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Post by oldie on May 31, 2018 23:12:20 GMT 7
In Australia we have the "Grey nomads"
Cashed up retirees dragging a $60 000 box around behind a $50 000 four wheel drive and paying $80 a night to park it somewhere with a communal toilet and shower block. Thousands of them.
Why? Plus registration, insurance, maintenance, excess fuel etc etc etc.
You can get a motel for $130 a night with all the perks.
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Post by oldie on May 31, 2018 23:23:55 GMT 7
I had a friend who bought a caravan for about $40 000 and sold it 12 years later for $16 000. As the new owner was towing it away he said "we have had a lot of fun with that van and gone a lot of places"
I replied "do you know how many trips to Europe you could have had for $24 000?"
The penny dropped.
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Post by siampolee on Jun 1, 2018 6:48:52 GMT 7
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Post by 3 on Jun 1, 2018 6:56:24 GMT 7
Sounds like you need a holiday in Wythenshawe RGS.
Nice lawns down there in summer, very multi-cultural too
Food outlets per capita not too many though
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Post by me on Jun 1, 2018 9:45:24 GMT 7
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Post by oldie on Jun 1, 2018 9:58:21 GMT 7
$30 a night might get an unpowered tent site around here.
$70 will get a powered site.
$90 for a motel.
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Post by oldie on Jun 1, 2018 10:05:11 GMT 7
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Post by oldie on Jun 1, 2018 10:06:28 GMT 7
I wouldn't tow a box around but each to their own.
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Post by me on Jun 1, 2018 10:10:53 GMT 7
With free bedbugs. Most of this category are doing rather little travelling. They tend to move to a city and stay for a month or more seeing their children and grandchildren who are living in that city then move to the next. A day or a week in a hotel may be acceptible but not for permanent living. A caravan can have most of the comforts of home. Towing costs are high but so is air travel in Australia. |
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Post by rgs2001uk on Jun 1, 2018 21:48:06 GMT 7
Sounds like you need a holiday in Wythenshawe RGS. Nice lawns down there in summer, very multi-cultural too Food outlets per capita not too many though  , nice one, more of a Swinton man myself, serve a decent pint in the Henry Bodd. Have been know on occasion to step into a Joe boozer. |
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Post by 3 on Jun 2, 2018 1:12:12 GMT 7
Sounds like you need a holiday in Wythenshawe RGS. Nice lawns down there in summer, very multi-cultural too Food outlets per capita not too many though  , nice one, more of a Swinton man myself, serve a decent pint in the Henry Bodd. Have been know on occasion to step into a Joe boozer.
^^^ Met a cracking slut girl from there once , the benchmark all other women get measured against.
Would love to bump into her again.
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, nice one, more of a Swinton man myself, serve a decent pint in the Henry Bodd.
, nice one, more of a Swinton man myself, serve a decent pint in the Henry Bodd.
