12 tusen per månad, bo i usa?

Dubbed "the last free place" by its residents, the infamous encampment is holding on to its anarchic roots


The isolated desert community was created by transient, freedom-seeking people .......
, all living off the grid in trailers, tents, lean-tos, and broken-down school buses in a remote patch of the Sonoran Desert

But despite its wild appearance, Slab City has undergone a significant transformation in the last few years. Now its population swells to a few thousand people in the winter months and roughly 150 in the summer,

Spyder, for one, credits the existence of his mini desert empire to the anarchic nature of Slab City. “In a big city I could never own anything like this,” he says. “They have too many laws about what to do, what not to do. Out here nobody tells me what to do.”

Spyder has 12 people staying in his camp, plus his wife and kids. He charges each person $125 a month in exchange for daily breakfasts and dinners. Ponderosa also boasts its own outhouse and an outdoor shower facility.