tldr: RV entry fee is lowww, it’s all about practicality, not privilege.
the RV entry fee?
the US has a huuuge 2ndhand RV market, and a lot of suburbanites will gladly take a few grand for you to take their RV off their land.
i got mine from a couple who lived in an rv for a year, saved their down payment, then bought a house.
there are a lot of ads asking people to come take away RVs for free on CL because the owners can’t be bothered to check if the vehicles work.
for a no hassle drive off the lot, ready to rock rv , 5k will get you a decent house on wheels, after which point anything you’re bringing in is savings.
you can get puttering RVs for a couple grand.
a few jobs by rv owners I knew: one dude worked at t mobile, one girl was a barback, guys were retired, one lady had an etsy shop, Walmart workers, a mechanic, so on.
people living their lives how they want to live them without being forced to trade away their lives to pay rent.
not a ton of privilege there, i didn’t know any tech bros.
i did know one guy who was some kind of programmer, but in my experience, RVs are
much more about practicality than privilege.
Mine was about 5k, sold to me by an electrician saving for a house, i added the solar, then there are minimal expenses in a fully paid-off house, so anything i brought in that i didn’t spend on food, utilities, or repairs was savings.
i had no repairs for the first half a year, that repair was a $30 fuel pump, so savings were good!
pfft, here, case in point:
running, clean title, 99k miles class C, but house windows and interior decisions are missing, so it only costs $1500!
1500 plus some scrap plywood and paint?
house.
surplus solar panels, inverter, battery? 500 bucks tops, free electricity from them on.
invest what is less than one month of rent in a lot of cities into an RV and then stop paying rent altogether.
tldr: RV entry fee is lowww, it’s all about practicality, not privilege.
the RV entry fee?
the US has a huuuge 2ndhand RV market, and a lot of suburbanites will gladly take a few grand for you to take their RV off their land.
i got mine from a couple who lived in an rv for a year, saved their down payment, then bought a house.
there are a lot of ads asking people to come take away RVs for free on CL because the owners can’t be bothered to check if the vehicles work.
for a no hassle drive off the lot, ready to rock rv , 5k will get you a decent house on wheels, after which point anything you’re bringing in is savings.
you can get puttering RVs for a couple grand.
a few jobs by rv owners I knew: one dude worked at t mobile, one girl was a barback, guys were retired, one lady had an etsy shop, Walmart workers, a mechanic, so on.
people living their lives how they want to live them without being forced to trade away their lives to pay rent.
not a ton of privilege there, i didn’t know any tech bros.
i did know one guy who was some kind of programmer, but in my experience, RVs are much more about practicality than privilege.
Mine was about 5k, sold to me by an electrician saving for a house, i added the solar, then there are minimal expenses in a fully paid-off house, so anything i brought in that i didn’t spend on food, utilities, or repairs was savings.
i had no repairs for the first half a year, that repair was a $30 fuel pump, so savings were good!
pfft, here, case in point:
running, clean title, 99k miles class C, but house windows and interior decisions are missing, so it only costs $1500!
1500 plus some scrap plywood and paint?
house.
surplus solar panels, inverter, battery? 500 bucks tops, free electricity from them on.
invest what is less than one month of rent in a lot of cities into an RV and then stop paying rent altogether.
RVs are the best!