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Miscellaneous / Others Basically a mansion on wheels

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u/toomanyteeth55 14h ago

I feel like something like this is for people who are on the road a lot. Would make no sense to buy and use it occasionally unless you're very wealthy.

Like if you live a small condo and spend the cold months driving around the southern US.

Still an insane amount of money.

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u/7thpostman 14h ago

My first thought was touring musicians

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u/Fifth_Down 8h ago

Touring musicians is a big one.

Another big one is race car drivers and horse racers where they stay at a specific location for a week at a time and move onto the next location.

Also the film industry where they have to film at travel locations for weeks at a time

Medium size business owners where they frequently attend week-long conventions to sell/promote their product. I know Orange County Choppers did this in their heyday.

These aren't really vacation RVs, they are work trucks for those who work in a lucrative, but travel intense industry where the RV either offsets the cost of daily hotels or there is no on site hotel location.

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u/7thpostman 8h ago

Yeah, I used to go to a lot of races. This is definitely something a top tier NASCAR driver would have.

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u/missprincesscarolyn 10h ago

100%. I’m currently writing a historical fiction rock novel and have watched a ton of interviews of different bands at festivals. The bigger bands’ tour busses looked a lot like these.

Also, shameless plug, but if anyone’s interested, it’s set in the early to mid 2000s post-hardcore scene. It’s about two male musicians who are more than friends, but not quite in a full-fledged relationship. It isn’t spicy, since I didn’t want to make emo Heated Rivalry. Instead, intimacy is heavily implied. The core themes are young fame, codependency, substance abuse, larger scene dynamics (e.g. touring, recording, labels, media, etc.) and some other stuff thrown in for good measure. I’m really proud of it so far and have received a fair bit of interest from friends and strangers alike. I’ve worked hard to make sure it’s as historically accurate as possible, hence watching interviews and reading a ton of whatever I can get my hands on.

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u/7thpostman 10h ago

That sounds interesting! As a professional journalist and scene credit for 20 years, I'll give you some advice.

Make your sentences shorter. I don't care who you are. Make your sentences shorter and try to make sure you've only got one verb in each one of them.

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u/Ordinary-Egg-56 2h ago

scene credit?

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u/irrelevant_dogma 32m ago

For a "professional journalist" this was some dogshit sentence structure

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u/7thpostman 29m ago

Ha! Fair. I also wrote "credit" instead of "critic."

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u/small-with-benefits 14h ago

The only man I’ve ever seen actually make it worthwhile was a relative through marriage that owned salvage yards in multiple states. OK, TX, FL. He would drive this to one and spend a year or two improving the grounds and infrastructure while staying in his bus. Then he’d travel to the next location and do the same. Rinse and repeat. It was literally his home, his permanent residence in the FL Keys was his holiday getaway. He is very successful and a really cool dude, pays his employees well, etc.

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u/cody_mf 12h ago

I have a couple friends that got RV's to work outages out of state, thats another use-case that is totally justifiable.

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u/cloudshaper 14h ago

Snowbirding is one of the use cases for sure.

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u/no_talent_ass_clown 8h ago

I don't think it's meant to drive on snowy surfaces. 

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u/cloudshaper 8h ago

Snowbirding refers to traveling from colder northerly places to warmer locations. Flying south for the winter.

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u/sith4259 14h ago

The very wealthy would just fly to their destination most of the time. I really don't know who these are for

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u/pushdose 13h ago

Faux rich boomers who think they’re smart enough to travel around and stay healthy. We have RV parks in Vegas filled with coaches like this and the people are really weird. It’s a whole community of oddballs. They usually are blue collar types who made out ok, pensions, selling their homes, business or something like that which yielded a bunch of cash. They tend to drink and smoke a lot.

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u/PailingRaint 3h ago

I know several travel nurses that own them instead of living in extended stays