German college student, Leonie Muller ditched the normal apartment life and started living on the road. Last Spring, the Tubingen undergraduate student left her Stuttgart residence and hopped on trains - spending her monthly flat rental budget for a monthly train ticket and travelled across the country living as a modern nomad, Metro UK reports.
"It all started with a dispute I had with my landlord," Muller wrote in a letter to Washington Post. "I instantly decided I didn't want to live there anymore - and then I realized: Actually, I didn't want to live anywhere anymore," she said.
This move gave her a life-changing experience - thanks to her boyfriend who gave her this idea. Considering the amount of time she spends commuting from her flat in Stuttgart to her boyfriend's apartment in Cologne, her college in Tubingen, and other places to visit her family and friends where she spends most of her nights over, German news agency Der Spiegel reports her boyfriend suggested she should take this option to explore more places since she wasn't spending most of her time staying in her flat either.
Muller then packed her clothes in a backpack, brought along her bag of toiletries, college documents and tablet computer, and literally started living on trains. "I really feel at home on trains, and can visit so many more friends and cities. It's like being on vacation all the time," she shared.
Aside from using train bathrooms to wash up and doing school work on board, Muller told German TV station SWR there's so much more she could do. "I read, I write, I look out of the window and I meet nice people all the time. There's always something to do on trains."
"I have so much freedom, which also involves taking important decisions. I have to ask myself constantly, what I want and what I must do," she added.
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Considering herself more of a traveller than a homeless person, this brought Muller to the idea of using this personal experience as a social experiment. She is currently documenting her not-so-typical- daily life in a blog which will eventually be written for her undergraduate paper.
"I want to inspire people to question their habits and the things they consider to be normal," Muller told The Post. "There are always more opportunities than one thinks there are. The next adventure is waiting just around the corner - provided that you want to find it."
Metro UK added Muller has spent less money for a $380 monthly train ticket than cashing out $450 for a monthly flat rent.
