the "RV family" lifestyle sounds like a nightmare... | Internet Analysis

Anorexia kills.
Just ask the most incredible alto ever, Karen Carpenter.
Oh, wait.....

UPDATE: The family of nomads moved to a house and if im not mistaken sold their rv

Also, I’m calling absolute bullshit on “if they don’t like it anymore, we quit”… yeah, like you’re going to invest on a 4-bedroom house out of the blue just because the teenage daughter said she’s sick of living like an animal. Bullshit. Even if the parents were willing to do it, the financial and practical plausibility of doing it is a completely different story.

And the “the kids earn a percentage” story and the “investment accounts”… don’t make me fucking laugh. 🤣She’s just avoiding backlash saying what she thinks viewers will want to hear.

Disgusting crazy people.

There is a book, written by a woman, who was forced by her father to live many years onboard of a little sailing boat. Her father fancied himself to be a new Thor Heyerdahl, so he convinced his wife to stop their normal life in London (life, which children loved), and start "big sailing adventure" (which children hated). So if you think the RV family life on the road is bad, think about, how much worse is a life on a little boat in the middle of the stormy ocean, far away from civilization, often with nothing to eat besides dry ships biscuits, contaminated with worms. Plus being seasick half a time.
When this poor girl became adult enough to leave her parents and return to London, she was so happy, - more, than a person, who won a million in a lottery.

This reminds me a lot of the olson twins who were legit in the spotlight since 9 months...

Tiffany, the family of nomads recently bought a house and have given up that big RV, always on the road life. I think they kept a smaller RV for occasional traveling. Frankly, I am negatively fascinated with their approach to moving into a home and getting it furnished and equipped, but this might be just because I come from a European country and we're not like that at all. I loved this video, as well as the one with mobile living and the housing crisis. I wouldn't say my country is experiencing the phenomenon of RV life in the long run, but housing prices also increased here. However, with a large number of people I follow on social media being from the US, it was interesting to hear a detailed analysis on the matter.

Whenever I see RV families I think “well didn’t we all used to be nomads? Weren’t a lot of native Americans nomadic, packing up and moving all the time?” But the difference is that nomadic people didn’t move every day, and they weren’t confined to a shipping container. Portable housing structures were larger, people would sleep in bigger communal sleeping areas, and they’d stay in one place for weeks or months. AND the groups traveling consisted of an entire village worth of people, not just one family. So there were still social structures and people to learn from.

I can't remember their name, but you should do a video on the family from Kansas that did the Appalachian Trail and had their teenagers renovate the house next door and move in by themselves at 16

The whole “we pay our kids” thing kind of seems like it could be more “we want legal defense if we need it in the future” than general kindness to the kids. But not forcing them to participate is definitely very good

There is a couple who started out the RV life looking like average Dad and Mom. Now Dad has dreads and Mom dresses as if she lives on a organic farm.

I grew up in a timeshare resort which was far from my school. I would make a friend for a week & they would leave. Sure, they would come back the next year but if we didn’t exchange addresses for snail mail I would never see them again.

Off-topic but I found your channel today and I got to say you give me english teacher vibes.

Wowww

Van life is probably better for retired people or people that don't have kids. Maybe little kids but definitely not teenagers. Just my opinion

12 KIDS IN AN RV?!? OML THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!

I have autism and I was actually crying watching this video cuz I felt so bad for Addison

I never lived in an RV growing up but I was a military brat. Not only was my Dad deployed for up to 18 months at a time but we moved constantly. I can't even remember how many schools I went to before High School. I feel like it stunted me socially and it was/is hard to make meaningful friendships. I know a lot of people have nomadic lifestyles and it works for them. I am jealous of people that have had the same friends since kindergarten. My sister and I lacked roots. One positive out of moving around so much is I am very adaptable and have been to a lot of cool places. At least today kids have social media to keep in touch with friends.

I think a pack of rv familys traveling together could make it work. The kids would have other kids to bond with, the parents could take turns teaching the kids and each parent taking on subjects they know. It would bring some stability to the adventure.

what if any of the kids wanna have a non-online stationary job at the side, like working in ag grocery store? would the parents stop driving them around?

People living in their car V.S people living in a vehicle that has beds, a bathroom and a kitchen. Are two very different things, of course living in your car is looked at as sucky, cause it is! There’s normally not enough room for you to comfortably lay down, there’s no bathroom so you’ll have to drive somewhere that does if you have to pee in the middle of the night, it’s tight space, it does suck, and that’s not me being rude or anything, we definitely shouldn’t look down at the people who can only afford that, and try to help them. It’s just better to live in a RV, where you have an actual bed, and that’s just a fact.

This is crazy cuz I grew up in a trailer which was fine and I felt bad about it til my friend came to our high school who lived in an RV, bc of poverty and I think her parents also liked the opportunity to stop working real jobs and start only having to make small amounts of money for gas and food (her dad drank a lot.) She had all kinds of stories of her family trusting strangers who seemed nice and then tried to rob them or try to steal the rv or try to pick her up specifically. And especially at truck stops and she said she preferred to park at Walmart and every few months they’d find a family or distant relative whose house they could park at.
We fell out of contact but I’m certain she stopped speaking to her parents as soon as she got out of there

I bet jess went back to the RV so she could enjoy silence.

They end up moving to a new house just so you know

I hate the gentrification of homelessness

really hoping addison is doing alright - as a fellow autism this sounds super difficult

All the kids named after Bible characters 💀 Enoch

They have now moved into a real house

this family now has finally bought their own house!

It feels like the vanlife people are coping with the van, they do not enjoy the van. They might seem happy for like, 10 minutes, then just, the van happens to them again.

as someone that lives in an rv cause I can’t get an actual house, I live there alone (and with my cats) and it’s already hard. like can’t believe families of 10+ people can manage to live like this wtf

I've said this on other videos on rv families and such, but the kids living in cabinets and drawers always irks me. it's not like the whole thing with kids is that the grow and develop or anything ... I feel like an rv or camperhome would always have to be worked on to properly accommodate the kids, and even then it still wouldn't work and would still be awful

Love your Haley Blais t shirt!!

How many times do I have to say.... LISTEN TO YOUR KIDS!!! And I don't mean when they ask for ice cream instead of dinner. I mean when there has been a giant drastic change in their lives that uproots their stability, their routine, their agency, everything, and this child is saying "I am not happy, i do not want this" or dont just assume they're fine just because they arent saying anything!! Because it's your job as a parent to advocate for your childrens future self. You had the opportunity to enjoy the free and easy life of adventure, but instead you chose to have children, and you need to accept that once you have kids, THEY ARE WHAT MATTER! It is your soul duty to advocate in their best interest, not just shunt then to the background while you spend their most crucial years figuring yourself out. That is not fair. Children never ask to be here. You chose to be a parent. PUT YOUR KIDS FIRST!

Okay! As soon as that teenager was diagnosed with autism, is when this van life situation should have ENDED! Autistic people, adolescents in particular, NEED ROUTINE, they NEED THEIR OWN SPACE! They HAVE to have a private, calm quiet predictable reliable safe space to retreat to if they are feeling overwhelmed! Hell I think Neuroatypical kids require and deserve that as well actually! But autistic people in particular, can break from routine on the weekends or for camping trips, sure, but they need stability and consistency above all else!! All kids do!! People with autism also have a different social battery than neurotypical people and that HAS to be respected!! They have different needs! And shoving them in a claustrophobic shelf with tons of people just behind a curtain, because it's the only space they have, IS NOT ENOUGH! Possibly worse actually!! Like you are restricting these kids entire safe space to a literal shelf!! PRISONERS get more personal space than your children!!
And of course it's only this Mommy Vlogger who is the one saying "oh the kids love it!" Putting words in their mouth. This woman is literally one of the most selfish mothers I've ever seen.

Just cuz you want more family time doesn't mean it has to be in an RV. A normal response to a child being sick is not RV life

As an autistic (and trans) person myself, not having my own personal space growing up (poor, mold issues, slept in the living room for years) was horrible. Awful. To the point where as soon as I feel overstimulated as an adult I need to retreat to my own room and be totally alone to recover. This sounds nightmarish.

I feel like banlife is perfectly fine if you dont bring children into it

I believe the family of 12 was from what i heard in comments from other videos looking for another apartment at the time and their not RVers like everyone else

U are sick: Do U Bobooooooo

My parents and I have discussed RV life for a year or so while we figure out where we want to move and where they want to fully retire to. It’s not for us because we have a lot of pets that need more room than an RV can give. But I’m also 19 and out of school, and old enough to know how this would affect me. I know that I wouldn’t like not having privacy, but I also know that I’m a lot more lax with that than others might be. I can’t imagine being younger and having that life forced on me with no say

seems like a fun summer, if youre already an outdoorsy sociable bubbly family... after that it would be a living hell for anyone

as someone who is fascinated by this topic, I really appreciate this video, and thank you for discussing this!
I have seen so much RV life on the internet, and it is interesting for sure. However, it definitely needs to be discussed and researched. Thank you for providing such a fantastic argument!
more people should be aware of these realities.

I have a king bed but my kids are sleeping on the floor. We need to simply make family vlogging illegal, period.

So the family of nomads r moving into a house now and it’s so funny because in one video the wife was crying and ppl in the comments were like “she’s probably the only one crying”😭. I hope the kids have the privacy and space they need

Klarna

"So basically, we're living in a van now, completely stripping you of your privacy. Please tell us if you don't want to do this anymore, but we don't care that speaking up to your parents is already difficult, or that you feel obligated to keep this lifestyle because you and us are getting paid. Sound fair?"

Whatever anyone may think of school, you gotta at least go through Highschool