Comment by bee_rider

Comment by bee_rider 3 days ago

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Someone should do a startup that focuses on designing a sort of RV that can be mass produced, for millenials, genZ, and so on. Maybe they could be modular, link them up for communal living, that sort of thing.

Climate change isn’t going to be stopped. Don’t get tied to some dirt that’ll be inhospitable before too long. And houses are generally full of obsolete crap anyway, like bad electric wiring, rooms without ethernet, and big empty rooms that need to be inefficiently climate controlled.

Tech folks should really lead the way on this. If you are remote and have a high wage, why don’t you live in some futuristic RV off in some idyllic countryside?

OneDeuxTriSeiGo 3 days ago

This is pretty naive. RVs are almost as infamous as boats are as giant pits for burning money. They are perpetual maintenance hell in a way that houses rarely are.

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ugh123 3 days ago

Fully agreed, there is a major opportunity with younger people but it would still take cultural shift, rather than just technological change. Someone, maybe a popular influencer(s), would sell it (ideologically) the best, rather than traditional marketing.

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tehjoker 3 days ago

This sounds like gold plating the refugee lifestyle

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TheBlight 3 days ago

Have you lived in an RV for very long? After a few days it kind of sucks.

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  • bee_rider 3 days ago

    ~6 months (in an RV, not a more hospitable mobile home). I’ve had worse apartments. Not through winter, though. Millions of people have more experience than me (I’m sure) but a couple days is a pretty low bar.

    I’d definitely say it wasn’t ideal, the waste situation was certainly not great without a septic tank hook-up! But it is a something that can be iterated on. NIMBYs, on the other hand, there just isn’t any traction there at all.

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    • ares623 3 days ago

      I'm sure there's an order of magnitude difference between living in an RV for a few days _knowing_ it's temporary (or at least hoping it is), vs living in one knowing it's permanent. You make completely different choices and take on a different mentality.

      It's like all the UBI tests. It's not meaningful if the participants know the UBI will stop after a certain period.

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danny_codes 3 days ago

Plumbing is nice. Definitely prefer to have plumbing. And rooms.

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