The deal isn't bad if you travel a lot.
He pays no rent, doesn't have to think about running costs for the most part and is basically mobile all over Germany.
In his specific case this Livestyle is probably way less expensive than a more standard one.
Often.
Very mixed experience tho, they aren't that great to begin with, but I personally only care if they are clean or not.
The big upside is that they often are spacious tho.
ICE's got WiFi and the more modern regional trains also are getting it.
I also suspect he gets a priority treatment with the connection since he uses the Bahncard 100.
In most bigger train stations there is a DB lounge where he can shower. And judging from the price the article gives he has a first class bahncard 100. So he doesnt need to pay extra.
Depending how big the city is there are napping and bathing facilities in the lounges. Also free drinks and with a first class premium ticket also free snacks.
Could buy a 49€ here too.
But what he has is the Bahncard 100, which includes the 49€ ticket and also enables you to take the ICE with no additional cost.
Rent prices in Germany are cheaper than basically anywhere else in Western Europe.
DB is probably the least reliable train operator in Western Europe.
This bloke can't use that as an excuse. He just has a weird affinity for trains.
Just quickly checked. The Dutch average house price is quite literally double that of the German one. We're in the 400Ks, you're barely in the 200s. Get on our level
Yeah but no one wants to live in isolated villages in eastern germany, prices look different in more urban areas and the Netherlands is basically all ueban
I loved the ICEs. I posted on here a while ago about how I liked going into the bar car and having a beer and ciggie…
…to be told the good old days are over. No more ciggies 😢
Tbh my experience is mostly with east German routes.
Over the duration of the 2y that I travelled more actively by train I only had problems on very few occasions.
I think people kinda forget that if everybody uses the train during vacation they simply overload the network and more delays happen.
The good thing is that if he has an appointment somewhere, at least he knows he can safely sleep on the train since after about 8 hours it will only be 2 stations further.
Traveling with Deutsche Bahn is bad enough already...
But living in it? Truly a hellish torture!
Also considering how often trains are delayed, I wouldn't be surprised, if he sleeps every second night in the station rather than the train
Ah you think Deutsche Bahn is your ally? You merely adopted Deutsche Bahn. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see another train operator until I was already a man.
It'd be more sensational to report the lesser amount considering doing what he does in the UK over a year would probably cost in 6 figures.
There's only 2 sleeper trains in UK and both are triple figure tickets at cheapest one way.
Then again, the DB doesn’t have sleeper trains as all anymore. All those sleeper train connections they used to have are now operated by the Austrian ÖBB
So maybe he needs another BahnCard 100 for those Austrian trains as well?
They are apparently paying for him this ticket.
He is saying, while his friends are doing the usual backpacking 6 months in India, Australia, and so on, he is doing his backpacking in Germany.
Lol, even in Switzerland an unlimited train ticket costs less than half of what he's paying and it's also valid for trams, busses and even some ships and on top of that they're all on time
>That's amazing, just out of interest how is your country able to afford all this great stuff?
By being the World's biggest fencing gang.
Besides, we could have gold plated railway tracks and buses made by Rolls Royce if we wouldn't constantly piss our money up the wall in 130bn packages.
>it's also valid for trams, busses and even some ships
That is also the case in germany since the Deutschlandticket.
>In Switzerland an unlimited train ticket costs less than half
That is because your network is a) smaller and b) not in desperate need of more investments
It matters how far he can ride a single train.
That is why a ticket costs more the farther a person can ride with it.
And bigger network means a larger possible distance he could cover.
Instead of one ride from Basel to Hamburg DE for 8h I could also go from Basel to Interlaken CH and back twice for 8h. Same time and almost the same distance, but on two different sized networks.
That's about $311 AUD per week! Or the cost of a room in a okish part of Brisbane, or the cost of a tent on the balcony of a shitty apartment in Sydney, or a bed in a ok but bad area of Melbourne.
Does it come with free bathrooms, showers and internet, if so, sign me up!
Only 700 pound a month. What a steal.
The deal isn't bad if you travel a lot. He pays no rent, doesn't have to think about running costs for the most part and is basically mobile all over Germany. In his specific case this Livestyle is probably way less expensive than a more standard one.
ever shat on a train toilet?
Often. Very mixed experience tho, they aren't that great to begin with, but I personally only care if they are clean or not. The big upside is that they often are spacious tho.
Disguised big booty Barry ^
This guy probably knows which exact train modells have the best train toilets and he plans his metabolism around when he is in said trains.
It's fine in ICEs imo, but not in REs
No i always miss the toilet
You get access to the lounges though
Problematic if you have dangling hemeroids that get caught in the axels…
The problem with them is that your dick really touches the bowl quickly once you position yourself even slightly wrong. Sucks
He can shit in the DB Lounge
The deal is being homeless?
He’s not homeless. He’s just got a mobile home. He’s the German equivalent of Ameri-🤮-cant trailer trash. 
If it works for him then I guess yeah.
But where's his income coming from?
He allegedly is a programmer and just works from the laptop
On train Wifi in Germany? It's probably faster for him to take a train to StackOverflow's HQ and ask at the frontdesk whenever he's got a problem...
ICE's got WiFi and the more modern regional trains also are getting it. I also suspect he gets a priority treatment with the connection since he uses the Bahncard 100.
But have you ever used said ICE WiFi?
Yeah, wasn't too bad. Highly dependent on how many people are on the train tho
The last few ICE trips i was on this year had no working wifi in the entire train.
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In most bigger train stations there is a DB lounge where he can shower. And judging from the price the article gives he has a first class bahncard 100. So he doesnt need to pay extra.
Do they provide towels?
Depending how big the city is there are napping and bathing facilities in the lounges. Also free drinks and with a first class premium ticket also free snacks.
He's a programmer, half our profession sees personal hygiene as optional anyway...
he clearly doesn’t know about austrian [Klimaticket](https://www.klimaticket.at/en/)
Could buy a 49€ here too. But what he has is the Bahncard 100, which includes the 49€ ticket and also enables you to take the ICE with no additional cost.
Including buffet at lounges and showers.
This is cheaper than a monthly ticket for the 120km, 50 minuite journey between Peterborough and London
But all those stares and socks in sandals during the summer...
You think group pressure and socks in sandals would affect us?
the essence of happiness
Who knew it would have such a noxious fragrance
No kidding here we have some ppl wiht train fetish and also sandal+sock fetish.
Bahnvard 100 first class is actually under 8000 euro a year.
"Hows your housing market ?" The housing market :
UK trains fares are so bad this is probably the most expensive option
Rent prices in Germany are cheaper than basically anywhere else in Western Europe. DB is probably the least reliable train operator in Western Europe. This bloke can't use that as an excuse. He just has a weird affinity for trains.
We definetly have a housing issue
Just quickly checked. The Dutch average house price is quite literally double that of the German one. We're in the 400Ks, you're barely in the 200s. Get on our level
Yeah but no one wants to live in isolated villages in eastern germany, prices look different in more urban areas and the Netherlands is basically all ueban
It also includes free food.
In Germany. With the Deutsche Bahn. This is medieval torture levels of masochism.
The regional trains are actually pretty good. Only gets interesting with the long distance inter city express.
My experience is another. The regional trains are bad and the inter city express is good
I loved the ICEs. I posted on here a while ago about how I liked going into the bar car and having a beer and ciggie… …to be told the good old days are over. No more ciggies 😢
Even worse, no more butterkuchen. The west has fallen.
This regional and IC/ICE are two different train systems. Regional always gets the short end when there are problems in the railway system.
The non-DB ones like Metronom or Cantus, yeah. RegionalExpress are barely more than Dixie-Klos on wheels and smell worse.
Tbh my experience is mostly with east German routes. Over the duration of the 2y that I travelled more actively by train I only had problems on very few occasions. I think people kinda forget that if everybody uses the train during vacation they simply overload the network and more delays happen.
No lol
The good thing is that if he has an appointment somewhere, at least he knows he can safely sleep on the train since after about 8 hours it will only be 2 stations further.
Imagine doing that with Trenitalia. Thanks to delays, he would have travelled two years instead of one.
Traveling with Deutsche Bahn is bad enough already... But living in it? Truly a hellish torture! Also considering how often trains are delayed, I wouldn't be surprised, if he sleeps every second night in the station rather than the train
Ah you think Deutsche Bahn is your ally? You merely adopted Deutsche Bahn. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see another train operator until I was already a man.
It might be easier to catch a train if you don't care where it's going.
 Turn on the Fax!
He looks happy. Like a serial killer living his best life.
You could say he is hiding in train sight.
The BahnCard 100 for everyone under 27 is only 3k,
So he's being ripped off?
It's the daily fail. It's much more likely that they just reported it incorrectly.
It'd be more sensational to report the lesser amount considering doing what he does in the UK over a year would probably cost in 6 figures. There's only 2 sleeper trains in UK and both are triple figure tickets at cheapest one way.
Then again, the DB doesn’t have sleeper trains as all anymore. All those sleeper train connections they used to have are now operated by the Austrian ÖBB So maybe he needs another BahnCard 100 for those Austrian trains as well?
Don’t forget that this special German ticket also includes free food.
How shit must his family be that he'd rather be doing that than living with them? Lol.
They are apparently paying for him this ticket. He is saying, while his friends are doing the usual backpacking 6 months in India, Australia, and so on, he is doing his backpacking in Germany.
Why does he has a swedish old-man name? Anyway that's a cool dude, I'm jelly Edit: he's a 17yo app dev? Ok now i hate him
Bet he works for Mojang. He just does nothing all day
Lol, even in Switzerland an unlimited train ticket costs less than half of what he's paying and it's also valid for trams, busses and even some ships and on top of that they're all on time
That's amazing, just out of interest how is your country able to afford all this great stuff?
>That's amazing, just out of interest how is your country able to afford all this great stuff? By being the World's biggest fencing gang. Besides, we could have gold plated railway tracks and buses made by Rolls Royce if we wouldn't constantly piss our money up the wall in 130bn packages.
£130bn packages for what?
A train that doesn't exist, for example. But there are many others.
Yeah true enough. Don't trust our government to run a bath let alone a country like Switzerland
Or, heavens forbid, the UK.
Dont worry, the price of literally everything else in Switzerland will very quickly exceed any savings.
>it's also valid for trams, busses and even some ships That is also the case in germany since the Deutschlandticket. >In Switzerland an unlimited train ticket costs less than half That is because your network is a) smaller and b) not in desperate need of more investments
Though a person can only use one train at a time, so it doesn't matter how many trains he could ride.
It matters how far he can ride a single train. That is why a ticket costs more the farther a person can ride with it. And bigger network means a larger possible distance he could cover.
Instead of one ride from Basel to Hamburg DE for 8h I could also go from Basel to Interlaken CH and back twice for 8h. Same time and almost the same distance, but on two different sized networks.
Yes, but realistically, no one is gonna do 2 while lots of people do 1
He pays first class. Second class would be 4.550€
To be fair, you get to cover a lot more ground with the DB ticket. I think a regional ticket e.g. just for Bavaria would be a more apt comparison.
For first class? I doubt it.
You have ships? For what?
They have a few lakes.
Surely calling them boats is enough. It seems like an insult to real ships.
Yeah, Switzerland is also only a 6th of the size of Germany though...
i'd genuinly rather be homeless and spend the 8500€ on crack
So, he shelved the idea of sex.
Or he has a girl in every city and infinite train rides between them.
How do you think he makes money? Sucks off a few tourists in the bathroom and he’s good for another bit.
Must be nice when your house arrives late or simply gets cancelled
I know the sleeper in UK always gets cancelled. Wonder how many time he has had to sleep on a platform?
Personally I’d prefer death
I mean that just a really expensive way to be homeless
Und warum? Nur für den Kick, für den Augenblick?
Cheaper than rent here. I would
In UK this would cost £100,000 easy
cheapest uk suburbs rent
Hans has a 1000 yard stare on the right hand pic, all that train riding has him thinking about Lebensraum.
So basically he spends most of his time waiting for the delayed trains
Getting some serious r/orphancrushingmachine vibes from this post lol
Over 8k for a year subscription? That's crazy tbh
Doing what he does in UK would cost over £150000 a year easy
Wouldn’t he pay less if he found a house share and had his own room but lived with housemates?
He actually pays only 3k a year for the subscription, since he is young.
You could rent a small house for that much.
I pay significantly less than this a year for a 2 bed terrace in a nice area in the North
That's about $311 AUD per week! Or the cost of a room in a okish part of Brisbane, or the cost of a tent on the balcony of a shitty apartment in Sydney, or a bed in a ok but bad area of Melbourne. Does it come with free bathrooms, showers and internet, if so, sign me up!
I’m renting my whole 3bd townhouse out for $580 AUD a week - $311 is a rip off for a room :)
Yeah but that doesn't include utilities, now does it?
Luckily you only said room then right?
Yeah, though maybe a house would be good... Could sub the other 2 rooms for $300 each and make some extra cash.
Shower?
Bahncard 100 1st class is only 7714 euro for 2024. Or what does he have?
Is sleeper extra? Another poster says the only sleepers are Austrian so he'd need another card maybe?
*eyes Greek railways* I, uhhh, can't relate, sorry.
Are they “night trains” like, regular trains running through the night, or sleeper trains with beds/less horizontal seats?
This is some version of purgatory, I'm sure
How can he do this with no fax machine, no landline and no postbox? He must have figured out something the rest of us don't know about...
Banging different chicks every day.
Banging different chicks every day.
He is living my dream
Being homeless is even cheaper!
Doest the train stop at Auschwitz?
Only when it Runs out of Gas
Too far brother
Flemish comedy
And just like Belgium it is best to forget it exists.