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Why Is It Called, “Living In Your Car” When All You Do Is Sleep There?
The description of the photo is as follows:
Two workers from Lynchburg, Virginia, who arrived in town today, sleeping in their car. Tomorrow they will go to work and get a place to live when they have time to find it. A steamfitter and a carpenter’s assistant. Radford, Virginia
The image is circa 1940. Yet here in 2021, not only are we still talking about people living in their vehicles, but it’s still happening.
Eighty years later.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Eighty. Years. Later.
Back then, it’s just what you did in order to survive and people didn’t look down on you for it. They understood. They were right there with you. But now, nearly a century after this image was captured, there is such a long-standing income disparity in this country that we have forgotten whence we came.
In my nearly two years of research on the subject, I have concluded that there are basically three types of people living in the vehicles.
- The Instagram Group — they have the half a million dollar whips that are all trimmed out. Their mommys and daddys helped them get the vehicles and decorated it to the nines for, you know, just in case Better Homes and Gardens popped…
