Follow up to living in RV by necessity
In the spring of this year I posted about a dilemma I had about the high cost of housing in Boise, ID. We thought about living in our RV temporarily to find other housing or decide if we were going to...
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Glad to hear your happy ending also. I heard that some of those wiped out by wildfire recently, or their families, have RVs and moved into them. That really made me appreciate the idea of having an emergency home just waiting to be needed, such a blessing when it is.
As for unimaginative assumptions about people who live in RVs, we have relatives by marriage who have a small motor home and 1 mobile home on the water and own at least 5 stick-built homes that they rent and/or help young relatives get a start with, plus other investments. They live in the RV and MH as and where it suits them as their versions of home bases and travel the rest of the world the rest of the time. Those who imagine people living in an RV must be without resources are mistaken. Many are, however, without a need to put on a show for the world.
We have an elderly friend who, similarly, gifted the properties he and his wife had accumulated to their children and went to live in an elderly once-mobile home (reminds me of Lucy and Desi's long, long trailer) in a rather decrepit-looking park on a river where an old friend lives. His children will inherit the rest of his still considerable estate when he's gone.
We have a too-large main home, etcetera, right now. It's actually quite nice to know about ourselves, though, that we could be happy and comfortable, as many are, supporting ourselves in very modest accommodation. We're not dead yet -- we still could be hit by one of those storms of medical and other problems that wipe out the estates of so many. Possessions to show the world we're "worthy" and those they draw are discardable, a little room to garden, books and nearby fishing not. :)
I completely agree with those who say people should not be congratulating themselves on having the good fortune to live in an era of exploding productivity, which leaves most people who work steadily but not terribly hard for a few decades, who save a fraction of what they could, and who aren't seriously unlucky, reasonably prosperous at the end. We're among the most and know we're among humanity's very fortunate ones.
As for unimaginative assumptions about people who live in RVs, we have relatives by marriage who have a small motor home and 1 mobile home on the water and own at least 5 stick-built homes that they rent and/or help young relatives get a start with, plus other investments. They live in the RV and MH as and where it suits them as their versions of home bases and travel the rest of the world the rest of the time. Those who imagine people living in an RV must be without resources are mistaken. Many are, however, without a need to put on a show for the world.
We have an elderly friend who, similarly, gifted the properties he and his wife had accumulated to their children and went to live in an elderly once-mobile home (reminds me of Lucy and Desi's long, long trailer) in a rather decrepit-looking park on a river where an old friend lives. His children will inherit the rest of his still considerable estate when he's gone.
We have a too-large main home, etcetera, right now. It's actually quite nice to know about ourselves, though, that we could be happy and comfortable, as many are, supporting ourselves in very modest accommodation. We're not dead yet -- we still could be hit by one of those storms of medical and other problems that wipe out the estates of so many. Possessions to show the world we're "worthy" and those they draw are discardable, a little room to garden, books and nearby fishing not. :)
I completely agree with those who say people should not be congratulating themselves on having the good fortune to live in an era of exploding productivity, which leaves most people who work steadily but not terribly hard for a few decades, who save a fraction of what they could, and who aren't seriously unlucky, reasonably prosperous at the end. We're among the most and know we're among humanity's very fortunate ones.
