Thread: Could you actually live long-term in a van?

Originally Posted by goingbush

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If you sell your home in the City / Suburbs you should have enough funds to buy a suitable rig to tour , live off the interest / pension then if the 'touring indefinetly' plan falls over buy a country property & live off interest / pension and still have more cash to spare than you ever would have if you were still living in the city.

That only works if your current house is in the city.

In the town where I live and the ones in new England where I spent some time this week, even very good houses are selling for 4 to 5 hundred thousand.

Mick, you have not seen our finished caravan. I could possibly live in ours permanently. We designed it to our requirements and suits me very well. My thought is if you design your caravan to your requirements then defiantly you could live in it permanently. Without the need to sell your property.

Originally Posted by vnx205

That only works if your current house is in the city.

In the town where I live and the ones in new England where I spent some time this week, even very good houses are selling for 4 to 5 hundred thousand.

It also only works if you own the house outright.

Originally Posted by The ho har's

Mick, you have not seen our finished caravan. I could possibly live in ours permanently. We designed it to our requirements and suits me very well. My thought is if you design your caravan to your requirements then defiantly you could live in it permanently. Without the need to sell your property.

No, but I'd be interested. I'm keen on compact housing. We have nearly finished a conversion of a garage into a studio at our Maleny house. Just have to install the Murphy bed in the wall and do some finishing work. I also enjoy comparing caravan designs. Some of the compact hybrid caravans are very space efficient. Typical Aussie housing is very wasteful of space, I think.

Mixed reports from these long-term caravan residents, but Queensland seems to be the most popular place for it.

The Sunshine Coast is Australia'''s caravan-living capital

Originally Posted by The ho har's

Mick, you have not seen our finished caravan. I could possibly live in ours permanently. We designed it to our requirements and suits me very well. My thought is if you design your caravan to your requirements then defiantly you could live in it permanently. Without the need to sell your property.

But have you fixed those deadly, skull crushing, corners yet

Originally Posted by Chops

We’ll let you know soon enough

Yeah, but your van is probably better than the house I sold to begin travelling

All depends on what you're happy with!

No problem living in a van - I spent years living out of a 36 inch sleeper, so a 14'6" van should be sheer luxury!

Well, by the time we clear all the debt, selling the house should leave us with around $150k.

The place we're planning to setup a base in, has dwellings starting from around $20k up. Rates are only a few hundred per annum, and the Shire Council tends to pretty much leave you alone.

Whilst it is a long way to the nearest capital city, the Simpson is just up the road, and the Flying Doctor calls by once a week.

What more could you want?