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

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http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-truck-in-parking-lot-2015-10

When 23-year-old Brandon S. 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."

He started laying the groundwork for living out of a truck immediately, as he knew he'd be returning to work full time in San Francisco. A school year later, he was purchasing a 16-foot 2006 Ford with 157,000 miles on it.

Note to Business Insider: Google is in Mountain View, about 35 miles south of San Francisco.

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1. Smart kid. He should have enough soon for a down payment on a place if he wants . . .

where he can earn equity and tax write offs.

[Downwinder]

2. Gonzo

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3. an actual working wage in most cities in the world

would be around sixty bucks an hour which sounds absurd but a living wage has to balance out people making millions a year of which there are many .

[mackerel]

4. It's a great idea but I wonder if they will let him continue to use their lot?

My brother tried the same thing in the 80's but he kept getting kicked out of parking lots after a few days. A couple of times the popo came and told him it was illegal to live in his truck.