Disgruntled Millennials on the Road

I hope you are keeping your house just in case Full timing doesn't suit you.
bumpy

Suspect the number is fairly low but on the rise.
We are in our mid 50's, traveling full time and moving often since Dec 2015. We've seen a fair number of adults in our age group but majority is older. Our experience has seen few young couples and families that are full time.

We see a LOT of people your age in RV parks when we travel. But most of those are families on vacation. Not many that age have the luxury to full time and travel.

The number is on the rise. That's why the "Tiny House" has become popular and the "Minimalist" movement.

A good website with lots of helpful info regarding full time RVing is:
www.rv-dreams.com

The folks who own the website were in their 40's when they left good corporate jobs, sold everything and headed out on the road in an RV 12 years ago. Read through the posts on the website and learn what they have learned. They show their expenses for every month since they began.

I sent you a private message regarding my truck for sale.

You will see some younger people in military RV parks as they are "homesteaders" living in the RV park long term while on active duty. There are lots of weekend campers out there so you will meet up with a wide variety of campers. Keep in mind, military campgrounds usually have some sort of stay restrictions, many being 14 day limits.

When we were FT we met very few Full Timers younger then US (50's)

Mostly ones that could continue working via Internet....IT, web design etc.

FEW had 'income' without having to continue working.

Military bases WITH CGs are an option for you...might need to call/confirm as they are also now available to 'civilians' and seem to be popular

Check out 'PassPort America'----$44/year
Get 50% off daily rates ar participating CGs......there are restrictions (number of days, which days etc) BUT 50% off is good deal. Stay couple days and it covers yearly fee

Also Fairgrounds & City Parks.....sometimes they have CG sites and reasonable prices

COE (Corp Of Engineers) CGs.......really nice/good places to stay


If you have adequate income.....no reason to NOT go FT and travel
Regardless of AGE......most folks are very friendly
We had great experiences with folks of all ages.
Just need to be open and approach with a SMILE

Best of Luck!

Thanks for your service (You and Husbands BOTH) !!

Take a look at Campendium, which often has links to the blogs of people who contribute campsite reviews. Many are youngish couples living/working on the road. https://www.campendium.com/ You have to sign up for a free account to see the full records.

Google "millennials on the road full time RV". Some odd stuff there, but some that appears that it would be helpful to you.

#vanlife? Maybe a bit too non-mainstream for you?

YouTube has many video blogs of young fulltimers

I read somewhere that the Escapees RV club now has a sub-group for younger members, but cannot locate that info right now.
Edit: Found it! https://www.xscapers.com/about-us

Best of luck to you!

There are more and more young folks going full-time. With technology today, many can work from their RV and do so successfully. Good luck to you.

You might consider volunteering for national or state parks or wildlife refuges. Keeping busy helps and you'd be helping out in nice places. Just do it occasionally, not constantly. When you visit a park you like inquire while you're there. It's easier to get a position that way... at least we found it to be so. You will also see more younger people in public parks rather than RV parks.

LittleRed586 wrote:
I realize that this might seem like an odd post, but how many millennials are into the full time RV lifestyle?
My husband is in the process of being medically retired from the Air Force for a variety of health reasons and we are going to start RVing full time the day after he is formally retired. He is 36 and I am 31.
After a two year stint in South Korea we were sent to a base on the east coast. We bought a suburban house as an investment within a month of being stationed here. Yes, our house is nice but living in the suburbs just isn't for us. We don't know our neighbors, traffic is a mess, people are rude, our utility company is always losing our payment, my husband's PTSD goes crazy here and on and on. Basically, the whole lifestyle sucks!
We figured that the best option for us would be full time RVing. We have always wanted to see the country at our own pace. We were actually drooling over an MWR campground in Arkansas with cheap monthly rates. My mother-in-law keeps reminding us that we are only going to see older people in most campgrounds.
I figure that there has to be at least a few disgruntled millennials on the road. The whole living with less philosophy of my generation actually fits the full time RV lifestyle.
How many of my mid 20's to mid 30's peeps are at least looking to go on the road or are even on the road as I write this?

I've been expecting someone to post something like yours that provides introspection into this RV lifestyle.

When I decided to hop onto the bandwagon more than twenty years ago, I was mesmerized like a kid in a toy store. I even subscribed to Camping World monthly publication with pretty interesting articles about members' sojourn and interesting places they've visited.

The magazine was called Trailer Life. They did evolve into web content access with some funky web pages. I guess they couldn't hire web designers then because they were expensive. They charged by the page they create along with monthly maintenance fees. I thought this was just a part of a nascent business that will eventually improve, so it didn't bother me.

There was a guy in the editorial staff who answers questions regarding issues that members encounter especially technical stuff.

The answers were pretty well tailored to the questions being asked. He was knowledgeable and well respected. Being an engineer myself, I found his opinions were well within accepted engineering practices. Members were well behaved then and nobody seems to contradict one's opinion. It was like one big family.

All of these changed when new entrants got into the scene. It got so convoluted, it literally give a new meaning to the word “recreational”. It's no longer recreational, to me it is survival.

At first, when someone refers to “full timing” I say “wow, this guy must be having the best things in life”. As it turns out this wasn't the case. Some of these guys are living in their RVs because they either have no other option or other circumstances . . . and that is where the word “recreation” went to pot.

I'm not looking down on people who made this choice, believe me, I enjoy the camaraderie with these guys who sometimes offer me firewood for my fire ring.

Unless you enjoy dealing with their clothes line and old lawn chairs strewn next to your RV, not to mention dogs barking in the middle of the night then disregard this missive.

Not all Rvers fall under the description I described above. Some are simply just looking for ways to spend their money.

I bought my RV even before I retired. I have a fairly wide spread to accommodate a good size RV or an over sized trailer, so I didn't have to worry about storage.

As for millennials getting into the stage, I don't see much of them in places I've alluded to. Most I've seen are driving a 300,000 rig with small children on board and they usually stay only a few days.

Your M-I-L is absolutely right. You will see older people in RV Parks on fixed income unlike millennials who are on the move and making more money than those who belong to the baby boomer crowd.

Reality sometimes is hard to accept, and you are entitled to all info that might affect your supposedly chosen lifestyle. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy RVing and will continue to do so as long as my wife and I stay healthy enough.

Last but not least, I appreciate your husband's service to keep this country great.

PM if you need to talk more about it

All the best.

I can honestly say I've met only one disgruntled camper. Well, maybe 2 if you include that one little boy who got the spankin' of his life for throwing a rock at his sister! Now that was one very disgruntled little boy!

The only other one I've ever met was so bitter about life, and hated everything so much, well, there's just no way to describe him. He was way beyond 35 years old though.

Bottom line, every new "generation" has to pave their own way in this world. And every "generation" thinks they are re-creating the wheel. Truth be told, the wheel just keeps going round and round and round.

I find it funny that in the 1950's -1960's the sub-divided house with separate rooms for everything and every one was the "in" thing. Fast forward to the early 2000's and wide open floor plans with no walls at all with all the latest "upgrades" was the "in" thing.

Now, they are abandoning all that open space and once again reverting back to small spaces!

Yep, the wheel just keeps turning!