tropical36 wrote:
I guess I'm not qualified to answer here, but we could never even entertain those kind of thoughts and most sure we'd be really sorry if we ever did such a thing.
Even though, we're far from young, I keep thinking that when I can't handle this rig any longer, we're done. I mean If I'm incapable of maneuvering it around like I do now, then I probably should be on the road with anything.
As for going places and taking the house, we found that the tear down and setup, was actually the PITA and not so much with driving it to places.
Not to mention, we like the bus look and must say, that a C looks like an after thought to us. B not so bad in that dept. but again, most of what we saw in CG's found the occupants outside most of the time. Maybe that's a good thing too, for liking the great outdoors, but not so good in a two day rain.
Anyway, that's my take on it and hopefully you won't have to spend more for these would be inconveniences.
I have a class C (though I never owned a class A to downsize from), so I'm equally unqualified to answer, but in the opposite direction.
In many respects, a class C and a class A of similar size and budget tier are rather similar in use. Setting up and tearing down is about the same, and how involved it is depends to a great degree on how involved you make it. Setting up camp for me generally means pulling into the camp site, checking how level I am and deploying leveling ramps if needed, plugging in the power cord if it's an electric site, and putting out the welcome mat. That takes maybe five or ten minutes, depending on how tricky it is to get into the site. I've seen other people who spend a lot of time and energy putting out the awning, patio rug, chairs, grill, pink flamingoes, flagpole, etc. etc.; and if that's what they like, more power to them.
In my opinion, very few RVs look particularly attractive, but that's my opinion. The old GMC motorhomes do look pretty neat, even still. As to sitting inside vs. outside, the interiors of class C's and (equivalent) class A's are not especially different, so sitting inside vs. outside is probably more a matter of what the owner's prefer than anything. (There are few if any class C's that would be as nice as a top of the line Prevost coach conversion, of course, just like few small hatchbacks approach the interior opulence of a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.)
Driving a class C is a little bit different than a class A, but not really a great deal easier or harder. Both are tall, wide, rather ponderous vehicles requiring care in maneuvering and generous allowances of room for acceleration and braking. Many class C's do have particularly bad minimum turning radii and fairly long tail overhangs, which means that maneuvering in close quarters can be rather difficult. In general highway driving, I find the width probably the least comfortable part to deal with, particularly in construction zones where the Jersey barriers often seem terribly close, as they also would in a class A.
The driving compartment of some class A's certainly may
look rather more intimidating than the cab of a class C; some seem to be designed with the aesthetic of a NASA mission control panel (with added honey oak accents).
