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.
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.
You want all these things for much cheaper and safer?
Rent a shitty studio apartment and pay in cash for a motorcycle or e-bike that you can fit a tent kit and camping stove into the cargo panniers/mounts for.
Much easier maintenance, much less expensive, pretty high amount of mobility.
At least in the US right now, a decent but cheap motorcycle like a Royal Enfield costs around the same or even less than a lot of E Bikes… more range out of a motorcycle, higher speeds, but more fuel and maintenance costs.
And you’d have to get insurance for the motorcycle, and get a motorcycle drivers liscense certification in most (all?) states.
… nothing compared to the maintenance time or costs an RV will give you though.
… Also if your RV is large enough, you might actually have to get a kind of special cert on your liscense for that as well, in some states, maybe?
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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.
Yep.
You want all these things for much cheaper and safer?
Rent a shitty studio apartment and pay in cash for a motorcycle or e-bike that you can fit a tent kit and camping stove into the cargo panniers/mounts for.
Much easier maintenance, much less expensive, pretty high amount of mobility.
Best deal, E bike you could store in the apartment. Well, if you trust it not to catch fire.
Pretty much.
At least in the US right now, a decent but cheap motorcycle like a Royal Enfield costs around the same or even less than a lot of E Bikes… more range out of a motorcycle, higher speeds, but more fuel and maintenance costs.
And you’d have to get insurance for the motorcycle, and get a motorcycle drivers liscense certification in most (all?) states.
… nothing compared to the maintenance time or costs an RV will give you though.
… Also if your RV is large enough, you might actually have to get a kind of special cert on your liscense for that as well, in some states, maybe?
Yeah its like space data centers. The idea is cool but there are problems we just can’t solve, physics gets in the way.