• errer@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    It definitely CAN be cheaper but seems like a good fraction of people choose to live on the high hog and dump a ton of money into their vans. Also there’s just a ton of anxiety needing to move around constantly. Where are you exactly where that’s not a worry?

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      10 hours ago

      Also there’s just a ton of anxiety needing to move around constantly. Where are you exactly where that’s not a worry?

      Depends on your motivation to live in a van. My parents just moved into a pick up truck turned RV because they want to move a lot. Travel around, see the world as long as they still are able to. It’s not a thing to accomodate, it’s the real deal to them.
      (Though they are kind if priviledged they can afford this with an early retirement and by selling the house they owned.)

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      Yeh a lot of people do but I bought my van for 2 grand which was basically 2 months rent. There is definitely some anxiety in terms of I hope this shit doesn’t break down as it is also my house but then owning or renting a house also comes with different anxieties based on different things and the constantly moving around part I loved.

      I am UK based and just parked where ever I wanted to a point, as long as I was following the sign posted rules for parking up no one would say shit, parking is a civil matter here anyway so even if I had chosen to park somewhere that I was supposedly not meant to it isn’t technically illegal if it was public land and the cops aren’t coming out to do anything about it.