RV's are superior to houses. They are cheap, mobile and easier to maintain. What are your toughts?
Depends on what you mean by traditional housing. I, for one, hope to live in a place that's very dense, far more so than RVs could ever be. Mixed-use skyscrapers are far more environmentally-friendly (per person, of course), much cheaper (tiny energy costs, because your insulation is your neighbor's entire home; tiny transportation costs, because everything is within walking distance), and much more convenient.
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.
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.
Yeah its like space data centers. The idea is cool but there are problems we just can't solve, physics gets in the way.
They are cheaper to buy, but the quality and durability of everything makes them expensive. Things wear out or break fast. Everything is sealed with shitty sealant that is prone to cracking and leaking, and needs to be resealed every 3-5 years. If there is a leak, the moisture stays trapped and starts rotting out everything. The roofs are covered with a thin membrane that breaks down from the elements and UV, and can get holes ripped in it from twigs. Fuel to travel is expensive. RV parks are somewhat expensive. Poor insulation and inefficient HVAC. Heating and cooking (and water heating and sometimes refrigeration) with small propane tanks is inconvenient and somewhat expensive. Some full time RVers find it costs more than before they started doing RV full time.
There are good quality RVs that mitigate some of these issues (Airstreams and Class A), but they cost as much as houses in some areas in the US.
Yea, its cool and convenient until you get t-boned in an intersection and become not only car-less, but homeless, and all your shit is broken.
I'm not sure I have heard anyone say RVs are easy to maintain before!
In the situation you are describing is the RV parked somewhere, or moving place-to-place? What is being done with the waste? How is water obtained?
Are there like anarchist RV squats / living spaces in other parts of the world? Atleast in Germany and some other european countries they are a decently common way of self organized living:
I'm planning on building a solar yacht and country hopping and having a mostly sovereign life, like this guy.
sometimes, it's hard to tell irony online
Three words: generator noise pollution
You can handle all day if you live in somewhere that doesn't need HVAC every night with those camper battery thingy and solar panels.
Mobile living has its issues. From having a mailing address to a long list of repairs or maintenance issues that will require you to find space to deal with. Pets can be difficult, kids are a logistic problem with no end. Also, your home will never increase in value, while costing as much as a mortgage.
Lots of people in my generation getting mortgages. That's a sensible comparison.
Counterpoint: Is the USA-style quarter-acre single family property really "traditional housing"? Seems more a symptom of the US brand of colonialist propaganda ("Manifest destiny") to me. It's a simulacra of a farmstead, and not really traditional at all.
Anyway I actually disagree about RVs. For what they get you, RVs are not cheap. 100sqft or so of claustrophobia. And not necessarily easy to maintain. And because they are motor vehicles, they have an expected useful lifespan that is probably below an order of magnitude shorter than your typical single family stick build. Essentially they're land yachts.
Damn I'm still editing my typos, I'm not even done writing the comment, and someone already downvoted me. I got haters.
i agree that you have an opinion.. but im not goin past that.
good luck!
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it doesn't apply to everyone but i think a very common need that people have is to feel settled. it may manifest in different ways from having some deep connection to the land to just wanting not to worry about moving again (and again). RV, caravan, houseboat type living will suit many but ultimately relies on other owners of facilities to provide parking, charging, waste disposal etc. it's fun and cheap and adventurous but for many or most can't be forever
I agree, but if you have kids or a lot of pets can be an issue. Also a lot of states are raging war against rv and not easy to find places to park them.
Edit: this comes from family own RV parks. You would be shocked how the cities and counties fight these parks being available. At the same time making it illegal to park one in a residential neighborhoods.
In the US the only systematic avenue to entering the middle class is owning land. Not the fault of RVs, I just live in a dystopia.
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