Hi everyone, new to the whole caravan community and have some questions. Is it possible to live in these? I'd have a perm address everything can go to.
I can do my job where ever I am, so no issue. Just need internet connection.
Where can you park them? Is the winter hard?
Anyone with experience?
Any feedback is appropriated
First you need to find a site which is open all year. Then find one that you don't have to move off after 28 days. Not many have decent Internet. I always am on electric hook up pitches and a 3 wireless hub at £20 month and gives good speeds all over UK.
Quote: Originally posted by cUTAh on 08/2/2023
I can find all year, but none seem to mention allowed stays more than 28 days?
That's because they are licensed to operate as a business/campsite by their local authority, and the rules are intended to stop permanent or long term residency. If they are caught allowing stays longer than 28 days they risk loosing their license to operate and would have to shut down!
People get around it on the technicality of moving off site for a day or 2, then returning, but that only works if the site is obliging and willing to 'bend' the rules that way, it's certainly against the spirit of the licence rules, if not the actual wording!
As a matter of curiosity, why do you want to set up home in a touring caravan? It is not the most comfortable choice.
There are normally 3 reasons for people trying to live full time/all year in a tourer.
(1) - because they have nowhere else to live.
(2) - because they want to keep travelling, in this country and abroad.
(3) - semi-full time, which is people working away from home for extended periods where short term renting is not an option.
None of these seem to apply, based on your post which says that you already have an address, seem to be looking for a 12 month site, and asking about what it is like in the winter, all of which sound as if you want to use the touring van as a full time fixed residential address.
What the winter is like depends how hardy you are - but you will be living in something with insulation levels not much better than your car.
The problems about finding somewhere to pitch it have already been pointed out to you.
It IS possible, but is a very uncertain lifestyle as you never know when you will have to pack up and move, and never know where or you will find the next pitch - or how much it will cost you.
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Topic: Living in a touring caravan
via mobile 08/2/2023 at 12:14pm
