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Friday, October 23, 2015

A 23-year-old Google employee lives in a truck in the company's parking lot and saves 90% of his income

When 23-year-old Brandon headed from Massachusetts to the Bay Area in mid-May to start work as a software engineer at Google, he opted out of settling into an overpriced San Francisco apartment. Instead, he moved into a 128-square-foot truck.

The idea started to formulate while Brandon — who asked to withhold his last name and photo to maintain his privacy on campus — was interning at Google last summer and living in the cheapest corporate housing offered: two bedrooms and four people for about $65 a night (roughly $2,000 a month), he told Business Insider.

"I realized I was paying an exorbitant amount of money for the apartment I was staying in — and I was almost never home," he says. "It's really hard to justify throwing that kind of money away. You're essentially burning it — you're not putting equity in anything and you're not building it up for a future — and that was really hard for me to reconcile."

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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 9:21 AM

    two bedrooms and four people for about $65 a night (roughly $2,000 a month)

    And we thought the rents in Salisbury were outrageous.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 9:28 AM

    Smart way to start your life. Smart.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 10:23 AM

    I watch the show about tiny houses because it fascinates me how much they can squeeze into a small area.However,there are the claustrphobic among us,myself included,who could not comfortably live in a small space.1000 square feet is my minimum.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 10:31 AM

    Good for him. A great jump start.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 12:53 PM

    Hope he doesn't die of carbon monoxide poisoning! :S

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  6. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 1:19 PM

    Anonymous said...
    two bedrooms and four people for about $65 a night (roughly $2,000 a month)

    And we thought the rents in Salisbury were outrageous.

    October 23, 2015 at 9:21 AM

    And that is actually $8,000 per month and $96,000 per year.

    I just read another article last week where San Francisco rent is even higher than NYC. People are living in the wooden and steel moving crates to save money.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM

    Anonymous said...
    Smart way to start your life. Smart.

    October 23, 2015 at 9:28 AM

    Really?? Where does he wash his dirt @ss and brush his nasty teeth?

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    1. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 2:59 PM

      Come on. Read the complete article. He worked that out too.

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  8. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 1:53 PM

    1:21 Like that bothers anyone on the shore.

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  9. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 2:45 PM

    1:21 Guess you didn't bother to read the article.

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  10. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 5:09 PM

    I love the tiny house show. I could totally do that. The only problem is there are too many regulations that try to control what your build and live in.

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