So some of us in this community are here because we wanted to experience something different and many went in with money and got a van build or many things to make it easier

Some of us fell on hard times and moved into the car or vehicle we had. This is maybe more applicable to the latter group but anyone who’s experienced it please provide your feedback

I was the latter and moved in to my 4 Door Nissan car after my depression got really bad and paired with extreme apathy. That Along with the extreme Covid shutdowns up here in Canada and false info they kept feeding us (example: just 2 weeks to flatten the curve! For about a year and a half) along with our slow health care misdiagnosing ear infections as a tumour and cancer multiple times and taking half a year to deal with some warts on my hands. That and me having saving to fall back on when I wasn’t sure where I wanted to go next after leaving my job, so I wasn’t working when it started and didn’t get CERB(Canada emergency response benefit for people who’s work halted)

Anyway I moved into my car just waiting to die, but I guess I kept eating at least something so it never came, then my fight or flight kicked in and got working. Within a couple months I was almost Out. New Year’s Day the car broke down and we broke pretty much every record we had that winter well every restaurant and place didn’t allow people in due to strict restrictions. Got car looked at but told needed new engine as they heard metal on metal and no compression.

I stayed in the car as shelter still amd a place for my stuff

Spring came and as I was being chased around for abandoned vehicle it got towed from a big mall lot

I got the vehicle back after making calls to churches and lots to find a more permanent spot where I won’t be harrassed. It went great and was there for over a year, but it was an older community who passed church on and the new group gave me a letter on my windshield saying 4 days or they call The police. Got a few extra days amd got it moved onto street and upped insurance. All summer I focused on working but people kept calling me in as I’m in one spot and people are NIMBY’s

Got to the point where I was following laws and trumping them and police were getting pissed, and started lying and threatening and trying to intimidate me, even trying to fabricate charges that I shut down pretty quick with the laws/bi laws.

But they’d prey on me and show up the day my insurance would be up so they could tow me

We’ll fall came and they scared me enough I turned down a few jobs to protect my shetlter/bed and stuff and with work slowing in our extreme winters as well I went 2 days without insurance and the car was impounded. first extreme day of winter since we didn’t get our regualr weather until January.

I went to sleep in banks and have been spending days in fast food joints and the mall nearby.

I found a few days of work along with my carbon tax rebate and another few individual days ol work that payment came through for. Had enough to get the car out and moved but nowhere to put it as I need a private spot as during winter the roads are cleared most nights and the ban is every night. And the car doesn’t run.

So I’ve fallen behind now and haven’t found a spot. I have money but not enough right now. The real problem is the sleeping in banks have given me bad edema in my feet cause I haven’t lied down in over two weeks.i also got a b12 deficiency (this is being supplemented with vitamins now and is improving). The biggest issue is my stuff in my storage locker is everything I own and more important. And My phone just got turned off and my storage locker is close to when they ask for 2/3 months owed or threaten to auction it. It’s priority one. I have enough for phone and to relieve the pressure on my storage locker, and have full time work with my own chosen hours at a place I like to work starting march. But if I pay the storage locker and phone I’ll have like less than 100$ towards my car. And it goes up 28$ a damn day in the impound.

I’ve sort of accepted maybe I need to ditch the car due to priorities . The problem is that it’s my shelter and my health is disintegrating without it. I can go and live in a tent come summer/fall but I’m in a top 5 coldest city on earth and then everything melting come spring creates a wet, muddy slosh pit.

I’ve been fighting long enough and just don’t think I have it in me to do it….

Shelters aren’t an option really… they don’t work schedule wise for those working, and if you have items like electronics or anything at all of value even socks it will get stolen. Winnipeg is Canadas worst city, or was Vancouver and Toronto maybe overall worse by total numbers. My old buddy works at one of them and last week him and a security guard got cornered with a knife and the guard got his cheek sliced open.

He now matches a worker who had his face partially hanging off from a machete attack. And my will and fight are low enough, I can’t handle the mental cases and crime in some open prison room.

I have no family which is why I’m in this position outside my uncles and he knows I’m homeless and won’t even take money to let me crash in the couch 2/3 days when I left the hospital for my edema. Yet he inherited a 3 bedroom house (since his brother/my biological father didn’t want it apparently) and lives alone and won’t let me pay for the couch even.

No friends I’ve reached out has offered to help and one of thems mom that knows me and I thought liked me watched me stand outside in -34 Celsius (-40 plus with windchill) and told me she’d call shelters and then never came back

Suggestions? Where did you guys go when you lost your vehicle?