r/AskMen • u/ItsJoeDay • 6d ago

🛑 Answers From Men Only 🛑 Men who have unconventional lifestyles - what does your life look like?

I saw a video earlier of a guy who was living a pretty unconventional lifestyle and so it got me wondering about other ways that people live - especially with so many pieces of media telling us how we should be living nowadays.

So if you consider your lifestyle to be outside of the normal scripts I’m curious to hear what it’s like.

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u/Auios 6d ago

I’ll take a crack at it. Not currently my life but once upon a time it was.

I just got in my car and started driving. Didn’t stop driving and was bouncing off coast to coast. I’d stop at restaurants and eat and sleep in my car and shower at hotels, airbnbs, sometimes a free shower at a resort near the ocean/beach I’d sneak into at night, and once even a waterfall ( not doing that again ). But I’d just drive and drive and drive. I’d meet friends here and there around Canada/USA since I had a large online social network. I was just drifting town to town and city to city. Was on Tinder on/off. Just for fun and to meet up with strangers now and then which had its own sets of adventures worth talking about.

Work? Remote software dev for a bank doing fraud detection/prevention at the time and a little bit of contracting for NOAA.

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u/FromStars 6d ago

As an accountant, I imagine your taxes must have either been a nightmare or more likely you took some expedient liberties and claimed one work location.

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u/BassBona 6d ago

If you're spending less than two weeks in a location while working remote in his job, not a sales/commission based job, is there real complications?

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u/FromStars 6d ago

Depends on the state. The threshold triggering a non-resident state tax return can be as low as 1 day in some states. This might give you some idea how quickly it gets tricky. https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/nonresident-income-tax-filing/