Davsey,
In your posts here and as Davsey85 on this forum, you did live in your vehicle for a number of months before getting your Section 8 apartment, and you reported to be really, really struggling with the lifestyle.
Based on what you told us you had last fall, you also seem to have gone thru a lot of your savings in the past 6 months or so?
Once your savings are gone, you will be down to your monthly SSDI check. For everything.
As you have reported, and others have pointed out to you, living in a vehicle is in many ways more difficult, uncertain and labor intensive than in a permanent residence.
And, you have to move periodically, re-exposing yourself to all those environmental factors you report to be struggling with.
If you are living in your vehicle and run out of money, or it breaks down and you don’t have the cash for repairs, you will be stuck in place wherever you are.
If you stay in your subsidized apartment and an area you become familiar with, if you run out of money you will still have a place to live, with utilities and access to food.
You will not be stranded in a strange place and in a crisis without a support system.
There is no perfect answer for you, but my parents generation had a saying “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”, which I feel applies here.
You have a subsidized apartment you can afford on your SSDI alone, and were extremely fortunate to get this so quickly as most people wait years just to get on a waiting list.
Fix it up to accommodate your needs, work with your landlord to remediate any environmental issues you feel are present, learn to live more frugally and take off in your vehicle for a few days here and there to satisfy your wanderlust.
When you can transfer this certificate, and find an environment more to your liking with an apartment that will take it, consider moving.
We can become caught up in looking for a perfect work, living, friend, etc., environment, but as Bob says…wherever you go, there you are.
Your abilities and disabilities are going to continue to be present and require adjusting and accommodating. This is going to be so much more difficult living in a vehicle with a transient lifestyle.
It is my experience that continued movement can be a form of avoidance, where being still requires us to face and manage whatever it is that limits us.
I strongly urge you to reach out to whomever handles SSDI in your area and see if they can link you with an advocate to assist you in exploring your wants, needs and realistic options.
Someone familiar with disabilities, in general, and yours in specific, will be able to help you problem solve and make plans.
My two cents, Davsey, and I truly wish you well.
In your posts here and as Davsey85 on this forum, you did live in your vehicle for a number of months before getting your Section 8 apartment, and you reported to be really, really struggling with the lifestyle.
Based on what you told us you had last fall, you also seem to have gone thru a lot of your savings in the past 6 months or so?
Once your savings are gone, you will be down to your monthly SSDI check. For everything.
As you have reported, and others have pointed out to you, living in a vehicle is in many ways more difficult, uncertain and labor intensive than in a permanent residence.
And, you have to move periodically, re-exposing yourself to all those environmental factors you report to be struggling with.
If you are living in your vehicle and run out of money, or it breaks down and you don’t have the cash for repairs, you will be stuck in place wherever you are.
If you stay in your subsidized apartment and an area you become familiar with, if you run out of money you will still have a place to live, with utilities and access to food.
You will not be stranded in a strange place and in a crisis without a support system.
There is no perfect answer for you, but my parents generation had a saying “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”, which I feel applies here.
You have a subsidized apartment you can afford on your SSDI alone, and were extremely fortunate to get this so quickly as most people wait years just to get on a waiting list.
Fix it up to accommodate your needs, work with your landlord to remediate any environmental issues you feel are present, learn to live more frugally and take off in your vehicle for a few days here and there to satisfy your wanderlust.
When you can transfer this certificate, and find an environment more to your liking with an apartment that will take it, consider moving.
We can become caught up in looking for a perfect work, living, friend, etc., environment, but as Bob says…wherever you go, there you are.
Your abilities and disabilities are going to continue to be present and require adjusting and accommodating. This is going to be so much more difficult living in a vehicle with a transient lifestyle.
It is my experience that continued movement can be a form of avoidance, where being still requires us to face and manage whatever it is that limits us.
I strongly urge you to reach out to whomever handles SSDI in your area and see if they can link you with an advocate to assist you in exploring your wants, needs and realistic options.
Someone familiar with disabilities, in general, and yours in specific, will be able to help you problem solve and make plans.
My two cents, Davsey, and I truly wish you well.
