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ThePatriot
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May 12, 2015

Living in an RV Full Time in Myrtle Beach

I just took a job in the Myrtle Beach area and will be moving down there by myself (family can't move until next year). I was thinking about buying a Class A or a TT and living in it for the next year when I'd buy a home. I was thinking it would be warm enough for year round living. But, RV parks seem to be a bit pricy. Has anyone lived full-time in this area? Any suggestions on locations? Is this viable? I was thinking it would be fun...but maybe not.

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  • Allworth wrote:
    Unless you have the good fortune to be able to abandon work for a few days and pull out in the event a storm approaches (i.e. Ana with 80mph winds night before last) you will need to be in a place that allows extensive (and expensive) tie-downs.

    Even then I wouldn't want to ride out the wind and rain in a TT and I've been in some pretty severe thunderstorms from time to time while traveling.


    Ana had top winds of 50 MPH when it went ashore at Myrtle Beach
  • Unless you have the good fortune to be able to abandon work for a few days and pull out in the event a storm approaches (i.e. Ana with 80mph winds night before last) you will need to be in a place that allows extensive (and expensive) tie-downs.

    Even then I wouldn't want to ride out the wind and rain in a TT and I've been in some pretty severe thunderstorms from time to time while traveling.
  • You are 'moving' to a tourist area, and RV parks are going to be pricy. Because they only have a few months per year to make their money, and they sit pretty empty the rest of the time.

    However, when we drove thru that area in late March, there seemed to be a lot of retirement mobile home parks - residential models or regular mobile homes.

    It might be cheaper to look if any of those will take an RV sized trailer - or might haves some units folks are selling for good prices.