[kylixz]

I did this for about 2 years across the United States. If you’re employed, make sure your manager is supportive/already remote friendly.

Get good internet. I found Verizon to be the best for cellular and this was before Starlink Mobile was available. Get a directional cellular antenna and mount (not a repeater/amplifier) and learn how to point the antenna at towers if you plan to do any “boondocking” out in the west of the US. Otherwise, everywhere else these days likely has internet.

Compost Toilet is a win in my book. Very little maintenance and no nasty tanks to deal with. But, it’s not for everyone.

Decide if you need showers in your wheeled home or not. That drives the cost of your rig significantly. Most RVs are absolute trash for quality south of $50k.

[macintux]

> Most RVs are absolute trash for quality south of $50k.

It sounds like the pandemic generated such a crush of orders that now even more expensive ones are slapped together at the factory.

Mercedes Streeter at The Autopian (spiritual heir to Jalopnik) has been looking at her parents’ new RV.

https://www.theautopian.com/my-familys-62800-camper-is-junk-...

[hinkley]

There was a guy on Reddit recently complaining about how hard it was to keep up with orders for his teardrop trailers. A bunch of people told him he wasn’t charging enough and should raise his prices and use the money to hire someone and also to look for better deals from suppliers (eg, larger orders less frequently).

[gammajmp]

Thank you for sharing that post.

I nearly felt allergic while reading about the endless quality control issues. Piecework only "works" when people easily can and do verify the product delivered. A combination of customers and shareholders are getting boned by workers, their managers, and the dealerships here. Incentives matter.

[TylerE]

They always have been. THey're death traps. Super flimsy.

[mikestew]

Most RVs are absolute trash for quality

There, edited it for you for accuracy. :-) Seriously, our Thor retailed for $100K in 2018, and I've been through that entire vehicle while installing solar/inverter/battery. As I've told my spouse, "there isn't a straight screw in that whole interior". I've probably pulled a bathroom garbage container worth of crap out of the walls (leftover trimmings and the like). Yeah, didn't think anyone would look in there, eh? :-)

[yencabulator]

Sorry to be the wake-up call, but Thor is one of worst brands out there for quality.

[carabiner]

> south of $50k

"South" to mean down or below, and likewise for north, drives me up a wall. If you are standing at the south pole, north is down. There's also no concept of up/down in space, and so northern hemisphere normalcy is false. To Australians, North America is below!

[GlumWoodpecker]

On a conventionally oriented map, south is always down, and north is always up. "Down south" and "up north" are also very common phrases when discussing relative geographical locations, due to the same reason.

[technothrasher]

And if you turn around, left and right change places... woah.

Snide comment aside, it's obviously in reference to standard map orientation. Maps had to be oriented somehow, unless you're advocating for the chaos of arbitrary individual map orientations.

[EA-3167]

Up a wall? Why not down a wall or across it?

[karaterobot]

And yet you know exactly what they mean when they say it, indicating maybe it's a useful convention, even if imperfect.

[post-it]

Having trouble with figures of speech has been linked to schizophrenia. e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0067...

[prawn]

I'm Australian and don't know anyone here who wouldn't consider North America "above". Can't imagine having the time to be that pedantic. Using "north of $50k" to describe something more expensive than $50k is very standard here too.