It's all relative to what some one wants. I've had a motor home and a travel trailer and now I have a hard sided pop up. The motorhome was the costliest to maintain, to find a place to store (on property or off site), costliest to operate and not surprisingly - the least expensive to purchase. We sized down to the travel trailer. It had everything and was nice but couldn't park it in the garage, towing was ok but it never felt great taking it out on my own...then I got the pop up. Awesome! It was more expensive than the travel trailer but the convenience it offered surpassed our previous rvs. With the rising gas costs, towing a lower profile unit is wonderful. Who cares it weighs as much as a traditional travel trailer - there's still a savings in gas as well as any storage cost - tuck that pop up into the garage and out of sight of the neighborhood CCR and protection from the weather.
Just because it's smaller doesn't mean it should be cheaper - that thinking should make diamond rings a dime a dozen.
