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Surviving On Just $1 In New York - Day 1
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Mar 27, 2025
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Alright, so I just go into New York City and I only have $5 on me to survive
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Alright, this is my first time in America, never been before so it should be a fun experience
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Okay, so right now I'm at Penn Station. I spoke to the guy at the airport, he goes, go to Penn Station and you'll be able to get everywhere from there
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So right now I'm here. I just need to figure out where to go, how to get food, where to sleep, where to freaking shower, how to fricking survive, or $5
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First thing I want to do is find somewhere to access the internet. Once I can connect to the internet, I can get my whereabouts, know the lays of the land
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and know what resources I can possibly use to survive. So right after that, I found a few vouchers or promotions I can use
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So free cheeseburger with every one pound or more purchased at Burger King
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Free any size fries with purchase. All I really have to spend is my $1 to get either free cheeseburger
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for free fries. I found something which looks more promising. It's from Raisin Cain's and it's for
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combo box meal if you sign up to their club card. So we're gonna try that first. If that
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doesn't work then we'll go to Burger King and spend our one dollar. Now the guys at the airport
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were giving me a proper grilling. I've been to 25 countries and nowhere else
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Have I been treated like a criminal before I get into the country
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I'm like mate I'm from England why would I would have stay here
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Honestly this is incredible it's like the New York you see in the movies
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Sorry, I just brought to him into somebody Hey hello Look what I found 99 cents pizza
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So at least now we'll find a few resources we'll use to survive
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over the next few days i'm going to have to mice that pizza cut it into three slices
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and have it for breakfast lunch and dinner all the chaos and commotion is definitely real
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you only get this in oxford street back home here it's everywhere out sorry out out
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It's bloody beautiful The size of everything here is just massive
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Like I can't even explain it This is so surreal If there weren't seats
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You wouldn't think it was a restaurant Okay so the offer says
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I need to grab one of their loyalty cards and then use it to register, and then after that I get the combo box mail
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So here's the... Thank you so much. So I need to find so where to sit down
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Preferably quiet where I can get through this. I just received an email from them
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It was thanks for confirming your Canada Club registration. You should receive an email confirming your free box combo in two days
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Don't, don't. I thought this would be an easy transaction. I register
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You give me my food. so at least we've got that going
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so over the next two days that should come through right now we're probably going to head
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to Burger King I'm trying to use I'm trying to use this
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alright so the cheeseburger offer I can only order via the mobile app
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and since I have my money in cash that might be a little bit difficult
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but there's another offer for fries which I can order in the store
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and spend my $1. The problem is I need to buy something
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for $1 to be able to get it. Because your order total must be
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0.01 cents to redeem this offer. But they don't offer anything for 0.01 cents
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So you see how they get in there. So you need to buy something. Now the cheapest thing to buy in store
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is sauce, which is about 50 cents. So I buy a 50 cents sauce
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I get fries to go with my sauce and I have 50 cents left
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to spoil myself. Probably just go for the price. No, it says any size, right
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Price and size. So I'll go for the largest one you have. Thank you
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Thank you. Now, you see, the thing is you hear a lot about American food sizes
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with the grandiose and like extra grande. I was hoping to get like a really grand amount of prize
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A really grande amount of prize But this will have to do Alright that was for just a teaser that did not film me up in the slightest
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But I might have found something else. So there's this Instagram account called New York for free and they post loads of freebies around New York
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I've just seen a post about a free. hot chocolate and cookies at Porcelanos in flat iron I've looked on Google Maps and
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that is about 12 minutes away from here so why not let's please
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alright so I just saw a lady walking a dog and I gave her
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my information in case you need some dog walking like I'm scared I don't think I'm gonna be able to survive
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but four dollars for at least four dollars seventy five cents so it's best for me to start making
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contacts and start putting myself out there so I can actually make some real money you guys you guys
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Happy days, it's not going so bad at all today, is it
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I ain't to stop fafing about. I need to find out where to sleep tonight
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Or the energy of this video is about to turn and about to cry. Sorry
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Right, I've just seen someone sleeping in. um, Starbucks. So we know where to go if all hell fails. New York has some freaky, freaky stuff
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going on. I've just gone on couch surfing and all I can see is naked comedy, naked game night. I'm like
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what is going on here? I put my trip on couch surfing saying I'm going to be here from today
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for the next five days. And surprisingly, right, of all the places I've traveled to, I've never got in this
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type of response people have just messaged me like i've not had to message people and beg them to sleep
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on this so far people have genuinely just messaged me like hi toba welcome to new york what brings me
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i'm enjoying new york i'm like what the is going to i started to get a little bit so first
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thing i want to do is find somewhere to drop my bag off then i can keep exploring into the night
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Hopefully you guys have some free clubs that I can walk into because right now all I have is 75 cents Sents
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I've got some people that I'm chatting to on couch surfing I haven't like committed to anything
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I kind of just want to go with the floor and see how things pan out although I feel like couch surfing is a bit of a cop-out
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because if I find someone on couch surfing now they offer me a place to stay for the next five days
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becomes less of a challenge. So I kind of won a bit of a challenge, you know. So the
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hustle I found is a bit far away. It's about 20 minutes on a train and an hour walking. So
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we're going to head into the subway. Okay so I'm not sure how the barriers work here
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Coffee days. I spoke to the train inspector, he goes, I'm going the wrong way, but I can take it two stops to west up and then go back to the other side
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I'm not sure where the other side is, but we're about to find out. This is the subway
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I mean, I must give them props for their subway systems. system it's pretty easy it's like a B C D E F you know the like complicated
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names Elizabeth Lyde Piquadilly line I keep saying it's so surreal because it looks
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exactly as it looks in the movies see I'm on a New York subway we are off
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Just need to figure out the coming out of the station, Kalaava
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Alright so this area I in right now looks a bit dodge Kind of feels like the hood
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And I mean, it's a shame that I don't really know this area, so I don't know where to avoid at night
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Like where to go, where not to go. Like, what the ? I'm walking out of a camera
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I'm going to be sleeping on the streets. I don't know where to go. Can you imagine? The local
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Alright so I've dropped my bag off. I've got my little tag. Now I want to explore the city a little bit more and see what you know what a Saturday night is like in New York City
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All right so I'm still at the hostel. I found an event which is a Friday night party. I keep saying today's Saturday. Today's Friday
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A Friday night party and I've signed up. And it says if you come before 11, you get free entry and a complimentary free drink
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So happy days. That's so it. So around 10pm, we'll start heading there
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Right now it's 6. So I'm going to head out, try and find dinner
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And then try and see what else there is in New York City before this
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But yeah, this is the hostel. It's pretty chill. There's like a guy just, he's been sleeping there for like
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the past hours so I'm guessing like they're not like too fuss here oh it's
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miserable it's wet it is raining here I'm gonna be doing the same thing I'm
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so sorry I don't have any money on me I would pay otherwise yeah thank you thanks
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It wasn't too fast. It was here, go ahead. Let's get some change, please
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This is all I have left to grab dinner. 75 cents. I'm not able to show it in 75 cents
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All right, so I've just walked into a shop. I want to try my lock and see where I can get with my 75 cents
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So I have 73 cents. What can I get with 73 cents
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No. Can I get like, are there places anywhere here that I can get anything
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I literally have no one. Are you not from here? No. Where are you from
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All right, so nothing in there for $75. Actually, she's told me $73, not $75
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I should have figured that one out with the three pennies. Okay, so I have $0.73
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And I was wondering, is there anything at all? Is there anything I can get for $0
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Is there anything I can get for $0. No, what's the cheapest thing I can get
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A drink. How about like food, like substance? No. Where can I get one dollar pizza
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I see. Like that way. Are you sure? Just straight down. Yeah, okay, okay
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Alright, so I found a pizza shop. Unfortunately, they don't have the 99 cent pizzas
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The pizza starts at $3.00. That's $3. Okay, so I'm trying to find the cheapest, most substantial thing that I can buy, right
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I've got 73 cents. So is there anything I can buy that's cheap, what's also filling
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No. 73 cents though? No? What's the cheapest? This is $3.26. $3.26
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Yep. Trying to find something for 73 cents. Yeah, you can take a banana, that's what I told you, man. Banana
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Yeah, it's 75 cents, banana I can give you for 73 cents. Can I take two bananas for 73 cents
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I'm sorry, man. So it seems all I can really get for the rest of my budget is a banana
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Alright, so I'm currently in McDonald's. I was trying to find a deal that McDonald's
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find a deal that McDonald's had that maybe I could spend 75 cents to get a free burger
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And then I went back on the Burger King app and found that I have 254 crowns, which equates
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to one cheeseburger for free. So a cheeseburger cost 250 crowns and I've got two 54. I must
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have missed that earlier, but I'm happy I missed it earlier because I was starving
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Right, this is the scene at the moment. I feel like I'm reporting something
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Except this is like just everyday New York Back day in your car Back Back
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Hello. Hello. I came to within my free cheeseburger. I'm going to savor this
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I'm going to savor this like they do in our celebrity. when they haven't eaten for weeks
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Alright, so there's this huge cube at Madison Square Park and apparently it's interactive
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So if you touch it, it should react. There it is. Alright, let's see
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I've seen someone touch it and then it reacts to their touch. through security. Yeah
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Yeah, no either. All right, so we're in. We've got one free drink
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Let's see what the scene is like. On why, there's no need to worry
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Okay, so now you can see why they're offering free drinks for people arriving before 11
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It's absolutely empty. Now this is the top, the rooftop. We're like no one's here
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except this one person that's like smoking and stuff I've just collected my free
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I'm not sure what it is but I've asked it to make it nice and extra strong
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because I'm gonna need it to get through this one like So it's currently 1.30 a.m
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The club closes out 4. My intention was to stay till 4, but there's like just no vibe in there
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And I'm getting really tired. So I'm just going to head back to the hostel where I left my bag
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and kind of just hang around there in the lobby area and see what happens
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If I get kicked out, then I get kicked out. Hopefully I don't
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143 a.m. I'm at the subway. I try to make my way to the hostel
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It's currently 220 a.m. Finally got into the station so I'm on the way to the hostel
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I don't know where to go. I'm kind of just hiding in the toilet
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I don't want to go downstairs because if I stay there, then they might just ask, oh, are you staying here
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So, you know, so I'm going to walk around upstairs and see what I can find
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All right, so there's a corridor here with some pillows on the floor
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and there's one camera but the camera is facing the door so it shouldn't get me so the only way
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I can get kicked out I can get in trouble is if someone's sleeping in these rooms
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comes up and goes and goes in real close to me
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sign up and I'll see you guys tomorrow like this video give a big thumbs up hit the subscribe button share with everyone
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and I'll see you in the next row
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