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Great lifestyle and impressive that their site holds up to the HN front page effect with heavy media assets. I think this kind of lifestyle will only get more

Great lifestyle and impressive that their site holds up to the HN front page effect with heavy media assets. I think this kind of lifestyle will only get more common and popular as younger people decide that the middle class dream of a large home and life in an office is not what they want. I made a similar decision to this couple, but instead of living in a van, my wife and I sold an expensive house on the beach and bought a very small house in the mountains (Sedona Arizona) 21 years ago. Except for working onsite for Google and Capital One for a total of just a few years, most of my time was enjoying life with occasional consulting work. Like the couple in this article, my wife and I decided that “leaving money on the table” and working much less was a good idea. As the nomad life style becomes more popular, I wonder if traditional RV park businesses will start to cater to people traveling and living in smaller vans.

lm28469 7y ago
> as younger people decide that the middle class dream of a large home and life in an office is not what they want. A lot (most?) young middle class people can't afford a large home anymore and I think that's one of the reasons all these alternative lifestyles are popping up in the last decade. edit: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/where-the-american-dream-goes-to-die-changes-in-house-prices-rents-and-incomes-since-1960-by-region-metro/ https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/where-the-american-dream...
madaxe_again 7y ago
My wife and I made the same decision - I sold most of my equity in my business, stuck the apartment in the city on Airbnb, and moved to an ancient water mill in the countryside near a backwater of a backwater. We spent three years wandering the earth, before settling down here - it’s only been a few months, but walking out straight into nature is glorious, rain or shine. I do a bit of consulting, maybe 20 days a year, and the Airbnb pays the mortgage and overheads at the apartment - a residential let wouldn’t, unfortunately. It’s a simple and quiet life, but we’re both less stressed and happier than we ever were in mechanistic life. I think we are at a tipping point - we have the technology and the means to make this kind of lifestyle possible. Only a few years ago having power and internet access here would have been impossible. Now, solar is cheap and easy, as is hydro (next project!), and sticking an LTE relay mast up a hill was a trivial job. We are still following an old way of thinking, in general, while we could instead be reaping the benefits of the technical uplift our society has realised, and living a life we left so long ago we barely remember it - but with modern comforts. This is a small home - a bedroom, a bathroom, a living room, a shed - 90sqm total. It’s everything we need. If we have a family, we build a cabin, or a yurt, and we expand our infrastructure as needed. We have hot and cold running water, more power than we can use, fast internet, underfloor heating (next week - working on it), and we’ve only been working and living here for two months. I can see myself living here indefinitely, and as a result of our vastly reduced overheads, even our reduced income gives us a sizeable budget for travel. I think it’s crazy to live any other way. So do an awful lot of others who have done or are doing the same as us - we’re far from alone in our direction.
ericmcer 7y ago
It's a Wordpress site so it should scale fine assuming they clicked on the right payment plan.
traveler1234 7y ago
Currently most RV parks are very discriminatory against people in vans or even older RV's. There's definitely a market for new places to appeal to these types of people

lm28469 7y ago

> as younger people decide that the middle class dream of a large home and life in an office is not what they want. A lot (most?) young middle class people can't afford a large home anymore and I think that's one of the reasons all these alternative lifestyles are popping up in the last decade. edit: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/where-the-american-dream-goes-to-die-changes-in-house-prices-rents-and-incomes-since-1960-by-region-metro/ https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/where-the-american-dream...

madaxe_again 7y ago

My wife and I made the same decision - I sold most of my equity in my business, stuck the apartment in the city on Airbnb, and moved to an ancient water mill in the countryside near a backwater of a backwater. We spent three years wandering the earth, before settling down here - it’s only been a few months, but walking out straight into nature is glorious, rain or shine. I do a bit of consulting, maybe 20 days a year, and the Airbnb pays the mortgage and overheads at the apartment - a residential let wouldn’t, unfortunately. It’s a simple and quiet life, but we’re both less stressed and happier than we ever were in mechanistic life. I think we are at a tipping point - we have the technology and the means to make this kind of lifestyle possible. Only a few years ago having power and internet access here would have been impossible. Now, solar is cheap and easy, as is hydro (next project!), and sticking an LTE relay mast up a hill was a trivial job. We are still following an old way of thinking, in general, while we could instead be reaping the benefits of the technical uplift our society has realised, and living a life we left so long ago we barely remember it - but with modern comforts. This is a small home - a bedroom, a bathroom, a living room, a shed - 90sqm total. It’s everything we need. If we have a family, we build a cabin, or a yurt, and we expand our infrastructure as needed. We have hot and cold running water, more power than we can use, fast internet, underfloor heating (next week - working on it), and we’ve only been working and living here for two months. I can see myself living here indefinitely, and as a result of our vastly reduced overheads, even our reduced income gives us a sizeable budget for travel. I think it’s crazy to live any other way. So do an awful lot of others who have done or are doing the same as us - we’re far from alone in our direction.

ericmcer 7y ago

It's a Wordpress site so it should scale fine assuming they clicked on the right payment plan.

traveler1234 7y ago

Currently most RV parks are very discriminatory against people in vans or even older RV's. There's definitely a market for new places to appeal to these types of people