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how #vanlife made mobile living a middle-class aspiration

Written by Bronwyn Eager, Senior Lecturer Freelancing, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship, University of Tasmania

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Announce to your friends and family that you’re choosing to live in your vehicle and you’re likely to raise some concern.

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