That said, mobility comes down to living space. While a tent can be folded up into your car its hardly secure storage while you're at work. Thus trailers make sense, provided you don't go insane living in one, and you can afford to live in one year round. Trailers are not perfect. Many are made of less durable materials. Most cost too much. All require a sturdy fuel-inefficient vehicle to tow them, and parking them where you sleep isn't free in many cases.
There are things to be desired to add to a standard RV or trailer currently missing.
- Lighter weight
- Solar panels on the roof, batteries to store the power for your use.
- LED interior lighting
- Cleaning of gray water.
- Drying and extrusion of black water for easier handling, possibly into sterile pellets or possibly burned
- Pellet stove for heating in winter months
- Radiators for supplemental heating, though possibly irrelevant
- Propane heat absorption from fridge. When you expand propane it absorbs heat. Use this to take the heat out of a fridge and keep it cold.
- Wifi and satellite TV antennas
- Bigger kitchen, larger fridge, with foldable and storable counter workspaces.
- Steerable wheels, powered, and with power brakes
- Low center of gravity
- Active suspension with variable ride height. Failing that, a suspension that tilts the body into corners
- Rear view cameras (webcams)
- External security cameras in all directions.
- Sufficient insulation to heat or cool in either weather extreme.
- Fan for cooking.
- Hot water heater with inputs from several sources (solar panels, solar water heater tubes, immersion heater, scavenger heater from skin and pellet stove.
But what does all this weigh? If it is light enough, skip the fancy wheels and suspension. And if the insulation is good enough, skip the various heating tricks. Body heat should be able to heat a trailer, which then gets down to cooling. How quiet can the compressor be on an A/C unit mounted on a roof? Replace with the latest when available.
Then it gets down to maintenance. How often do you need to refill the water, and drain the waste? The dry waste trick would be useful. Distilling the grey water back to clean, or for flushing, would be useful, but probably very energy intensive.
What about hookups is difficult on some site? A sewer hookup and electric drop are typical, even at a rural location. I expect there are people who drill a well, hookup solar panels and a water tank to pump it, and batteries for the excess power if any. That would work anywhere there's ground water. Yes, putting that kind of money into a site is more sensible for multiple users, and that gets you a trailer park, however trailer park residents have a reputation. Mostly a bad one. Being away from those is generally considered a good idea. It is possible for a trailer park with better standards to exist, but I have no idea what they cost to stay in if you're working a 3-5 month long contract. Cheaper than a regular apartment? I don't know.
What about hookups is difficult on some site? A sewer hookup and electric drop are typical, even at a rural location. I expect there are people who drill a well, hookup solar panels and a water tank to pump it, and batteries for the excess power if any. That would work anywhere there's ground water. Yes, putting that kind of money into a site is more sensible for multiple users, and that gets you a trailer park, however trailer park residents have a reputation. Mostly a bad one. Being away from those is generally considered a good idea. It is possible for a trailer park with better standards to exist, but I have no idea what they cost to stay in if you're working a 3-5 month long contract. Cheaper than a regular apartment? I don't know.
I cannot count on better trailer parks to exist in the places likely to have work for me. I cannot count on safe places to park. I can count on people to be bad. That is natural. I cannot count on free travel. I cannot count on civil rights. Those are being destroyed by the Socialists and the Autocrats. Bad people, basically. Driving away from them is sensible. And when their darkness destroys a community, like Detroit collapsed, you hitch up the trailer and leave town. Its only sensible. I will probably not be able to afford a good and comfortable trailer I can live in year round at the outset of my career. More likely I will buy something like the Rpod above and make it work for me. There are many places that want librarians and can't pay them much. Its hard to accept this when investing serious money in the education, but life isn't nice. Life is nasty and brutish and often short, and as long as communists are given power, this is how things will be. What you want is irrelevant, and people who tell you to follow your dreams are just trying to harm you.
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