bet Hunter, Jayden, Reighfyl and Tragedeigh aren’t getting any vaccines like ever.

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u/CodeNamesBryan 17h ago

If I ever meet a semi normal home school kid...

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u/Earlier-Today 13h ago

I'm sure they exist, but they're going to be the children and well off, well educated, social people.

Gotta have at least one parent staying home with the kids, they need to be smart enough to design good enough lesson plans for each kid and teach them, and they've got to be social enough to give their kids plenty of time to socialize with other kids their age.

That points to having plenty of money so that normal people's problems aren't their problems.

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u/akanix42 16h ago

Hey, I'm a homeschool kid and I'm perfectly weird

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u/TheaBeleva 16h ago

Samesies.
I dunno know why people act like being homeschooled automatically means you were abused. Yes, some abusive parents use homeschooling to isolate their kids (I’m one of those cases, dad wanted to isolate us, mum genuinely wanted us to have a less stressful education) but the homeschooling itself was great.

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u/akanix42 14h ago

My parents were abusive and my mum's primary reason for homeschooling was to shelter us from the devil's influence that we would be exposed to in public schools soooo I'm not exactly a helpful example there lol. My science curriculum tried to teach me that god created the earth a few thousand years ago and my history curriculum was full of lots of errors (but so are many public schools) but the other classes were pretty good 🙃

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u/Big_Iron_Cowboy 15h ago

What type of curriculum did you use?

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u/TarzanSawyer 10h ago

It doesn't matter if it can be a good thing because there's rarely a case where it is a good thing. r/homeschoolrecovery for those whom it can help.

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u/Moiyub 3h ago

yea you know who's really normal is kids who go to public school. in fact thats all it takes to make a kid normal. public school = normal. yup. solid logic.

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u/ErisGrey 3h ago

Observation bias, and why some kids are homeschooled over others.

Many homeschooled kids were/are autistic are were considered problems for the class/school. Neurodivergent people are highly over represented in the school to prison pipeline.

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u/nehrkling 16h ago

Ive met quite a few normal homeschooled kids, and quite a few more absolutely screwed up public school kids. Its almost like good parenting and care matters more than the exact plan of education.

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u/more-potatoes-please 9h ago

Yeah except the lack of standardized regulation and testing from state to state and the lack of contact with mandatory reporters does matter exactly because of bad parents. Screwed up kids in public school still are observed by and interact with adults outside their home on a regular basis and they are still held (ish) to educational standards to make sure they can actually read and do basic math and know actual (ish) history by the time they reach adulthood. Homeschooled kids with bad parents do not have those guardrails and the amount of abuse and educational neglect is staggering in most home school circles. It's one of those situations where I'm sorry it's not fair to those doing it right and for the right reasons m, but the consequences for children of parents who do it wrong or for the wrong reasons are so severe, it must be more tightly regulated and in my view shouldn't even be legal outside of closely monitored edge cases for those with extenuating circumstances. And "i dont want my kid to learn the devil's science or sit next to queers" shouldn't be an extenuating circumstance. 

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u/BobSlydell08 7h ago

You don't need to be able to read to graduate public school anymore sadly 

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u/air_and_space92 15h ago

:waves: Homeschooled myself and weird enough to get 2 STEM masters degrees and work in aerospace. My elementary school was filled with mold the district didn't acknowledge until they quietly sued the architectural firm a decade later and that's why I was taken out of class.

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u/clckwrks 15h ago

Van schooling?

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u/Biggie39 9h ago

It’s not particularly new.

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u/sm753 5h ago

"Hi guys, follow me on a typical day of worldschooling my kids while living in a van full time! Here's my queen sized bed that I sleep in, here's the pull out drawer my kid sleeps in he loves it lol!"

u/Aiyon 49m ago

Closest I've seen is Shayne Topp from Smosh. Dude was homeschooled and a child actor, and somehow turned out well adjusted

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u/ClothboundBrick 10h ago

If you don’t know the name Frederick Taylor Gates than stfu

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u/T-Rex-Hunter 17h ago

That is why they are doing it by living in a glamping van and with the knowledge they can stop at any time.

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u/robogobo 17h ago

You know, “homeless”

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u/fantasticdamage_ 17h ago

If home is where the heart is and they are home less, does that mean they are heart less ?

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u/imago_monkei 7h ago

I don't think the goal of schoolie folks is to cosplay being “homeless”, they just want the freedom to travel and not have to pay a mortgage. They are digital nomads who can work anywhere with Wi-Fi or satellite Internet, so they set up a permanent address with family and move around wherever they want or need to be.

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u/robogobo 3h ago

This isn’t a schoolie. It’s a $100k Mercedes.

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u/Umlunguboy420 12h ago

And so what?

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u/WanderEir 17h ago

they drive around in their "trendy" converted house-vehicles and try and live off of streaming and advertisement revenue. But yeah, the cost to do this is usually in the $50-100K range, as most f the gear used to make these things is specialized and pricey because of it..

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u/DubWyse 6h ago

Price to do this exact thing is probably up there. They definitely went at it in the most expensive way possible. Enclosed trailer conversions and foamies with fewer features (shower, plumbing mostly) can be done for a few thousand, with the most expensive part being the trailer usually.

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u/Umlunguboy420 12h ago

No they live off of turning these vans into RVs for people to buy.

It's a business, you know what that is right?

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u/WanderEir 10h ago

never seen the same people m ake more than 2, their first so-so attempt and their second, final, this is our awesome". Got a link on someone who does do this as their profession? Bespoke home-vanning?

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 8h ago

The original damn video is a couple that does this as their job. Learn to read. It's the first step to building your own wealth.

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u/DengarLives66 16h ago

I lived in a hatchback once, and then a sedan a few years later. I would’ve killed to live in this van.

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u/PlacentaGoblin 15h ago

At least you have 54* upvotes now, and all they have is a $85k+ van, savings, all the insurances including health, and a 4 bedroom house.

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u/Epyon214 13h ago

Living in a van for a few months after selling a 2nd million dollar home means you can spend more time with the kids during their early years of critical development, and you save so much money by having no mortgage you can coast on the profit of the home sale to keep from having a job for awhile. Then the tax accountant guy said there's some loophole, probably, allowing the whole project to be written off as a loss combined with a "sabbatical" credit. Or something, maybe, unsure really.

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u/Tsu_Dho_Namh 9h ago

Remember hippies?

"Reject society, work is prison, don't follow the rules of the man"

I wouldn't say it's back in full force, but being homeless was definitely a trend

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u/sound_judgment 1h ago

Being homeless is only a "trend" because the rates are trending upward because the economy is such shit. These people are not rejecting society and they're not homeless. They just have too much money and like the idea of a cute, kitted out van instead of an RV and they have the means and time to make it a fun "project." They'll use this to take trips a few times a year and spend the rest of it in their very nice house.

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 8h ago

Try being "homeless" in an RV with plenty of gas money and a remote job. Shit's great.

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u/Sassi7997 7h ago

They probably mean those vanlife hipsters.

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u/TorqueWheelmaker 4h ago

It's called "poverty cosplay", and sadly it is indeed a trend.

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u/Mike0621 2h ago

being homeless is fine when you're rich and basically not actually homeless

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u/0202_tihssitidder 16h ago

Many people will opt to live in a van in the USA.

50-year mortgages and $1.5 Million for a 2,000 sqf house? Nope.

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u/ReaperKaze 16h ago

I'm glad I got my 1400sq ft house for less than 100k, I do live a 15 minute drive from shopping, but it's nice and quiet

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u/Unique-Address5002 14h ago

Looks like it's their job. They renovate vans into mobile homes, them sell them.

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u/SaviorSixtySix 10h ago

I would legitimately live in that, but I own a home and that vehicle probably costs as much as my house.

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u/re_Claire 6h ago

This is what I always think. That'd be so fun as a custom campervan/RV, for going on holiday in. But I absolutely would NOT want to live in that.

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u/elchucknorris300 14h ago

New trendy homeless?

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u/wtfVlad 12h ago

All it takes is 1 idiot to be distracted while driving and boom, you're homeless.

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u/aavant-gardee 10h ago

I’ve highly considered living in a 5th wheel, as it would be cheaper than a house. Or even renting at this point.

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u/tecate_papi 9h ago

Showing up to the edge of the homeless encampment in a Mercedes Benz sprinter van converted into a tiny home

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u/Warning_Low_Battery 6h ago

Pretty awesome as an adventure vehicle.

With extremely limited off-road capabilities from those stock tires, stock suspension, and no low range gears on the transmission, any adventures will be almost entirely on paved roads.

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u/Jonatc87 2h ago

I really like the upstairs section. Don't see many van mods that utilise space like that.

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u/Joverby 2h ago

Most homeless people don't have the 1.5 mil or so in assets shown in the video to do this

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u/DoYouLikeWafflezz 16h ago

Literally just buy an rv. Cheaper, less time and effort, and more room. 

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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 13h ago

Yeah but then you don't get to have the fun of designing it yourself so that it's exactly how you want it (and also don't get to make a cool video out of the process). The time and effort is part of the fun

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u/CulturistPionier 14h ago

something about RVs makes me think they are unreliable motors.

maybe its from watching breaking bad

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u/DoYouLikeWafflezz 14h ago

You just gotta keep the batteries charged. 

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u/Flashbang-Meringue 9h ago

the style of RVs with the vehicle integrated should be avoided. Way better to have a separate truck and RV so that way engine repairs don't put your house in the shop.

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u/MezzoSoaprano 15h ago

Adventure vehicle lol

They're not going to offroad with it somewhere. They'll drive this monstrosity on maintained roads to camp sites on maybe 3 weekends a year. They'll make social media posts on how they love nature. And then head back home while burning 20 l/100km of Diesel (13mpg).

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u/Flashbang-Meringue 9h ago

don't forget the part where they drive it 50 feet away from the parking pad to take all the videos and pictures so you can't tell they are in an RV park.