RVs are so comfortable these days that more people than ever have sold or moved out of their permanent “stick” homes to live full-time in an RV. And now with so much opportunity to work remotely from anywhere, the pace is increasing.
Just look at the photo above! No, it’s not a traditional home, but a motorhome. In a hour or two, it can be packed up, its slides pulled in, and the residents on their way to a different place—a few miles down the road or a few hundred miles.
How hard would it be for you to live in this? We’ll take a wild guess that 80 to 90 percent of the world’s population would gladly jump at the opportunity, and it would be a huge improvement over where they lived before.
So what about you? How easily would it be for you to live in this (or something similar) as your one and only home? Please leave a comment after you vote.
Maybe if I was single and left all my hobbies behind.
I could do it easier than the wife could. I read many years ago that a women see the home as a reflection of who she is where a man sees it as a man place they live.
That has merit…I can see that.
I’m a packrat. Have far too many books to fit on a Kindle. Clothing wise no problem I like a small wardrobe. Also don’t want to leave my vegetable garden. Right now harvesting sugar snap and pigeon peas and the potatoes have just sprouted
We have lived full-time for three years in our 21-foot travel trailer. Love it.
We’ve been living fulltime in our 34ft 5th wheel for 14 years. Now we’ve parked the 5er & continue traveling in a triple slide truck camper. So we now spend about 4 months in the 5er & 8 months in the truck camper. We’re totally happy in either one.
What I would have to do would be to own/lease a spot with a pole barn & FHU as a place where I could do seasonal maintenance or refits with all the tools. Wouldn’t have a house per se. But thinking ahead, there will be a time to settle into our final home and give up the RV. We are looking for that spot while we are more able to do so.
I agree need a shop to stay at for maintenance and repairs
We began scaling down in 2019 with the sale of our home then went full time in 2021, supposedly for two years of travel. We are in the midst of planning year four’s trip!
I haven’t missed anything from home! Our MH is functional, and comfortable, for the two of us.
I’d have to sacrifice my wife; and don’t think I haven’t considered it!
I tried pushing her into a volcano once, but it spit her out…
She didn’t meet the virgin requirement!
Sven: This should be the laugh of the day! Thanks.
I could with some sacrifices but my wife of 57 years would never give up her sticks and stones home. She needs a permanent home with her stuff around her.
We’ve lived in ours for over a year at a time (not by choice). If my stix & brix collapsed, we could do it – because we had to. Otherwise – nope.
I could do it but why?
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the stress of living months on end in my “tiny home” that can live off grid and requires extensive route preparation. I love having to worry where it will be parked every single day it’s out of the barn. Will it fit? How’s the road? Where’s the dump? What’s gonna break next?
But not every.single.month.
Sooner or later, everyone comes off the road.
Whether one parks their rig in a trailer park or sells it off, we all come off the road. An RV that no longer raises its jacks isn’t an RV, it’s an “R” (residence) in my book which is a good definition of an immobile domicile.
We lived in RV #1 (43′ DP) for 8 months in 2017 while our current house was being built. I could do that again, but it would not be “rainbows and butterflies.” My attachment to my weighty hobbies (baseball and football card collections and my many books on sports, local history (east Tennessee), and economics) would require some excruciating reductions. We certainly would have to upsize from our current 36′ DP to a 43′ or 45′ DP to give DW and I separate bathrooms and more room for stuff. As a practical matter, we’d never do it. Our attachments to east Tennessee are too strong. Safe travels! 🙂
We love our home and acreage with it’s beautiful river views and abundant outdoor opportunities.
The question I ask myself is why I have an RV that depreciates, breaks, and is a money pit. 😉🙂 OK…I know why, but I’m not living in it.
I could probably live in the RV full time if there were no other choice, but in reality would prefer living in the house and using the RV as our temporary get away from home.
I could do it if it was just me but the Princess Shopalot has veto power. I’m just happy for the hundred or so nights a year we do get.
Hope your healing up good Bill.
Healing up slowly, but progressing ! Up to about a mile on one of my walks this week !! Thanks for checking Cancel.
Not in THIS particular fancy schmancy RV, but I can easily imagine living in my cozy Toyota Sienna minivan!
No way. I can’t live without creating, I need my woodshop!
We did for 8 years and loved every moment! Easy, peasy!
I’d need space (a tractor trailer size shed) for my “hobbies” to make that work. I also wouldn’t want a fancy RV like the one pictured. My old motorhome is my “great escape”
We could do it in our 40′ motorhome pulling the enclosed cargo trailer but would need to sell some toys and several cars. That would be okay but we would miss those toys and vehicles. Hope it is never a necessity until we are too old to play.
We did it for seven years. I liked it better than wife. We first downsized by getting rid of house, office building, and 90+% of our possessions.
My family took me and my sister on camping trips when we were in diapers. We traveled and camped with our own kids and now we are camping with our grand kids, waiting for the day they are traveling with us too by RV. We like living space and now retired; 2,200 sq. ft. is just right for two old adults. Especially when weather keeps us indoors.
I sold my last house in 1992 and have been living in an RV full time ever since. I just couldn’t bring myself to be stuck in a non-movable house again. My first one was a 31-foot Bounder for 8 years, then a 36-foot HitchHiker for 7 years and now a 26-foot Lazy Daze since 2006. I’m as happy as though I had good sense. :>)
After living in our 36 ft 5 th wheel for 2 yrs , with 2 65 lb dogs, I found it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. We learned what was really needed and what was “extra”. The hardest part was the holidays. I love to decorate everything!
It would be in a permanent spot for me.
We did it for over 13+ years. Now we are Part-Time RVers but could revert back in a heartbeat.
We planned that for 15 years before I retired, when the retirement finally arrived my late DW said no way”I’m not living in that trailer the rest of my life 2 weeks at a time is enough”. So we didn’t, DW passed away 9 years ago, now my lovely new DW are talking about selling everything and buying another motorhome and travel until we can’t and enjoying the life we have left, we are octogenarians in good health and may only have a few years left but we’d be happy for those few years and maybe see some of our beautiful country before we die.
Wife, her cat, my dog, and I could never make it long term in our RV – a small Class B! 🙂
After 10 years of extended travel in two different 5th wheels from 2004-14, my husband and I went full time in the second RV from 2014-17. We really enjoyed traveling all over N. America (and got along quite well in the relatively small space) but bought another house in 2017 for a variety of reasons. We wintered in the desert SW in the RV in 2018-19, then sold it. We have no regrets either for full-timing or for buying another house. Both lifestyles were/are right for us at the time.
Wish I would have done it years ago!