Is this completely ridiculous?
Hello there, I'm brand new to this forum. My husband and I (along with our two little boys) currently own a 1700sf home in upstate NY. I have to tell you, I thought I would enjoy home ownership, but I actually hate it with every fiber of my being. Most of all, I hate feeling trapped in this one location. Secondly, I hate feeling like no matter how much maintenance we do, and how many upgrades we can squeeze out of our budget, there's still more that needs to be done than we can ever get to. In short, it's choking the life out of me.
I've spent most of the time we've lived here (4.5 years) trying to figure out a way out that makes sense. We could rent and share walls with people to save a buck (uuuuuuugh), or we could rent a house and still be trapped in one location and have to move all of our stuff every time we get sick of it (which I can guarantee would happen often). Then I read on a homeschooling forum that I'm a member of that some people actually live in RV's with their children. I have to admit, this idea makes me giddy.
My husband and I are not complete strangers to RVing. My parents owned a small RV when I was a teenager, and my inlaws owned a travel trailer. So, we both grew up camping, for what that's worth.
But before I research any further, I need to know if my idea is plausible. I understand that it is basically not possible to live this far north in an RV. We get a ton of snow and regularly have negative temperatures. We worry about the pipes IN our house freezing in the winter, even though it's heated regularly, so I would never consider living in an RV here. However...my husband may be able to transfer to Charlottesville Virginia, where it is considerably warmer. He can also likely do some of his work remotely to make traveling regularly possible, with Charlottesville as our base. I'm just not sure about their temperatures. It looks like their climate is considerably warmer than what we have here, but for a few months out of the year their lows are in the upper 20's/lower 30's while the highs are around the upper 40's. Is that kind of weather too cold for RV living? I have read that there are "arctic packages" available. Would something like that make the idea more worth considering? I know we'd be fine during the day, but obviously we wouldn't want to suffer at night. We'd probably be fine heating it to about 60 at night, a little warmer during the day. Is it difficult to heat to about 30 degree's warmer than the air temperature outside?
Thank you!
I've spent most of the time we've lived here (4.5 years) trying to figure out a way out that makes sense. We could rent and share walls with people to save a buck (uuuuuuugh), or we could rent a house and still be trapped in one location and have to move all of our stuff every time we get sick of it (which I can guarantee would happen often). Then I read on a homeschooling forum that I'm a member of that some people actually live in RV's with their children. I have to admit, this idea makes me giddy.
My husband and I are not complete strangers to RVing. My parents owned a small RV when I was a teenager, and my inlaws owned a travel trailer. So, we both grew up camping, for what that's worth.
But before I research any further, I need to know if my idea is plausible. I understand that it is basically not possible to live this far north in an RV. We get a ton of snow and regularly have negative temperatures. We worry about the pipes IN our house freezing in the winter, even though it's heated regularly, so I would never consider living in an RV here. However...my husband may be able to transfer to Charlottesville Virginia, where it is considerably warmer. He can also likely do some of his work remotely to make traveling regularly possible, with Charlottesville as our base. I'm just not sure about their temperatures. It looks like their climate is considerably warmer than what we have here, but for a few months out of the year their lows are in the upper 20's/lower 30's while the highs are around the upper 40's. Is that kind of weather too cold for RV living? I have read that there are "arctic packages" available. Would something like that make the idea more worth considering? I know we'd be fine during the day, but obviously we wouldn't want to suffer at night. We'd probably be fine heating it to about 60 at night, a little warmer during the day. Is it difficult to heat to about 30 degree's warmer than the air temperature outside?
Thank you!
