11-10-2004, 10:20 AM
Who ever said a bum can't live a materialistic life? The advantage of being a bum is that you have no home, and therefore no expenses. Nothing says you can't get a job. It's actually rather easy, as a bum, to rack up a few thousand and say, buy a nice laptop with which to bum around with. I'm just saying, it's not as bad a life as you may think. And as to friends, you make far more friends traveling then you ever do staying solitary. Although you often part ways with them, with the internet it makes it easy to keep in touch with them, and since you're constantly traveling anyway it isn't hard to arrange a get together. But meh, that's just my thoughts.