Liu who is 39yrs is basically called the snail-man because he moves around with his so portable "posh" house. according to him, his life fell apart some six-years-ago when he lost his job after his father died, and his marriage broke up and his wife left him.
He tried alot to gety out of the depression so he decided to go picking garbage and recycling it.
His idea of the portable house was to save cost of accommodation when he travel to the neighboring cities for his little business, because if he needs to rent a place, the amount of money left with him wouldn't be that much to sustain him.
Liu walks to Liuzhou in central China's Guangxi Autonomous Region to collect rubbish to sell for recycling
Liu acctually appreciates being called the snail man and when asked he said:
'I came up
with the idea of making a makeshift home that I could just move around
easily,' 'And now I put it on my back, and walk to the city
where I spend a while collecting garbage and selling it.
'When
I've collected enough, I then walk back home again. It means I have to
pay nothing on accommodation and nothing on travel either.'
'I
covered it in plastic flowers and tidied it up so that even when I stop
in a posh district, it does not look out of place. In fact I even make
some money now with people paying me to take photographs. I tell them
it's my
penthouse, it may be small but it's home and it works.'
While his shell remain in its full form while he's in the city, Liu can in fact break in down for his long journey home.
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