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RV's are superior to houses. They are cheap, mobile and easier to maintain. What are your toughts?

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[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)
  • Cheap - mortgage level, not cash. They’re damn expensive. It’s a depreciating asset.
  • Mobile - only if fuel is dirt cheap. You’re limited in where you can drive by their lack of maneuverability and severely limited in parking by laws and convention.
  • Easy to maintain - no building codes mean no consistency, so you’re guessing all the time, and the build quality on these things is pretty awful. There’s no space to work, and it’s go the added pain in the ass of a whole truck to maintain too. And a generator. Built to last for perhaps 10 years, but with no provisions for renewal - a house roof with shingles lasts 25-50 years and is easily replaced. An RV roof lasts 10 years before sealing starts to give out if not less and needs structural disassembly to repair in many cases.

At the end of the day you’re cooking on a pull out camp stove and shitting in the bucket hidden under the couch. It’s no life for me.

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 17 hours ago

A friend of mine worked as a welder at an RV/camper/trailer manufacturer and he said he'd never buy one. They only cared about quantity. Most of the welds weren't much more than tack welds.

[-] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago

Yeah its like space data centers. The idea is cool but there are problems we just can't solve, physics gets in the way.

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