Re: At what point do state and national campgrounds become big RV parks?
I don't buy that folks are coming in droves with RV's to save money. You mean people are paying $500-$600+ a month to rent a pad to put their $100,000+ (often, many of them) RV's on a pad to save money? I just don't buy it. Not with so many 'senior apartments' available for super low costs (Anti-discrimination laws DO make exceptions for housing communities restricted to seniors!).
Now, personally, I don't get the big motorcoach thing, myself. I know a guy who has a very large, freightliner based, $230,000 coach. He has had it for years, and it only has one destination. The same park, every single time, near a lake where he has a boat on a slip. Same location, every time. Why not just buy a house in that area? That and, it's a weird middle ground. It's an expensive way to camp, but a cramped way to live. It's all the pleasures of a small apartment, and all the cost of a decent sized home. Just doesn't make sense. At least, not for the folks who live in them but don't go anywhere or who go to the same place each time. Traveling the country, new destination every few days, living in the RV 24/7? Now that I get, that would be cool. But so many are not so!
I admit though, crowded campgrounds are just not so great. But sometimes you can find good ones. Everything from loud obnoxious party goers to huge RV's and their generators (thought the small cheapie generators people power their tents with are far worse). It's crowded, yuck. But there are still some good ones out there, a little more off the beaten path!
I don't buy that folks are coming in droves with RV's to save money. You mean people are paying $500-$600+ a month to rent a pad to put their $100,000+ (often, many of them) RV's on a pad to save money? I just don't buy it. Not with so many 'senior apartments' available for super low costs (Anti-discrimination laws DO make exceptions for housing communities restricted to seniors!).
Now, personally, I don't get the big motorcoach thing, myself. I know a guy who has a very large, freightliner based, $230,000 coach. He has had it for years, and it only has one destination. The same park, every single time, near a lake where he has a boat on a slip. Same location, every time. Why not just buy a house in that area? That and, it's a weird middle ground. It's an expensive way to camp, but a cramped way to live. It's all the pleasures of a small apartment, and all the cost of a decent sized home. Just doesn't make sense. At least, not for the folks who live in them but don't go anywhere or who go to the same place each time. Traveling the country, new destination every few days, living in the RV 24/7? Now that I get, that would be cool. But so many are not so!
I admit though, crowded campgrounds are just not so great. But sometimes you can find good ones. Everything from loud obnoxious party goers to huge RV's and their generators (thought the small cheapie generators people power their tents with are far worse). It's crowded, yuck. But there are still some good ones out there, a little more off the beaten path!
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