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Do I REALLY Live In An RV? And for God’s Sake WHY?

Friday, 25 October 2019, 16:45 MJA Uncategorized 30

I get it.
But, would I live in one if I didn’t need to? I couldn’t.
How about you?

30 Comments on Do I REALLY Live In An RV? And for God’s Sake WHY?

  2. Maybe, but I’d have a few requirements first. In addition to high-speed internet (natch) it’d have to have
    — armor
    — armament
    — ammo storage
    — quick-change panels to alter color scheme
    — a stack of license plates from all 50 states
    — beer cooler

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  3. I’m w/ you Mary Jane …. only if I had to … my idea of ‘roughing it’ is staying at Holiday Inn

    @Uncle Al ~ you don’t want an RV, you want a Bradley 😉

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  10. The kids and I spend a lot of weekends in one or the other of ours. The little one is a 1973 Compact II like this one:
    https://www.vintagecampertrailers.com/for-sale/1973-compact-ii-by-hunter
    My bigger one is a 2011 Forest River Stealth SS2216, like this one:
    https://www.shoppok.com/denver/a,38,197938,2012-Forest-River-Stealth-Toy-Hauler—Like-New—-22000–Thornton-.htm
    Would I want to live in them for an extended period of time? No, I don’t think so.

    This weekend my ten year old daughter and I will be in the bigger one hunting deer and the little one is put away already for the next five months. The bigger one will be used for another month and then put away until mid March.

    From March – Oct/Nov we use them constantly, but I wouldn’t want to live in something that size for an extended period.

    I would like nothing better than to have a fifth wheel and something like an F450 to hit the road with for a month or six weeks at a stretch though.

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  12. I hate urban campers. What this gentleman describes is something a bit more idyllic than the norm for most urban motorhome dwellers. I tire of being the grumpy old man having to call police dispatch because some bum has parked his/her clapped-out piece of trash in the neighborhood. It is bad enough when some jerk cleans out their car and leaves the trash in the gutter. When these bums clean house, they leave mounds of refuse that block the sidewalk. They often do not have the sense to move after they do it.

    These motorhome bums are usually the vanguard, testing the resolve of residents and law enforcement. If they find suitable territory, they call the teaming hordes with their obamaphones and soon the area is inundated with shopping carts, plastic tarps and human excrement.

    I suspect there is a local advocacy group that helps bums get barely functioning motorhomes. They also get them bicycles and bus passes so they can spread through the valley easier.

    Being homeless does not make one a pariah. Behaving like a pariah makes one a pariah.

    All that being said, my oldest sister, facing a her own housing crisis, was seriously looking into the motorhome or living-out-of your-car lifestyle. Fortunately, it never got that far, and I don’t think her children would have let her, in any case.

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  17. I would for sure. The two-story/picket fence/yard for the kids dream was gobbled up by the boomer gluttony, greed and narcissism. New generations will have to adapt. I think it would be great if you can find yourself a 9 month a year job.

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  20. I always thought I’d get an RV after I retired. Then, we had to live in one in our front yard for a year while we gutted and rebuilt our flooded home after Hurricane Harvey. I never want to see another one.

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  22. @AC Parker, at first I thought you might live somewhere near me. I live very close to the beach and we get those RVs, of which you speak, in our neighborhood sometimes. I think the sheriffs got so tired of me calling them that they started ticketing and towing the unregistered vehicles, making the others move on then put up signs on the main road prohibiting vehicles over 6′. It’s much better now. It’s never the nice RVs. They go to the RV parks like they are suppose to!

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  24. ‘RV’ is a HUGE category.

    Recreational vehicles, motorhomes, trailers, piggy backs on pickups and teardrops, that all, to me, fall in the ‘RV’ classification, then there is mobile homes which is really completely different in that it is STATIONARY.

    I went on my first cross country trip in a piggy back in a Ford 100 in ’85 with three other friends, but I was much younger and did not give a shit be cramped in hindsight: The Bronx to Seaside, OR, via the Grand Canyon and back, 10,000 miles total.

    It’s very interesting growing up and still living more or less where I do now. You tend not to see too many of them on the local highways but drive the to the south, midwest or west and they are all over the place. For some its’s a lifestyle. That’s why I get a big kick out of seeing one EVERY single time on the road.

    I had an aunt and uncle that did their early retirement in a motorhome traveling around.

    Could I live in one you ask @BFH? Maybe it would depend on the amenities, and some of what @ uncle al’s specifications are!

    In the series Trapper John MD, TJ lived in a motorhome outside the hospital. He would sit in a chaise lounge on top of it drinking.

    CCR, Green River, was the song we listened to on that ’85 trip:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5V9nK7-OkM

    Play this as loud as you can stand it….and yes HAPPY FRIDAY.

    Gives me the goose bumps every single time I hear, so much going on in that song.

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  26. Still living at home…now alone. I live in my foster parents home, they’re both gone now as is my wife. Have a garage with a pit in it, a small shop next to it where I make printed circuit boards. Had a 35ft RV, its gone now too. I could live in an RV, but not for more than a few months. I’m used to the space I have along with the computer clutter. Basically happy, except for Washington.

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  27. Beach Girl and I live in a travel trailer part time throughout the year. I bought it when I retired in 2018. After a few months, we return to the house. I need space and a bathtub: The biggest problem we have is lack of storage.

    !We have met some very interesting people on the road. We will probably head out west in the spring for a month or so., then to the northeast.

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