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Old Mar 1st 2013, 9:32 pm
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Hello everybody,
I posted recently about fruit picking for a living. Now I would like some feedback or comment about living in a camper van.
Obviously it would cost a lot if driving everyday, but that wouldn't be the plan. I would be stopping in places weeks/months at a time, depending on whether I am working there or not.
Notwithstanding paying for fuel, is it an expensive way to live? Can it be done cheaply?
I imagine it is such a free and easy way to live.
Any comment welcome.
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Look on this website for ideas and information. Fare enough, its mostly geared to people who are older than you, but most of the advice is brilliant and would still apply to you. Good luck.

http://www.greynomadsaustralia.com.a...d=38&Itemid=59
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Bear in mind that camper vans don't have toilets or showers (except the expensive ones), nor do they have running water. Caravan parks will charge you around $30 a night for a powered site (less on a long term basis). Chemical toilets need emptying regularly. Unlikely to have running hot water, and cold water will be from a tank of around 100 litres, which doesn't last long.

It is certainly possible to live in a camper van - just be sure you know what you are letting yourself in for!
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Originally Posted by KJCherokee
Bear in mind that camper vans don't have toilets or showers (except the expensive ones), nor do they have running water. Caravan parks will charge you around $30 a night for a powered site (less on a long term basis). Chemical toilets need emptying regularly. Unlikely to have running hot water, and cold water will be from a tank of around 100 litres, which doesn't last long.

It is certainly possible to live in a camper van - just be sure you know what you are letting yourself in for!
Well can't be that harder than in a mini - van travelling 9 months around Europe

I personally think its a fantastic idea
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Have seriously considered it also so if anyone else has any experience of it I would love to hear. I work FIFO and think of travelling round on my weeks off / living out of a camper van or caravan.
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Originally Posted by RedDragon2008
Well can't be that harder than in a mini - van travelling 9 months around Europe

I personally think its a fantastic idea
Yep fantastic
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We lived on a boat for nearly a year when we first arrived. It did feel cramped at times but on the whole I think we did O.K. My folks had lived on it for years & at first 6 of us [4 adults & two teenage kids] on a 37ft boat wasn't a lot of fun.
You learn to use your water sparingly, stow your stuff & keep the place tidy. The oldies had 10 years of practice while they sailed around the world & they had got quite good at it. You need to be meticulous in your stowing of food clothes etc. otherwise your forever digging out lockers for stuff you need daily.
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Originally Posted by cresta57
We lived on a boat for nearly a year when we first arrived. It did feel cramped at times but on the whole I think we did O.K. My folks had lived on it for years & at first 6 of us [4 adults & two teenage kids] on a 37ft boat wasn't a lot of fun.
You learn to use your water sparingly, stow your stuff & keep the place tidy. The oldies had 10 years of practice while they sailed around the world & they had got quite good at it. You need to be meticulous in your stowing of food clothes etc. otherwise your forever digging out lockers for stuff you need daily.
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Originally Posted by ktyler1961
Hello everybody,
I posted recently about fruit picking for a living. Now I would like some feedback or comment about living in a camper van.
Obviously it would cost a lot if driving everyday, but that wouldn't be the plan. I would be stopping in places weeks/months at a time, depending on whether I am working there or not.
Notwithstanding paying for fuel, is it an expensive way to live? Can it be done cheaply?
I imagine it is such a free and easy way to live.
Any comment welcome.
You'll know best if it's for you. If you're happy without familar places and people around, if you're adventurous, realistic, resilient and take things as they come, then you'll probably have a ball. Get yourself a roadside assist motoring plan, unless you know a fair bit about engines!!
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You'll know best if it's for you. If you're happy without familar places and people around, if you're adventurous, realistic, resilient and take things as they come, then you'll probably have a ball. Get yourself a roadside assist motoring plan, unless you know a fair bit about engines!!
And the necessary sticker

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