[2025-01-19] things aren't going well [ETawtQVzZmo]

Wait a minute.

I need to readjust.

I put my laptop on this leather cushion

and I think it was blocking the heat vents

and it was overheating. I moved it onto a

table now.

Oh my God,

I'm in my new place now. It's not been

going super smoothly.

Can you hear me? Testing,

testing.

You hear me? Looks the same as

the last place. Yeah, they both

have white walls. I feel a bit,

um, a bit nervous here

because I'm living in this place. It's

kind of like— it's

kind of like a share house,

but I've got my own private part of the

house. It's like in this house,

but they've created a separate part of

the house for guests, and I'm as far

away on the other end as I can so I can

stream. But I'm a bit nervous.

I'm pretty sure they won't hear me. It's

just really awkward because the

first— I got here yesterday And then there

was like a power outage and then the

internet stopped working. So he had to

keep coming in to my part of the house to

fix it. And then the power went out again

at night and then he had to come in again.

He was like knocking on the door to come

in and fix it. And then in the morning

again, he had to come in again to reset

the internet because also the heating is

connected to the internet somehow. So

yeah, it's been a bit of a wobbly start,

but I think everything's good now.

Very nice people.

So things are not going very well.

I booked this place because it was closer

to Sunny, but now Sunny's really sick.

I don't think she can come over whilst I'm

here because I've only booked this place

for 5 nights. Sunny's like really sick

now. And when you get that sick,

it takes weeks to get better.

Also, I'm scared I'm going to catch her

thing because if I get sick, oh my God.

Last time I got sick, I couldn't drive for

weeks. When you get the flu, you can't

drive. You feel so dizzy. How am I

going to go around doing viewings and

stuff and drive into my new hotel when I'm

sick? It would be game over. I don't know

what I'd do if I got sick, so I am kind of

scared of catching whatever she has.

Am I renting this place? No, I just booked

it for 5 nights. It's a nice place.

Really warm compared to the pre— the

previous place was freezing, having to

light the fire. This place has modern

heating and it's always warm. So yeah,

that's been nice, but the internet's a bit

weird. It's really high speed, but well,

yesterday it kept disconnecting itself.

Hopefully it's fine for this stream.

It stresses me out to see people

struggling to find a house. Yeah, I'm

really worried, to be honest. I just got

an email back from one of the places.

She said— she said I have to

make 3 times the rent to

be approved by a credit check.

3 times? I don't make 3 times.

I actually don't even make 1 times. I make

like 0.8 times the rent. She said I have

to make £31K a year to pass the credit

check. And she asked me if I have any

savings or if I have other streams of

income. I said I've got £12,000 savings,

you know, £5K in my stocks or £7K on my

credit card. So I don't know if that's

going to— I said, can I just pay all the

rent upfront? Because it's only £800 a

month. I can easily just pay that. I pay

you the whole year upfront. £800 is

nothing. What do you mean I gotta make

£31k a year to afford an £800 place? What

a load of rubbish. It's so irritating.

I can easily afford to pay £800 rent.

All I gotta do is go out and do some Uber

Eats and I could make like £1,500. That's

being lazy. It's such a load of bollocks.

Listen, if you make $31K a year,

that means you make $2,600 a month.

Minus the rent, $800. Say bills,

$150. Food, $150. $300. That's $1,100.

And then say you got some payments like

subscriptions, fuel. That's like $100.

Okay, so out of my $2,600 paycheck, after

I've paid rent, fuel, food, bills, I got

$1,200. Left over.

That is such BS. Oh wow,

I just passed the credit checks, I make

£31K, but I've got like £1,200 disposable

income left over a month. That's so— I can

afford this, I can afford this place I'm

looking for. I can't afford 3 times the

rent. It's so stupid.

I have never made $31K in my entire life,

and it's just a crappy bungalow. It's like

a stupid little bungalow for old people.

I mean, it's a nice bungalow, got a nice

view and everything, but come on, it's

like a little bungalow, and you think

someone making $31K a year is going to

want to live there? If I was making £31K a

year, I want to live in a mansion.

£800 a month. Someone working at

McDonald's could afford that, but they

wouldn't let someone working at McDonald's

rent it because someone working at

McDonald's only makes £21K a year, not

£31K a year. So even though someone

working at McDonald's makes double the

money you need to rent the place, you're

not allowed to rent it because you need to

make triple. Stupid.

So technically, since I've only made £19K

in the previous year, the only place I

would be allowed to rent would be like a

£500 a month room share in a flat.

I am not doing a room share in a flat with

a bunch of stinking strangers. And then if

I got a room share in a flat, Sunny can't

even come over. So what's the point? I'm

not bringing Sunny over and got like 4

weirdo guys in the next rooms trying to

hit on her.

So I don't know what to do. My only option

is I just get a serviced apartment for

like £1,500 a month and then grind Uber

Eats. But then that means I need to make

like £2,000 a month. Because of the

serviced apartment, the car payments,

food. The good thing about a serviced

apartment is no deposit. Don't need to buy

furniture, don't need to pay bills. It's

all included. So I am seriously

considering it. It's so stupid because

it's like, why do

landlords require all this BS checks

and information like this and that and

this and that. But then you go on the

booking website and you can get a service

apartment. You just pay upfront. As long

as you can pay upfront, they're happy.

They don't care how much money you make.

They don't care if you like go into

massive credit card debt. All they care

about is they get the money. Why can't

landlords be the same? I've got the money.

I'll give you the money. Just give me the

damn place.

Why can't Renting a place used to be the

same as booking a place. It's so

irritating because I can easily afford it.

£800 a month, it's nothing.

Different eviction rules. What, so if I

rent a place, I can squat in it? Well,

why can't I just squat in a serviced

What if I just book a service apartment,

then refuse to leave? What are they going

to do? So isn't it the

same risk?

So I don't know what to do. Like, even how

can I even make $31K a year? That's just

insane. I mean, I made $2,600 in December

thanks to Amazon Flex, and that was

because it was Christmas. I've got to make

$2,600 every month.

So if you, if you add up my last

6 months, I only made £11,100.

If you double that, that's £22,000. And my

last 6 months I was making good money

because I was doing Amazon Flex. I was

making over £2,000 a month. But that's

still not enough. £22,000 is not £31,000.

Is that what it's like these days?

Seriously, if you make minimum wage and

you work full-time, You're not allowed to

live in a house on your own.

It's like, oh no, you want a house, live

on your own? Oh, you only make $20K?

Sorry. Oh, you can afford the rent?

Well, you don't. You can't afford 3 times

the rent, can you? It's like, imagine

going into a car dealership and the car

costs $10,000 and you got $20,000 in your

bank account and And you're like, I want

to buy the car. I've got 10,000. And then

the car dealership people like, oh, you

got 10,000. You say you can afford it,

but do you have 5 times the car's value?

No. Goodbye then. Not selling you the car.

What a stupid load of rubbish. I could

literally So

what I can do is like get a serviced

apartment and then I'm gonna have to pay

£2,000 a month and then I just grind hard

or even possibly get a job. And then say

after 12 months I now have proof that I

made £32K in the last 12 months. Well,

I'll pass the credit check when I apply

for a new apartment and I'll just quit the

job after I get approved and I move in.

I'll be like, yes, moved in, and I'm just

gonna quit my job and go back to Uber

Eats. Because I don't need to make £30K a

year to be able to afford to live in an

£800 a month place. Idiots.

I'm getting so triggered. In Manchester,

this didn't happen. What's changed?

All of a sudden they're asking me like,

did you make £30K in the last year? They

didn't ask me that in Manchester. I do not

remember this in Manchester. They just

wanted proof of employment and I told them

I'm not employed but I can pay upfront and

they were like, okay. So now I've seen 3

places. Uh, the first one just said, we

will let you know, and they said they sent

off my application. That place was £875,

so it's more expensive than the place that

just replied to me. And it's like a

cottage on a farm. So I got to make $31K

to live on a cottage in a farm.

What the hell kind of person making $31K a

year is going to live on— live in some old

barn on someone's farm? What a joke.

$31K a year is like a professional.

Minimum wage, full-time minimum wage is

like $20K a year. $30K a

year is like an IT professional, an

engineer, not a junior position, but like

a middle position. The hell kind

of professional is going to live on a barn

on a farm? What?

You make more money than the farmers who

own the barn. What a joke.

My dad made about $36K and he lived in a

massive house. Imagine my dad only making

$36K a year and he's like, oh, I've got to

live in a barn on a farm.

Stupid idiot real estate agents. I bet

they don't even make $30K themselves

working at the real estate agency.

So I'm hoping that because she asked me

how much I have in savings, I can use my

savings. I'll just

cash out my $7K credit card limit and put

it all onto my Wise account, pay the $150

fee, transfer it to myself. I'm just

a bit scared. Is Wise safe? Is it safe to

just like send $5K to Wise? I'm a bit

scared. What if it disappears?

That was 30 years ago. No, it wasn't. It

was like 5 years ago.

So I don't know what to do. I feel like

I'd have a better chance of buying a

Yeah, I Googled it and there's a whole

bunch of Americans whining about the same

problem, saying, oh, there's a load of

bollocks got to pay here. Gotta make 3

times what the rent is when I could

easily live on 2 times what the rent is.

Stupid landlords, agencies.

How's anyone supposed to get a place to

live? Oh, you go make 10 times

the rent just to be extra sure that you

can afford it. How about you let me decide

if I can afford it or not? If I can't

afford it, I wouldn't be trying to apply

for it, idiots. Stupid rental system.

Rent a room with a roommate. Yeah, it's

just so ironic. Like, I came here to get a

place so I can spend time with Sunny, and

then I end up having to rent a room with

some smelly Nepalese guy, and then Sunny

can't even come over. The irony of that.

That would just be so tragically sad.

Daniel thought he's gonna move there so he

can live with Sunny, and then he ends up

living with smelly Bangladesh boy working

at Pizza Hut. How am

I even doing anymore?

And then I don't think my mum can even

qualify as a guarantor because she doesn't

make 3 times the rent. You know, the

guarantor also has to pass the income

check thing. I think my sister might be

able to help me, but I don't know if she

Do you think my sister would say no? So

it's a very difficult question to ask

because, like, obviously I would really

appreciate it, but I'm not saying I'm

going to hate you if you say no. I

understand if you say no.

I'm scared to ask. I feel like she

wouldn't. She doesn't have to do

anything apart from sign up saying that

she would pay my rent if I don't.

And knowing my history of just getting

bored and ditching, she might not be up

for it. My mum might be, but I don't think

my mum would qualify because she only

makes like $15K a year from passive

So my only other option is I get a

roommate, or my savings

might be able to help me.

Savings or get a roommate.

Blow my credit card.

So annoying.

So I've got about 6 viewings to see next

week, but I feel like it's all just going

to be the same. Oh, thanks for coming for

the viewing. Here's the application form.

How much do you make annually? Oh, sorry,

you need to make 50 bazillion K a year to

apply.

I only made 19K in the past year.

Because I was trying not to make money so

I didn't have to pay tax. The plan was to

make less money, not make more money.

It's like, okay, you make less money,

then you don't have to pay tax. Oh, you

don't make enough money. Now you can't get

a place to rent.

So it's like win and a lose. Yeah. Now I

can show the tax people I didn't make much

money. Yeah, but now what do I show the

rental people? To prove that I can rent

the place. Shot myself in

the foot. Credit card

is not savings. Well, it would be if I

send it all to Wise and then transfer it

to myself.

So what am I going to do?

Um,

I mean, if I'm going to put my money where

my mouth is, where I claim I can make $2K

a month, then I should just do it, and

then I'll be able to afford the $1,500 a

month serviced apartment.

But it is quite tricky. I mean, I'd have

to make $1,500 plus my car payments,

$400, plus food. I would have to make

$2,200 a month

just to get by. Just to pay the minimum

costs.

And then if I got a job, I might be able

to make $18K, $20K plus my YouTube money.

I might be able to make $30K. And then if

I made $30K, yeah, I could easily afford

the $1,500 a month serviced apartment.

So that's my game plan right now is I just

swallow the bullet And I put it on my

credit card, the 1,500 apartment,

and book it for a month. I will just try

and focus now on making money and getting

a job or getting extra work to see if I

can actually put my money where my mouth

is and make 2,500 a month.

Otherwise it's game over. Time to go home

because there's no point getting a

roommate. I can't make YouTube videos if

I got a roommate because he'll be like,

oh, Daniel's a weirdo, he talks to himself

in his room. And then Sunny can't come

over, so then what's the point of even

being here? That's the whole point of

being here, wasn't it?

When did I last do Uber Eats? I haven't

done it since I got here. The problem is

I'm like an hour away from the nearest

town. So by the time I get there, I only

have 50% battery, so I've got to top up.

That'll cost £15. And then I drive around

doing Uber Eats, maybe use another 50% of

the battery. I've got to top up another

£15 just so I can get back here. So it

would cost me like £35 charging to get

there, do the work, and get home. What's

the point? And I've got to pay £7

insurance. Let's say I make £60, which is

pretty good for an Uber Eats day. £60 to

£80, pretty good for an Uber Eats day. I

make £60 minus £40 charging and

insurance. I'm not working for 6 hours

just to bring home £20 net profit. I can't

be bothered.

Your rent will be £1,500. Total income per

month is £2,200.

Uh, no, £2,200 would be the minimum I need

to make to pay the £1,500, pay my £400

car payments, insurance, monthly Amazon

stuff, and get food and

charge my— wait, I got— I haven't even

added in charging the car. Oh my God,

using public chargers I'm going to have to

pay hundreds in public charging electric

fees. Now, I wouldn't pay tax.

Wait, wait. Are you talking about income

tax?

You'd have no life just paying rent, car,

and food. I might. If I, if I'm lucky,

maybe I can save a couple hundred every

month. Oh my

No, wait.

So let's say I, I pay it with my credit

card. $1,500. I basically got to work all

month to quickly pay that off before the

month ends.

Before interest starts kicking in. So it'd

be like this frantic race to quickly make

$1,500 to pay off the credit card, but I

still gotta make the $600 food and other

bills on top of it.

Well, the interest is still 0%, but that

ends on April, so I don't have much

left on the 0%. Introductory offer.

Yeah, I don't know what to do because when

you search for places that are £500 a

month, all you get are flat shares, room

shares. You can't get a place for yourself

for £500 or £600 a month, even though this

is the middle of nowhere, literally in

the middle of nowhere, and you can't

get a place for yourself. Unless you make

£31K a year.

I should tell them I've got £500 in

crypto. The bull market is

gonna pump hard this year.

Stay with Mum until you figure things.

Stay with my mum for—

well, in the last 6 months I made 11,000,

so I've got another 6 months to make

another 20,000. Yeah, I go

home and then I work hard 6 months. To add

to my previous 6 months, and then that

will make 12 months so I can show them I

made $30K. How am I going to make $20K in

6 months?

That's like $3,300 a month.

Even doing Amazon Flex double the times

I was doing it, you wouldn't make that

much money. So the

only way to get what I want is if I made

$30K a year.

Just like back to being in Japan again,

the only option is a shitty guesthouse

with irritating roommates.

I really hate life sometimes.

It would literally just be like being back

in Japan again.

If my mum just sold the house and gave me

200K, I could buy my own house. I saw a

house Yeah, I saw a house. It's only 100k.

Okay, it's a bit of a rundown piece of

crap, but I don't care. I'll just— I'll

put down some carpet. I'll sand down the

walls so it's flat, and then I'll just

paint it. And then I'll just put down like

a carpet so it looks nice, and then just

paint it all white. Easy.

100k. I got approved for a mortgage as

well, so I just need 20k deposit. Yeah,

but it looks like a crap hole. The, the

walls are like, I don't know, it's like

someone shot at it with a gun and there's

like dents and chips of it missing.

And then the roof is like, I don't know,

it's got some kind of paper on it and it's

dangling down. And then the floor, it just

looks abandoned and crap, but I think it

would be easy to clean up. I got the Lord

blood running through me. We know how to

fix houses up.

Good luck with heating. I'll just plug in

my electric blanket. I don't care. At

least I got a place to live.

Frames for the window. I don't care. I'll

just board them up and then I'll put a TV

where the window was and then put a

screensaver. It's just a house.

It's not hard. It's just bits of wood and

brick stuck together with glue. I'll fix

it up easily.

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have

structural problems because they would say

that in the ad. It's just a really ugly,

rundown old house, probably. But it looks

fine. Like, it's an end-of-terrace house

in a little village. It looks nice on the

outside and the area looks fine.

If I had $100K, I'd so get that house and

then I'll just work to be able to buy

stuff to fix it. It'll be easy.

I get What's that? Drywall.

I'll just go to the DIY shop. I get some

drywall and I just nail it into

the brick wall to cover up the ugliness.

And then I just paint it white.

I'll get some wooden planks and

then I'd create like slots and I'll stuff

in some woolly stuff to make it warm. And

I'll get some dryboard and then I'll just

nail it into the boards and then I'll get

like thick carpet and I'll just plonk it

over the top of wherever the floor is,

and I'll nail it down, cut it nice so it

fits, and get a skirting board. It's easy.

A window's not easy though. I'll just get

someone to put the windows in. I don't

really care about windows, whatever.

And then worst case scenario, I can always

just get a tent and put the tent inside of

the house and sleep in the tent. At least

I've got a place to sleep and live.

That's all that matters.

Better than doing room share.

Just get land? Yeah, then I could build

my own house. It's easy, you just get a

load of stones. Back in the olden days,

they didn't use bricks. That's why all the

old cottages are like stone walls. You get

a bunch of stones and then you just make

some mud and then stick it all together.

I've seen some lodges, like park lodges,

they go for about 50K,

but then you don't really own the land,

you just own the lodge that's on the land,

which is owned by like a public park So

I don't know, if they tell you, oh, we're

selling up, you gotta take away your

lodge. How do I move my lodge?

So I've got to leave this place on

Thursday. I've got to seriously

consider putting down some big fat money

to get a nice cottage serviced apartment,

and it's gonna cost £1,500.

So then I move in, I've now got I

don't understand credit cards. So if I'm—

if I pay £1,500 now, does it mean I have

30 days until the interest starts kicking

in? How the mighty have fallen, bro is

pocketing £20 a day working 6-hour shifts.

LMAO, 35 years old, by the way. Shut up.

No, I'm not, because I didn't do it

because I couldn't be bothered.

It's funny when you said you could buy a

cheap rural house in Japan.

Well, yeah, in Japan you can get a place

for like 5K, 10K. In Japan, houses don't

appreciate because of earthquakes and

stuff, so no one cares about buying a

house as an asset.

I tried this, um, I tried

this different delivery app today. I don't

want to say what it is just to be safe.

Yeah, it was okay. I made about—

it said I'm gonna get paid £27

and it took me about an hour, an hour and

a half to finish the delivery. Um,

but the problem is it doesn't seem super

active. But if I can get 3 of those a day,

that'll be good money. £27 times 3

times 30, that's like £2,400 plus my

YouTube money. I mean like £3K a month. I

mean like £37,000. All that. Okay, maybe

all I have to do is twice a day.

Yeah, but the problem is, uh,

it just doesn't seem very active.

Or it seems like it's just the same couple

of people using it.

But the pay's pretty good. I mean, £27 for

an hour of work. I would just have to do

that twice and make like £60.

Plus maybe some Uber Eats. I would have to

create a goal like I want to make £60

today using Uber Eats and the other app.

That would give me £1,800 And

then I had to charge my car again. That

probably cost me £15. So if I do it every

day, it's going to cost £450 a month

charging my car. So £1,800

minus the charging fees, I'd make £1,400.

And that's net. That's after charging my

car. So then plus my YouTube money, say

like £720, £750. Some PayPal.

Yeah, I make $2,200 a month. I'd easily

be able to afford the serviced apartment

plus food.

So yeah, I think I'm gonna have to book

the serviced apartment.

Number one, I need more time to find a

real estate agency that's gonna negotiate

with me. Number 2, let's say I

just, I can't rent a place, then I'm gonna

have to get this serviced apartment

because number 1, I need a serviced

apartment. I need my own space so I can do

YouTube. If I live in a flat share, I

won't be able to do YouTube because number

1, I can't go outside to film because I'll

dox myself. And then number 2, I can't

film my room because I'll be really

awkward and nervous hearing all the noise

outside. So I just don't know how I can do

YouTube if I did a flat share. Also,

Sunny can't come over. So flat share

is just out of the option.

I can't do YouTube, Sunny can't come over,

what's the point of being here then? So I

kind of have to get the serviced apartment

because then I can do YouTube, I'll have

my own space, I'll have my own parking

place probably, Sunny can come over.

And, uh, yeah, and I'll just go and do

delivery work and do YouTube. I should

be able to clear £2,200 a month.

Oh well, thank you so much.

You get this for being a cheater and

betraying your ex-wife. Karma. What do you

plan on doing by the time you are 50 years

old? No job, no skills. If you

were smart, you would go back to school or

find some training, but you won't. I did

be useless forever and die. I spent 6

months learning to drive. That is a skill,

and now I'm making money using my skill.

I've got a training session on Monday with

a different delivery company, so I'm going

to go and do that. I'm really hoping that

I get the job because

then I can do that plus Uber Eats plus

this new delivery app. I have like 3

delivery jobs I can do.

So yeah, I've got that thing tomorrow.

I've got a lot of stuff to do tomorrow.

I've got a 9 AM viewing, so I've got to

leave here at like half Wait,

actually it's 9 o'clock. It takes like

half an hour to get there. I gotta leave

here at like 8:15,

so I should wake up at 7. I wake up at 7,

coffee, drink, blah blah blah. I'll be

ready at 8 and leave at 8:15, get there

at 8:45 so I'm early, do the viewing.

And then I'm going to test out the Tesla

Supercharger to try and see if it works.

And then I've got to drive 40 miles, so

like an hour drive to the

training session. And then that'll

probably take an hour, and then I'll

probably go shopping because I've got to

get food. I had no food. I just had pasta

with sauce. I just boiled a pot of pasta

and I put the sauce on it and I just ate

it like that because I didn't have time to

go to— I mean, yeah, I didn't have time to

go to the supermarket because they were

closed. I'm thinking I just get

beans instead of meat for protein.

Beans and eggs, because I don't want to

cook meat because I'm scared. Number one,

boiled meat tastes disgusting. And I don't

have my air fryer and I'm scared. I don't

think there's an oven here. I'm scared to

use the oven because every time I use the

oven, I open the door, all this steam and

smoke comes out and it triggers the fire

alarm.

Or I get precooked meat.

I boiled meatballs a couple of days ago

and it was disgusting. I just went— fish.

Yeah, I could boil fish, but fish is kind

of expensive compared to meat. Beef and

steak is really expensive. Chicken is

really cheap. Fish, I don't know about

fish. Fish is like a fancy thing, you

know, like salmon. Am I

at my different place now? Yeah, I moved

in yesterday. It didn't go very smoothly.

They kept having power cuts and the

internet kept going off and the guy had to

keep coming into my living quarters.

I'm kind of sharing a house right now with

this married couple.

This is what I said to my mum. I said,

you should be doing this. You know how

much they're charging for this place?

They're charging like £500 a week.

But it seems like they're not really fully

booked because I checked the availability

and I could actually book this place until

next month, 10th of February. So it seems

like they've got no bookings until

February something. So yeah,

maybe it's not consistent. Maybe they

don't have it fully booked all month. My

mum's only charging £500 a month for a

friend to live in her summer cabin. I

think my mum's getting ripped off.

Because after you— because the woman in

the summer cabin is going to put on the

heating, obviously. That's going to add

like £100 to the electric bill. My mum's

likely to make under £400 net profit

renting out at £500 a month. She should

put it on Booking and charge like £80 a

night. But the

day my mum ever listens to anything I say

will be the day hell turns into ice.

How am I paying for this? I'm putting it

on the credit card. And then

I'm doing delivery work to pay off the

credit card. I got my sponsorship money.

They paid me again, £150.

Credit card to the rescue.

I've got my YouTube money, should be

coming on Tuesday. £910.

Yeah, things are gonna be rough.

I just, I need a place and to not keep

worrying about Where am I going to stay

next week? I just need a place to settle

down and get into a routine and then focus

on work so I can start making money.

Yeah, the debt's building up. I really

need to get back to work quickly. I need

to do this training session on Monday.

Oh yeah, I had this other job thing with

this other company. Where I had to upgrade

my car insurance, so I might get a job

there too. So I might have 4 jobs: Uber

Eats, the new app, and then these 2

training sessions, which should lead into

a job as long as I can show them stuff

like my insurance. They seem pretty

desperate for drivers.

I can't seem— I

can't get on Just Eat. It just says they

aren't looking for drivers.

I wish I could just get every app.

Am I stuck in the UK because of the car?

Well, I could just give the car back if I

really wanted to leave, but I don't see

the point leaving the UK because I would

leave the UK and I'd just be in a worse

situation. Living in a hostel, a 20-person

bunk bed dormitory.

Also, my car has turned brown.

I hit this pothole so hard today it

triggered my web— my dashcam. It went,

collision detected. And I was like, shut

up. I didn't collide into anything. It was

a stupid pothole, but I hit it pretty

hard. It was freaking massive. I was like,

oh shit. I tried to brake,

but it was too late. The roads here can be

pretty bad. They're full of potholes.

Everywhere is just dusty. The car just

gets so dirty. My car is just

all brown now. And I got a big

bird poo on my window. I can't clean it

off because I didn't have any water, and

now it dried.

I do like driving here. It's just some of

the roads, very narrow

and tight. A lot of potholes too.

I've been trying to swerve around them,

but sometimes they just come out of

nowhere.

Yeah, I just— I don't know what to do.

All I want is a place to live so I can get

into a routine and then focus on work.

I just think it's ridiculous. In order to

rent an £800 a month place, you gotta make

£31K a year.

So stupid. Well, I guess what I can do is

I can just try and prove that I can make

31K a year and then come back to them in

12 months' time. Or else I live in a

serviced apartment blowing all my money.

Yeah, and then by the time it's 2026,

they'll be like, oh, you need a ratio of 4

to 1 income to rent because of inflation,

I'll be like, oh,

fuck off.

Can I update credit card debt? It's tricky

because I charge my car and it It doesn't

update straight away how much the charging

costs. It will just take a prepayment of

£15. So my credit card debt is £339

with 6 pending transactions.

£45 from charging 3 times.

The problem is I charge to like 80p 80%,

and then I get back here and I've already

lost about 15% because it takes like an

hour to get back here from the charging

station. And then

tomorrow I'll go for the viewing and then

I've got to drive nearly an hour and a

half or 2 hours. I've got to charge again.

And then when I finish my training

session, what if I get to the training

session, I need to charge and they're

like, Uh, you're supposed to be doing the

training, not sitting at the charger. And

then when I finish that, to get back here,

I gotta charge again.

It's so annoying.

Takes about— to do a 30% to 90%,

I usually do it to like 80%, so 30 to

80% charge cost about £15.

It's roughly maybe

120 miles range.

To be fair, if it was petrol, it would

cost the same. To do hundreds of miles in

petrol would also cost like £15, £20.

It's just that you don't have to keep

filling up your tank every 100 miles, and

also it takes 2 seconds to fill up your

tank, not 40 minutes, and it really starts

eating into your time. So you got to get

to this place which is 2 hours away, so

now you've got to factor in charging.

It's going to take you an extra 40

minutes. And then I got a car park fine

because I was in the car park too long

charging my car, and I didn't realize that

you would get fined. So I got fined £60.

Do a 360 camera spin of your room. I'm not

in my room. Yeah, imagine I just fake the

whole thing and I'm back in my room. That

would be pretty funny. I can't

really prove to you that I'm not in my

room because if I show this room, I end up

doxxing myself and I'll be in trouble.

I can't really show you an object because

the objects might be in the photo of the

advert. Yeah, then I guess you're

just gonna have to trust me.

Show my chair to prove it's not my room.

I can't because I'm not in my room.

Yeah, I don't really know how to prove

it's not fake. Um,

I am pretty worried because

I don't see a way out of this, to be

honest. I got to make more money over

12 months and I have to be able to show

them that I've made $31K or I have to hope

and pray that my savings will be able to—

I'll be able to negotiate with them.

I said I've got $12K savings. Would I be

able to pay upfront rent partially or

fully? Let's see what they say. I've got 6

more viewings. I got this really crappy

looking bungalow. It says no deposit

required, so maybe they're desperate.

It's not— it's probably my last choice,

but it's better than— I guess at the end

of the day, I'd rather pay $750 a month

for a crappy bungalow than a $1,500

serviced apartment, because then at least

I have my own space. It doesn't look

great, to be honest.

Also, it's like kind of attached to a

house, so the other people probably live

in the other half of the house.

The annoying thing about other people is I

find it really hard to make YouTube

content unless I'm alone because I feel

embarrassed. It's kind of a weird thing to

do, talking to a camera on your own.

It's like weird, isn't it?

I also, I don't like people to hear. I

don't like people being able to hear me

when I talk because it's private

conversation. I don't want people to hear

what I'm saying. That's why I speak very

quietly. I'm not like,

hey guys, welcome back to another— people

think I'm insane.

Yeah, I don't care if people hear me

online. That's the whole point of doing

it.

So yeah, I made £27 for an hour's work

So hopefully this new app

can give me a boost because I'm not really

enjoying Uber Eats right now.

I'm also a bit annoyed.

Well, not annoyed, maybe a bit— it's

just a disappointment, isn't it, that

Sunny got sick so I can't even see her

I booked this place because it was nearer

to where Sunny lives, and now I won't even

be able to see her. And then I'm going to

go and book this other place, which is

further away from Sunny.

It's not going well.

And then I filled out the application form

on the letting website for the house I saw

on Friday, and it just says awaiting

review. But that house

is more expensive than the bungalow.

So if they're going to say— I didn't even

make 2 times the rent because

it's £900 a month. It's probably going to

be like you need 2.5 times the rent. So

$27K. The only

trump card I have is offering to pay

upfront and seeing if they would accept

that or saying my mum's my guarantor, but

she's retired.

Yeah, this is a tricky situation.

Really wish I didn't get banned on Amazon

Flex now because I

was making like £400 a month. I mean, a

week on Amazon Flex. If I had that plus my

YouTube. Now I'm worried. I'm like

applying to all these different driving

jobs because Uber Eats alone is not good

enough. If only I had something that

could regularly give me shifts every day,

like Amazon. Maybe I'll go and apply for

the Amazon job where you drive the big

van, cuz that shouldn't be

Flex related. Like, I'll be banned on

Flex, but I can just still get an agency

job where they provide you a van. But I

don't want to drive a van.

Looks difficult.

Or maybe I'll get a job at the Amazon

warehouse.

I find it difficult to find how do you

apply for the Amazon warehouse job because

I don't see it on job websites.

And then when I go and look for a job on

the websites, all you see is

stuff like senior engineer,

biohazard lead technician.

All I see is like really difficult jobs.

That make $50K a year that obviously I

can't apply for. Where's all the

entry-level jobs? It's like they're not

advertised online. You got to go into town

and walk around and look for signs. I

don't see any jobs, stuff like, oh,

Pizza Hut pizza cooker.

All the job listings is just nonstop stuff

I can't do. A qualified

electrician with 20 years experience to

join our team.

Why can't they just have a website where

all the jobs are for people who don't have

any qualifications, where you just put the

chips in the bag?

Yeah, maybe warehouse stuff. But I'm

scared I'm gonna hurt my body. I hurt my

back just carrying Morrison bags.

The Job Centre.

Can I apply for benefits? Swallow your

pride, compose a sob story, and apply for

urgency at the council. If not that, then

at least apply for housing benefits to

supplement your income. Yeah, I might have

to look into that. I'm actually so stupid

and prideful with nothing to show for it.

Happy I didn't invite you for biryani.

What the hell even is housing benefits?

How can you apply for it when you're

already making as much as I do?

I thought that's for people who make

nothing. I don't make nothing. I make some

money.

Cheaper housing? What, like crap horrible

housing where you gotta share a room?

Yeah, I know how to apply for that

already. It's on the property websites.

You just filter by— you just put like £600

maximum and then all the crap holes pop

up.

Yo, I don't want to move back home. I want

to be an independent man with his own

place.

I have something a lot of other

people don't have. I have a special skill.

I have certain advantages over actual poor

people. Like, I've got a car. I can drive.

No, we're not special needs. I have a car

that's electric. Most poor people have to

walk everywhere and get the bus, which

limits their ability to make money. All I

gotta do is find more delivery work and

then I can utilize my car to profit.

And then I'll go live in a serviced

apartment. Don't need to rent no stupid

place. Take your deposit.

You see, you see, listen, if you rent a

place, you gotta pay deposit. That's like

£1,000, 5 weeks rent.

And you gotta buy your own furniture. I

gotta buy everything. I gotta buy a bed.

I gotta buy a chair. I gotta buy a table.

I gotta buy a fridge. You know, I've seen

3 places so far. Every single place didn't

have a fridge. There was no fridge.

There was no kettle. No air fryer.

No toaster. I gotta buy all this.

That'll cost like £2,000. I gotta buy

bedding, towels.

Um, what else? The problem is I need to

do laundry. This place I'm looking at now

doesn't have a washing machine, and this

place doesn't have a washing machine.

I've been wearing the same underwear for a

week now and it smells.

So I don't know where to do washing. In

the serviced apartment, there's no washing

machine either. I don't— I've

never seen coin laundries here like in

Japan. I might just put it all in the sink

and put washing up liquid and then rub it

together. So if I

get a serviced apartment, it's fully

furnished. I don't need to buy All this.

I might have to buy an air fryer because

I'm scared of using the oven.

Yeah, I'm just saying that if I do rent a

place, I've got, I've got to pay council

tax, I've got to pay bills, I've got to

pay internet, I've got to pay furniture,

I've got to pay all this stuff. But if I

get a serviced apartment is all included.

I don't have to pay bills, don't have to

pay council tax, uh, internet provided.

I got 1,000 gigabit internet download

speed here. I don't know how much it costs

them. I've never seen internet so fast

before, even in Asia.

That was pro— that must cost like £80 a

month. And they're letting me have the

heating on 24/7. So this place is

expensive, but Uh,

I do get all these perks, but the annoying

thing is they said I'm not allowed to

charge my EV here, even though the window

is literally right there next to my car

and the plug is right there. I could

actually plug it in now. Sneaky.

No, I wouldn't do that. They seem nice. I

don't know why they won't let me charge it

here. I could easily charge it here.

I'll just open that window and then I get

the charger out.

But yeah, they told me in the messages,

sorry, you can't charge your car here.

They don't want £50 a month on their bill.

I mean, I'd happily give them the £50

because I'm gonna have to pay hundreds a

month using public chargers.

Tesla Supercharger is way cheaper, but

it's just not near where

the places I go to are. Apart from

tomorrow, there's actually a Supercharger

nearby, so I'm gonna go and check out the

Supercharger, see if I can figure out how

to use it. 'Cause it is a lot cheaper than

other charging stations.

Why did you ask? I actually didn't ask,

they just said it as if

they knew I was driving an EV, which is— I

don't know, do you think they Googled my

name? It's okay,

I didn't really expect to be able to

charge. I just thought maybe I could have

asked and it would be a possibility.

And yeah, also, if I rent a place and buy

furniture, if I move out, I've got to move

my furniture again. That's going to be a

pain. So I wouldn't want to get any

furniture that's too big to fit in my car.

I would just get a futon and then I'll

sleep on the floor like a Japanese person.

And then I'd just roll up my futon and

then I'd get like a little table.

All the furniture I buy would have to fit

in the car.

Yeah, well, I just ditch it in a field

like the Irish people do. If you can't

beat them, join them.

I'm shocked these places don't have a

fridge. I gotta buy a fridge. I gotta buy

one of those little Japanese mini fridges,

the little square ones.

How much are they? They're like hundreds

of pounds. I can't live without a fridge.

Little fridge.

£90, pretty cheap. It's big enough,

I could put my milk, my ham. I don't

need a massive one. I guess fridge is not

really a problem. Little square thing.

I should have brought my little plug-in

fridge from my room. Do you remember that

little fridge I bought? Because I got

annoyed my mum kept having guests over.

Didn't really use that.

Used one off a marketplace? Ew, no.

Smells like cheese.

Hello, I'm an artist making a comic. I saw

your video from 2017. Am I okay to use

it? What, the thumbnail?

Yeah, I guess so. Why not? Be my guest.

Might as well let someone use it. It might

get some exposure.

So here are my 2 options: get service

department And then bust my balls doing

delivery work, or I buy a house for

$100K, like a crap hole,

and then I fix it up. What do you think?