Month long stays w/o the rv
I have seen folks in here comment about month long stays in some potential snowbird areas with local motels and apartments. We are not done with the house so cant go full time yet but were looking n...
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We spend a month or so several times per year. We typically do airbnb but there are other similar sites.
- Make sure you look at the pictures with a critical eye. While we have never found a fraudulent advertisement, we have seen lots that get creative. Usually it's just taking the photos from an angle to make it look bigger than it really is or something like, there is sleeping for 4 and they show two pictures of the same bedroom with different covers on the bed, so you assume it's a different bedroom. The other two spots are the pull out couch.
With a lot of these snowbird areas is it's prime time so rental apartments will be a bit pricey for only a month (they are better off locking someone in for 3-5 months).
Unless you are dead set on Southern USA, seriously consider overseas. It's easy to get by without a car as transit is cheap, reliable and goes everywhere.
You would be surprised how cheap it is to stay longer term.
Do look at the weather. Rome for example is only 50-70 for daytime highs mid winter but that counts for the USA also. Myrtle Beach isn't beach weather in January but a heck of a lot better than Chicago. Some locations we've stayed over the last few years:
- Merida Mexico
- Barcelona Spain
- Rome Italy
- Athens Greece
- Prague, Czeck Repbulic and Viena, Austria (go in Nov/Dec for Christmas Markets)
- Bangkok Thailand
- Make sure you look at the pictures with a critical eye. While we have never found a fraudulent advertisement, we have seen lots that get creative. Usually it's just taking the photos from an angle to make it look bigger than it really is or something like, there is sleeping for 4 and they show two pictures of the same bedroom with different covers on the bed, so you assume it's a different bedroom. The other two spots are the pull out couch.
With a lot of these snowbird areas is it's prime time so rental apartments will be a bit pricey for only a month (they are better off locking someone in for 3-5 months).
Unless you are dead set on Southern USA, seriously consider overseas. It's easy to get by without a car as transit is cheap, reliable and goes everywhere.
You would be surprised how cheap it is to stay longer term.
Do look at the weather. Rome for example is only 50-70 for daytime highs mid winter but that counts for the USA also. Myrtle Beach isn't beach weather in January but a heck of a lot better than Chicago. Some locations we've stayed over the last few years:
- Merida Mexico
- Barcelona Spain
- Rome Italy
- Athens Greece
- Prague, Czeck Repbulic and Viena, Austria (go in Nov/Dec for Christmas Markets)
- Bangkok Thailand
