0:00 [Music] there was this couple uh who filmed life living in a storage unit that just got kicked out after their video showing it off went viral yeah I that's stupid is it the is like a black dude and a white girl yeah oh my God they're trying to be like we get super cheap R by sleeping in our storage room ex Happ that's only 100 bucks a month yeah I knew I once I saw that video I'm like idiot you're not supposed to put that out I mean they they came from a place of homelessness so at first I think people were like rallying to be like that sick you know what I mean and at first they were actually living in tents so they might have even gotten some like donations or whatever hopefully um in order to move
0:51 into a storage unit so uh he works as a food service worker but has gained thousands of followers on Tik Tok after documenting the unique lifestyle is that like saying working at McDonald's or something maybe food service or could be busing after sharing multiple clips uh to the platform of them living in a tent the pair decided to rent a storage unit which is cheap in comparison to an apartment o in one of the videos he said living here is actually really comfortable I can exercise I can use a public bathroom and it's climate controlled in here so it's nice and warm set inside of a building this unit is 24 hours so I can come here anytime I want and stay here as long as I need to we're very very grateful to have this space their living situation attracted millions of views and users on the platform have been supportive of their journey and here is a photo to show you
1:41 guys the type of spot that they're in with the storage unit a storage unit with windows I don't think he's got windows it's probably just the internal light yeah um but yeah looks like a good amount of space actually yeah yeah I can imagine though like you know if you're if you're homeless you're trying to get back on your feet you know what I mean and however much money that you might might make as a as a you know at McDonald's or whatever and you get x amount of bucks you're you're you're thinking like dang dude like an apartment is still pretty damn expensive in the thousands that's like you could get for like a 100 bucks yeah you know and the first month might even be like a dollar or some ████ as long as you can sneak byy it you shouldn't have posted it though publicly putting it up is cuz you know what's weird even um low housing places like like low income housing it's still like a th000 bucks
2:32 that's still a lot dude like I'm like why can't they make something even cheaper where it's like a a 100 or two they did I mean they have the Roslin lofts downtown I think those were like 400 and then they have the hild the soless where it's the cont the shipping containers all stacked up but they don't I think there's like specific rules it's all interm housing anyway it's like it's like live here while you get yourself set up for something else but then that's something else sometimes never comes so here's the actual vi video itself it says when you live in a storage unit man you gave away the best secret trying to figure out if this is like good enough to be sneaky and hide and stuff we trying to hide this [Laughter]
3:25 year no I don't think we should do it what is she doing we no look anything no I don't think we should they got a kid's mattress they both won't be able to fit on that you can get back here we thinking deep about it I don't even think that but we want to let people know that we get some hisan here like I'm saying in the sense of like if this was if this was completely BL then it's pretty big ins St it's open up top now he got maybe like a 20 by 10 to know that somebody's living here and
4:16 they just got a wall of boxes in the front yeah just to block it off right whoa here yeah continue to see it right there literal wall of boxes if somebody was to come over here they don't know nothing they don't know and they got caught it's pretty clever other than the fact that he's posting it yeah everything was smooth until he probably could have done that for years you know I was thinking to it's like what if you just want to save money while you like stack chips right the the sucky thing about it is there's no like when you're in a place that's low income there's also danger like there's a lot of countries and a lot of places where like low income doesn't mean danger it just means
5:08 like oh man it's kind of run down it's a little bit dirtier here you know maybe it's a little old but you don't have somebody shooting up drugs in the next apartment or like a whole drug Den or like a dude that's like you know ████ going nuts and trying to kill somebody or whatever like it's it's a different and you don't have people like breaking into your house every day like it's just a different environment so you can't even be frugal and want to save get something that's like a couple hundred bucks a month while you save a ton of money like I don't I don't know we can't we don't have that here I think the only way is um becoming roommates yeah so like if you go to a good neighborhood but then you rent just the room instead of getting your own apartment easy way to do then maybe you can get a room for like a couple hundred bucks and then
5:58 you're kind of away from the the craziness but now even on Airbnb sometimes bro you can find some cheap rooms for like 20 bucks a night 30 bucks a night 40 bucks a night so I know it's just for one night but sometimes it's like short-term renting might be a something good especially if you have some sort of income that might be better than just ████ doing a storage room or something but even at 20 bucks a night that's still going to be like 600 bucks a month it's hard to storage prices cuz like that's like a 100 bucks a month that's hard but if you're if you're going place to place you need somewhere to go quick like that could always be an option but it's definitely hard to find cheap places to live bro yeah and if you're like down on your luck and you're like desperate you know what I mean like the other option is homelessness storage is probably the sickest thing to do but I would imagine like that's probably you know you're
6:48 probably not the first person to think about that I bet Public Storage placers have to deal with that ████ all the time so they're their heads on a a swivel for that ████ you know all the people who are doing it successfully watch that video like you idiot yeah you're blown up the spot ████ yeah what would you guys do if you were down and out and you had to build yourself back up probably without a family or with a family if you no kids but just like this guy at least you have a partner you could pimp your partner out but you probably don't want to yeah you I'll probably just live in a trailer cuz like I've Just Seen trailers infinitely be able to stay in one spot spot and not be disturbed well you got to get to you got to get to a trailer right so like if wait do I just have Z yeah like they started with 10 so they got to get to
7:39 storage right so you can't you can't it's like a game oh so I'm starting from zero everything own nothing I have nothing level zero be at a friend's place for a little bit no no friends just it has to be on your own you just have to die what I mean I don't think they had the friends option cuz it sounds like they went from tent to storage right so like whatever situation they were in like assume no family you're just down and out same country you can speak the language I think the first thing I would try to do is if if I'm mentally coherent and I can at least sell myself to a degree where I look like a regular person I would just try to be a caretaker of some type of place or service cuz then that way I would be an all night shift of some sort like a smart apartment manager or something not I definitely won't get that job but I
8:29 don't know just something where there's like a a factory that just needs somebody to watch the area at night because a lot of time you know you've heard of of these things happening where it's like oh there's some homeless guy that's in the back of my property rather than just kick him out let me just pay him to make him responsible for the area so he's like my liutenant and doesn't let things get out of hand and then eventually that guy ends up in something somewhat stable he has a roof over his head you know he's able to it's like a give and take I would just be that guy for someone else that's true if you can find a place place where you could get paid the day of yeah and you could sleep there you could sleep there yeah yeah yeah cuz there's a boiler room somewhere where I could just like put a sleeping I would say construction site cuz they always have to have 24-hour watch cuz someone some methhead is going to steal copper yeah and then a lot of them they'll they'll let you pay the they they'll pay you out the day of that still puts you
9:21 in a kind of potentially dangerous situation is all right yeah I don't think you can really Escape that what like at a construction site I mean if someone comes in feel it like I'll just be like man I told them not to do it I bet they're skittish if someone's there hey get out of there and they run away and then I said I said hey and then they didn't listen to me but I saw it though you know like I'll be that guy you got copper in your pocket oh I would just steal copper that's that's what I would do that'll be my answer I'll go steal some copper steal copper in food somehow because when I worked at a restaurant um food is the best we always got like one meal oh family meal yeah we got one meal during our uh closing shift and if there was extra food they let us take it home so I'm like well I might not be able to
10:11 sleep there but at least I get fed so I think restaurant of some some sort would probably be something I do and then they pay you out every day so like uh tips tips yeah you get I mean the the hourly don't don't really matter you get that every two weeks but the tips is what's good and I think if I can crush it I'll probably like make a lot in tips yeah yeah my dad was a bus boy for a restaurant when he like first came over here one of his first jobs in America as well but all the aunties and uncles and stuff like that all of them there's like 11 of them staying in one small apartment damn so it was like 11 of them damn yeah so it was just everybody's starting from basically nothing damn and then one by one they were able to like slowly earn something move on to another job get this get educated here or get an
11:01 apartment there it is crazy the perspective cuz my dad was one of the ones that him and his brother helped bring over a lot of his siblings from China and I remember there was a period where we had like maybe like six aunts and uncles that all lived with us and so there were just mattresses all over my mom's master bedroom and I remember going damn this is so tight I hope the slumber party lasts forever and I remember when everyone started getting up off their feet and they were able to get their own place he like man they ████ ruined the slumber party everyone's gone now but but you think back you're like oh ████ they were Brokers go ████ that was like a refugee Asylum and then they all ████ but then when you're a kid you're like man a refugee sleepover yeah like that was so cool that's crazy it might have to be advantageous in some way to relocate to
11:53 a more almost rural area and maybe Apprentice for some type of trade because if there's less population and they just need more people to do ████ then you might be on a better track it's more affordable and I think people might be kinder like can I milk your goats and you let me sleep yeah for real in the with the go I think it would have to be something like that like you have to barter with somebody like I'll ████ clean your deck every day I'll clean your your ████ lawn every day you got to be able to do some kind of dirty work out there where there's less hands on deck there's actually um a site that um there's a bunch of farms that sign up and you can stay there and and it's kind of like you work and they house you and then they feed you and then you learn about farming I forgot the name of it but there's a whole website it's like Airbnb and then everyone um kind of puts their Farms there cuz that's a way for them to
12:43 likey have cheap labor but also people there actually care about farming right so it's a way for young folks that don't have money to buy their own Farm yet to visit different farms and get experience on like how to learn and do all this stuff while they like get some time and working and they and some of them even pay yeah so I'm like I wonder if cruise ships is like all inclusive like let's say you work on a cruise ship do they give you a place to stay and you have like some food vouchers three times a day they give you food every day I off every night swimming behind the ship swim back home I think so dude yeah they have to food yeah maybe just sleep in a c maybe it's like you know like T style where it's like oh you have your whole room yeah I think you got your own room I saw this guy talk about what he does but then like if I think if you're homeless
13:33 you probably have a better shot on a barge than a Cru ship on a bar like something that collects like like a work ship like a ship that's full of containers and and just like you know what I mean like the industrial version not going to be as fun as the cruise ship right there's no pool cruise ship will probably be like all right we'll pay you at this point what's your address and then you're ████ you know what I mean like it's it's got to be something yeah the barge will give you the meals too the sure a barge would be more likely to not be corporate enough that they can hire you and be comfortable with paying you cash that's true you got to find immigrant illegal immigrant jobs that pay you the day of it's I think that's the key shipping illegal need the money that day Carnival is not going to want to risk it on you yeah I was going to say go to Home Depot dude you need the money that day and on top of that what I was going to do um you can't go to job interviews
14:23 and wait ████ for the answer like what are you going to do that day yeah that's true right dude going to Home Depot Depot is my answer cuz imagine like you're going there you're like I need some cheap labor you got like a row of Mexicans and then one dude that look I speak English I'll paint your fence I'll do that and I'm like same price yeah ████ it like 40 bucks somebody somebody once asked me at Home Depot not that I it's cuz I look Mexican but I was at the paint aisle and this white lady was like would you paint my house like we were just both looking at pate and I was like no what the ████ no I felt so weird what did she say after you said what the ████ no she just went oh and then I didn't say what the ████ I just said should have I just said no but like I was very weirded out by that I'm going to start doing that home like you got all these guys outside that
15:13 could do it and now you paint ████ all the time jokes on you bu she was right what if it had nothing to do with it was just like my husband used to do all this and I have no man around anymore you look just like him oh I look just like him God damn [Music] a
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