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Yea, its cool and convenient until you get t-boned in an intersection and become not only car-less, but homeless, and all your shit is broken.

Depends on what you mean by traditional housing. I, for one, hope to live in a place that’s very dense, far more so than RVs could ever be. Mixed-use skyscrapers are far more environmentally-friendly (per person, of course), much cheaper (tiny energy costs, because your insulation is your neighbor’s entire home; tiny transportation costs, because everything is within walking distance), and much more convenient.

Are there like anarchist RV squats / living spaces in other parts of the world? Atleast in Germany and some other european countries they are a decently common way of self organized living:

I managed to stumble into traditional home ownership by sheer dumb luck and its not the great achievement talking heads make it out to be. Its done more to make me hate the commodification of what should be a basic human right more than the year or so I spent homeless as a kid.

You get told by everyone that its the ultimate signifier of financial security and independence but all I found was a more insidious method of capitalist exploitation. Losing an apartment to rent hikes or eviction eats serious shit but I always managed to bounce back enough to secure another place before my ass was tossed to the pavement. I get my house forclosed on or lose it in a freak accident and I’m not only homeless by also financially ruined in a manner that would take a decade or more to recover from.

If your RV breaks down (and/or if you just can’t afford some kind of parking lot rent for it), and you can’t afford to fix it or regularly move it, your home gets impounded, you are now homeless, meaning you are now a criminal, meaning you will soon be slave laborer for someone elses profit.

Counterpoint: Is the USA-style quarter-acre single family property really “traditional housing”? Seems more a symptom of the US brand of colonialist propaganda (“Manifest destiny”) to me. It’s a simulacra of a farmstead, and not really traditional at all.

Anyway I actually disagree about RVs. For what they get you, RVs are not cheap. 100sqft or so of claustrophobia. And not necessarily easy to maintain. And because they are motor vehicles, they have an expected useful lifespan that is probably below an order of magnitude shorter than your typical single family stick build. Essentially they’re land yachts.

we need to return to nomadism

I’m planning on building a solar yacht and country hopping and having a mostly sovereign life, like this guy.

https://youtu.be/7KB-q7ehzM0

I couldnt find anywhere better to post this, pls dont bite me.

• Cheap - mortgage level, not cash. They’re damn expensive. It’s a depreciating asset.
• Mobile - only if fuel is dirt cheap. You’re limited in where you can drive by their lack of maneuverability and severely limited in parking by laws and convention.
• Easy to maintain - no building codes mean no consistency, so you’re guessing all the time, and the build quality on these things is pretty awful. There’s no space to work, and it’s go the added pain in the ass of a whole truck to maintain too. And a generator. Built to last for perhaps 10 years, but with no provisions for renewal - a house roof with shingles lasts 25-50 years and is easily replaced. An RV roof lasts 10 years before sealing starts to give out if not less and needs structural disassembly to repair in many cases.

At the end of the day you’re cooking on a pull out camp stove and shitting in the bucket hidden under the couch. It’s no life for me.

I’m not sure I have heard anyone say RVs are easy to maintain before!

In the situation you are describing is the RV parked somewhere, or moving place-to-place? What is being done with the waste? How is water obtained?