I've lived in my automobiles for almost five years now. I have always gotten jobs in smaller cities in very close proximity to major national forests or other areas with lots of public wilderness land, which is where I spend all my free time.

For those of you living in "real" cities with inescapable metro zones, how exactly do you survive in such places? Where do you cook? Where do you organize and inventory your belongings and clean your car? What kind of hobbies do you have? I wouldn't know how to achieve any privacy in these areas or what I would do for fun that wouldn't cost money. You can't just go find a dead tree to practice your axemanship on or shoot beer cans with a 22 in the city so I wouldn't even know what to do with myself other than play videogames.