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The number of people who have a summer home is extremely high. Having two dishes, or one dish that can be used from two set points is very attractive. Lots of p
by freeopinion 5y ago
The number of people who have a summer home is extremely high. Having two dishes, or one dish that can be used from two set points is very attractive. Lots of people spend the summer "at the cabin" even when the cabin isn't in the Hamptons.
Or they may live out of a motor home, but it only moves to travel between their regular winter destination and their regular summer destination. They stay in the same two parks all year except for the 4 days of travel in between.
Millions of USians fall into these two demographics. I'm sure plenty outside the US do, too.
- BugWatch 5y agoOff topic, but thank you for the "USians" part (I've been using "US-'icans" for years).
- lotsofpulp 5y agoHas “American” gone out of style?
- ZGDUwpqEWpUZ 5y agoI can remember "USians" being in use since at least as far back as the 90s. It's just a cute way of acknowledging there's more to the Americas than just the US.
- fortyseven 5y agoSomehow I missed that for over 40 years.
- joe-collins 5y ago> According to NAHB estimates, the total count of second homes was 7.5 million https://eyeonhousing.org/2020/10/nations-stock-of-second-homes-2/ https://eyeonhousing.org/2020/10/nations-stock-of-second-hom... > The United States had an official resident population of 331,449,281 on April 1, 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State... https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data/apportionment/apportionment-2020-tableA.pdf https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data... I'm not saying 7.5M isn't a market that might be worth chasing, but at the same time, I would hardly call 2% of the population "extremely high".
- fastaguy88 5y agoI’m guessing most of those summer cabins host at least two people. So maybe 5%.
- joe-collins 5y agoThe numbers are 14 years older, but this report offers a more specific breakdown of the type of second home. Only ~40% of second homes are seasonal. https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/spring2004/article_USHMC-04Q1.pdf https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/spring2004/article...
- freeopinion 5y agoNearly 10% of the local ISPs' subscribers are motor home snowbirds. They don't show up in NAHB statistics. Homeowner snowbirds increase that number. Starlink is definitely a matter of attention for local ISPs.
- oxplot 5y ago> one dish that can be used from two set points is very attractive You can do that today with the cheaper dish! See my sibling comment.