Is this a trend in the rv lifestyle?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/many-older-americans-are-living-a-desperate-nomadic-life-2017-11-06
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If this was posted earlier, I missed it. I read the article now and think the author is approaching this subject from a very one-sided outlook. I find it humourous that she tried RVing / workcamping? for only 1 week and couldn't take it any more. I think that says it all about this article. Everything else is just biased.
I think there are many more folks full timing and work camping and are very happy with their situation. Back in the late 1990's and early 2000's ... shoot! We ALL got hit with the economic down-turn. None of us were left unaffected, regardless if we were bank CEO's or migrant workers picking tomatoes!
Personally, I think the trend for the "nomadic lifestyle" has always existed. It's just, with today's technology and easy access to electronic media, we're just hearing about it more.
This is nothing new, in my opinion.
Edit:
I remember the year was around 1967. My parents had a travel trailer. They went to a Square Dance Convention near Louisville, Kentucky and we stayed at a campground. I remember it was pretty basic, just somewhere to park the camper and had a bathhouse. Water from a single spigot for the entire campground.
After a couple days, the little campground was over run with a group of gypsies. Yes, "gypsies" and I'm not being bigoted here! They were a group of the old style gypsies, with the colorful clothes and played music all night long with their instruments and danced like there was no tomorrow. I was fascinated, having never seen anything like this before.
They were a nomadic group, traveling all across the country, looking for work wherever they could find it. It took me years and years later to understand, even a glimpse, of the "gypsy" lifestyle. But the fact is, this "nomadic" lifestyle goes all the way back to Adam in the Bible. It's nothing new or anything to be startled about.
I think there are many more folks full timing and work camping and are very happy with their situation. Back in the late 1990's and early 2000's ... shoot! We ALL got hit with the economic down-turn. None of us were left unaffected, regardless if we were bank CEO's or migrant workers picking tomatoes!
Personally, I think the trend for the "nomadic lifestyle" has always existed. It's just, with today's technology and easy access to electronic media, we're just hearing about it more.
This is nothing new, in my opinion.
Edit:
I remember the year was around 1967. My parents had a travel trailer. They went to a Square Dance Convention near Louisville, Kentucky and we stayed at a campground. I remember it was pretty basic, just somewhere to park the camper and had a bathhouse. Water from a single spigot for the entire campground.
After a couple days, the little campground was over run with a group of gypsies. Yes, "gypsies" and I'm not being bigoted here! They were a group of the old style gypsies, with the colorful clothes and played music all night long with their instruments and danced like there was no tomorrow. I was fascinated, having never seen anything like this before.
They were a nomadic group, traveling all across the country, looking for work wherever they could find it. It took me years and years later to understand, even a glimpse, of the "gypsy" lifestyle. But the fact is, this "nomadic" lifestyle goes all the way back to Adam in the Bible. It's nothing new or anything to be startled about.
