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Originally Posted by monster
Sam, have you thought of buying a tiny camper rather than a 4WD? Given your precarious situation, I would definitely consider the idea of buying a vehicle you could live in and then "flying" south for the winter if nothing else came up
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I think the cost of a camper would be too great. Actually, my ideal is to acquire a small camper trailer like a Scamp and then apply to the Forest Service and National Parks to be a campground host. The FS will pay for trailer hook-ups and even give you a small monthly stipend. In return, all I'd have to do is collect recreational fees and make sure everybody shut off their generators by 10:00 pm. In this dream scenario, I'd be a campgound host for a Forest up in Montana in the summer and hit some place like Saguaro National Monument in Arizona for the winter. I'd get to live in some pretty places and meet people from all over the world. Sounds like a dream retirement to me!
The problem is that my income is so low that it will take me a couple of years to save up the money for even a used Scamp. I feel like I'm in a race with the Feds to just survive. I don't know how valid my fears about my housing voucher are, but everytime I check the news from HUD, it's uniformly grim.
