Living in a Van
This seems like a romantically bohemian way to approximate a pampered middle class kid's idea of how poor people live.  If you want to save money, you can try what they actually do, which is move to a less desirable neighborhood and spend one third what you do on rent for an apartment.You live in a crazy expensive neck of the woods?  Nice to meet you; I live in Japan, cry me a river.  There's old folks on social security and single mothers in your town.  Most of them don't shower with wet wipes.I can't tell if my revulsion for this idea is class disdain because I'm too well off to consider it or class disdain because when I wasn't well off we had too much pride to ever stoop to anything like that.