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Originally Posted by Icelander
I think mine and Polydamas' point is that it isn't, really. Unless you somehow have enough cash on hand to survive for as long as you need to hide, which might be years or the rest of your life, then you're going to need enough of a new identity to be able to get a job, a place to live, etc.
At our TL8, in the countries most of us reading are living, people don't just carry that much cash with them and society increasingly assumes that anyone without credit cards, picture ID, bank accounts and credit ratings are either criminals or at least enough of a bad risk so that no one wants them living on their property or working for them.
After all, if you can't charge their card for damages, what will you do if the reason they didn't want to show ID is that they planned to steal everything in the room that wasn't nailed down and trash most of the rest?
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Its damned hard to live entirely off gird but the e US is a little different as there still are communities where cash is king. . In Europe, its all small and compact and baring exceptional skills and safe houses or in some countries probably the ability to operate in some no go zones can keep someone safe.
The US has a sizable homeless population at the minimum of half a million though and probably in the tens of millions of undocumented people. There are places to go though for a free meal and a sermon though the quality of life will be low. This can be done by anyone who has any skill even dabbler in streetwise , or urban survival or at least one point in area knowledge and with an easy fast talk/diplomacy roll in the right places
If you meet the criteria there are effective no go zones for the police as well though they are more likely minority
Its also possible to operate on mostly a cash basis as a fair number of people will rent you a room and a lot of them prefer cash as they won't report it to the tax authorities You'll need fast talk or diplomacy to pull it off in some cases
This will not stop an all out enemy of the state man hunt or really determined hunters but people can be hard to find for a while.
The rest of the developed world is not like this though.
The skills for this are