Living in a motor home
Can any boby tell me if they permantly live in a motor home and if there is any pit falls to doing this.
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http://www.motorhome365.com/forum/ & there are books to support and shape thoughts on the reality of full-timing
i hope this helps
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Can any boby tell me if they permantly live in a motor home and if there is any pit falls to doing this.
One major breakdown or one minor road traffic accident and you are homeless.
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Can any boby tell me if they permantly live in a motor home and if there is any pit falls to doing this.
Write your comments here...Having to return to the U.K for M.O.T !!
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We are not full time but half and half, 6 months away and 6 months at home. we have been doing this for 16 years and it many good points.
No big heating bills in the winter, this pays for the diesel there and back.
Getting away from UK winters is good for your health
Lower cost of living in Spain and Portugal
If and when it getsto much age and health wise we still have a bolt hole back in the UK.
Horses for coarses.
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Did it for eight years, and would do so again no bother.
When it's off the road, you need a plan - eg a local site with a static to hire or a good friend!
Russ
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Can any boby tell me if they permantly live in a motor home and if there is any pit falls to doing this.
I've been touring for a few months now in Southern Europe as do lots of locals.
once you have filled up & emptied tanks, cupboards and fridge a few times its as routine as living anywhere else.
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They didn't ask that.
I live in mine and based my reply on personal experience.
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........ suggestion to checkout motorhome365 should provide plenty of answers.....
Just seems to be mostly a group that want to spend winter in Spain amongst expats in prison camps and don't even bother asking what motorhome to buy there as they just say whatever they own except for one fool who suggests a caravan
and pick up truck.Write your comments here...
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They didn't ask that.
I live in mine and based my reply on personal experience.
sorry, that was just my interpretation of the op...
....the 'pitfalls' they asked about (to me) meant more to do with leaving their former life behind, rather than whether they got used to 'physically' managing to 'survive' in their van, though, as you say, this is still a perfectly valid part of the change....
I quoted the part I wished to reply to in my post, didn't know I should reply to every point.
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is there such a thing as an "average monthly cost" to living in a motorhome? I'm still on the treadmill but am hoping this will be a way off it! Am thinking:-
30 nights at @ £15 per = £450
Travel no more than 400 miles per month = £100
Annual running repairs/tyres etc.. = £150
Insurance = £50
Food = £300So realstically a £1500 per month should give us some headroom... am I way off?
Ignoring depreciation of course..
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Craig ,you figures don't really represent a true figure !!
Annuall running costs---Depends on how much you would have used the vehicle otherwise.
Insurance---would be covered anyway as normal.
Food ---you would have to purchase anyway ,at home or abroad..
The travel has to be proportioned as to how much you would have done anyway ,U.K or E.U.
Then again ,,,are you recieving any pension or investments income? this could set of the costs considerably too.
Many "vanners" tour for many months,winter and summer,U.K and E.U .It's not just the expenses of touring full time ,but a lifestyle enhancing experience too.Good luck and ENJOY !! Pete.
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Well there sort of real, on the basis of not wanting to compare against anything else as for example I probably drink far more coffee 'because' I work :-) just interested in how much it averages out to be in motorhomers experience.
I read a cracking blog of a young couple doing Europe in a year in a 2nd hand panel van conversion for less than £10k... amazing.. good on them!!!
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