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A new kind of van life: $180 to camp for seven months – and a real taste of freedom
As the US sees rapidly housing costs, nomads flock to the public lands of Quartzsite, Arizona, where a person can legally live for more than half a year
Every autumn across North America, migration begins.
And across the continent’s highways and desert roads, another migration gathers – this one made not of birds or fish, but of humans.
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Story and photographs by Joshua Jackson · Tue, May 5, 2026, 4:00 AM
US news | The Guardian
As the US sees rapidly housing costs, nomads flock to the public lands of Quartzsite, Arizona, where a person can legally live for more than half a year
Every autumn across North America, migration begins.
And across the continent’s highways and desert roads, another migration gathers – this one made not of birds or fish, but of humans.
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