Top 10 Downsides of RV Life — After 3+ Years

Breana Wallace
29 min readApr 7, 2023
The day we saw & bought our RV that we’d live in for the next 3.5 years

In 2019 I convinced my Husband to sell everything we owned to move into a 300 sqft RV (with our 80lb dog) to go on our own adventure. We became full-time RV’ers for 3 1/2 years.

I’m so glad we did, but I’m also really relieved that it’s over.

It’s pretty well documented that we’re a generation obsessed with experiences and travel. Mix that with the ever-increasing flexibility of work and school to be done online (Starlink is making the internet accessible even in the middle of the ocean now) and it’s no wonder so many of us are interested in becoming Digitial Nomads of some kind. That number has BLOWN UP since the Pandemic confined us to our houses for years and helped us start putting our lives into perspective.

People are done waiting for retirement to get out there and live their dreams!

RV’s have become a really popular way to do that here in the US without having to worry about overseas visas, taxes etc. that you’d run into if you wanted to pop around Europe, for example. At the beginning of the pandemic, it was difficult to even get your hands on an RV, with some manufacturers having wait times of up to a year after ordering.

Although I’ve written tons of articles on the benefits of RV life (I’ve even made the argument that it could be the perfect starter home

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Breana Wallace

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