Meet Eva Outram, UK woman who quit her $58,000 NHS job after surviving 23 days in the wilderness; now lives in a caravan, teaches outdoor skills and saves $3,200 a month
How they save around $3,200 every month
Before moving into the caravan, their reported monthly expenses included a mortgage of about £800, ground rent of £150, bills of £315 and food expenses of approximately £40. Together, these amounted to around £1,305 a month. Their reported regular expenses include gas costing about £40 every few months and a weekly food shop of approximately £85. Outram and Park estimate that they can save around £2,500 each month, equivalent to roughly $3,200 at the exchange rate used in AS USA’s report.
The financial difference between their former and current lifestyles is substantial, according to Outram’s account. Under their current arrangement, they have no accommodation costs, and the farm provides electricity and water. The figure represents their combined savings rather than Outram’s individual earnings.
For 23 days, Eva Outram lived in the Canadian wilderness, where finding food, surviving without modern comforts and dealing with isolation became part of her daily routine. But when the 28-year-old British woman returned home from the survival reality show ‘Alone’, it was not the wilderness she wanted to leave behind. She eventually quit her $58,000-a-year job with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), moved into a caravan with her partner and embraced a life centred on outdoor adventures. Today, the couple say they save around $3,200 every month. Her annual salary was about $58,000, but mortgage payments, bills and other living expenses left her feeling as though she was working primarily to maintain her lifestyle. She purchased her Leeds flat in October 2022, but the financial commitments associated with it soon began to feel restrictive.
Outram had been working as an NHS project manager and living in a two-bedroom flat in Leeds, England, according to reports by PEOPLE. “I had always had an inkling that the traditional way of living wasn’t for me, but I was on the conveyor belt of going to university and getting a good job,” she told PEOPLE. She described spending a year in the flat feeling as though she was on a “hamster wheel” of working to pay the mortgage.
Instead, she began questioning the life she had built around a steady job, a mortgage and the expectation that success meant settling into a conventional routine. Outram had followed a familiar path: getting an education, finding a stable job and buying a home. Her appearance on ‘Alone’ gave her an opportunity to step away from that routine and examine the choices she had made. The experience also brought her closer to the outdoors, where everyday comforts were no longer guaranteed and survival depended on resourcefulness.