Spiky Bugger
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Yes but...
We lived in a "retirement community," of over 9000 people, the overwhelming majority of whom were, at one time anyway, able to purchase their "apartments" in cash. Most probably sold their primary home, bought into the cash-only apartments, and had cash left over. So they bought an RV.
There are over 300 of them parked in an uncovered space in the RV lot on the property. Super cheap parking...like $10/foot/year. So a 35' rig costs $350/year to park.
A FEW...very, very few, ever move. And most that do move, do so in a group. They go about five miles and eat breakfast together at a city-owned golf-club-related restaurant with cheap food. Then they would "saddle up" and drive all the way to beachside parking spaces (called campsites, because the city let you park overnight), maybe 15 miles away. Then they did potluck-type meals, lots of booze, and card games. In the morning, it was group breakfast and nothing else I remember.
There were other adventures...to exciting locations like an Elks Lodge an hour or so south.
Not my kind of deal.
Anyway, I don't know how many of the RVs can actually travel anywhere...or how many were constructed this century. But if I wanted to TRY RV life, I'd try to rent or purchase one from folks in a retirement community.
I've never been a social club person. Did what was necessary...scout leader, PTA, school board stuff. But never went to join the knitting club. So in old age, I just got MORE like me, and my only IRL activity is tbe annual neighborhood watch meeting. They have free tacos.
We lived in a "retirement community," of over 9000 people, the overwhelming majority of whom were, at one time anyway, able to purchase their "apartments" in cash. Most probably sold their primary home, bought into the cash-only apartments, and had cash left over. So they bought an RV.
There are over 300 of them parked in an uncovered space in the RV lot on the property. Super cheap parking...like $10/foot/year. So a 35' rig costs $350/year to park.
A FEW...very, very few, ever move. And most that do move, do so in a group. They go about five miles and eat breakfast together at a city-owned golf-club-related restaurant with cheap food. Then they would "saddle up" and drive all the way to beachside parking spaces (called campsites, because the city let you park overnight), maybe 15 miles away. Then they did potluck-type meals, lots of booze, and card games. In the morning, it was group breakfast and nothing else I remember.
There were other adventures...to exciting locations like an Elks Lodge an hour or so south.
Not my kind of deal.
Anyway, I don't know how many of the RVs can actually travel anywhere...or how many were constructed this century. But if I wanted to TRY RV life, I'd try to rent or purchase one from folks in a retirement community.
I've never been a social club person. Did what was necessary...scout leader, PTA, school board stuff. But never went to join the knitting club. So in old age, I just got MORE like me, and my only IRL activity is tbe annual neighborhood watch meeting. They have free tacos.
