Shrinking Canadian dollar
Wondering how the state of the Canadian dollar will effect other Canadians travel plans. It has made our site rental jump from $3,200 American to a payment of $4,022.60 Canadian. ouch!
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When we fully retire at 60 we will give up our US RV snowbird lifestyle and probably adapt to a Southern European RV snowbird lifestyle. Just the savings in health insurance cover the cost of the plane tickets to europe
....this is a huge trend here in our region. MANY near retirees and retirees (many former RVers) have discovered southern Europe that we personally know, and spend 3, 4, 6 months in Spain, southern France, Morocco, and numerous other locales. Most of our friends don't even bother to book long-term digs before going! They just fly over, and shop for the cheapest/best long-term rental (very easy to do in South Europe, because our "winter" season is their "low" season, so TONS of super deals are there for the taking). Also, many of our friends rent a small car in Southern Europe long term (really cheap, if you shop around).
Eg. we looked into it last month with our neighbor who does the same: we could get excellent long-term travel insurance fly to Spain, rent a nice 2 balcony apartment in a stunningly-beautiful mountain village overlooking the sea, eat fish/seafood and drive all over the country exploring for a fraction of the cost of RVing for the same time-frame in Florida or Arizona.
We've been camping a lot this summer......in our truck camper on our mountain property! I have to get that last year's gas out of our truck soon (fuel stabilizer only lasts about 12 months) LOL !
