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TXScubaBugs · RV-Dreams Community Member

New RV, possible opportunity to full time!

DRV · RV-Dreams Family Member

I don't think it matters which town you are living in for long term stay....weather would be one exception. I live in Savannah, GA and have been staying in my 5th wheel for the past 2.5 years while I continue to work. I bought a 5th wheel and moved to a campground. I was surprised at how many full/long term campers are living at this campground.

To answer you logistics questions, it was fairly simple for me. Selected the campground and they provide everything. Water, wifi, and cable was provided with the monthly lot fee. I pay extra for electricity and propane. Campground wife strength is not that good so I pay for Verizon jet pack for when I want wifi and it is not available at the campground.

Greg

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Susan,

Welcome to the RV Dreams forums. You'll find lots of folks here with a lot of knowledge to share.

As for where to stay in San Antonio, in addition to looking at RV parks, also check out to see if there are any mobile home parks that can accommodate RV's. When we first moved into our fifth wheel, we stayed in a mobile home park and it was a lot less than paying a monthly rate at an RV park.

Terry

TRAILERKING · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcome aboard......................Looks like Santa was REAL good to you guys this year.

TXScubaBugs · RV-Dreams Community Member

How would you rate the safety of a MH Park v. a RV Park? Obviously I will be away from my rig during the day and figured the RV Park would have more people around as well as staff during the day. I also don't have laundry hookups in the rig so need a place with those facilities in or nearby. Thanks for the responses so far. :)

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Each mobile home park would need to be independently checked as to possible problems. The one we were in still had "transient" folks coming through, but most of the residents there were long term. For the most part, everyone tended to look out for each other and for any strangers. If the mobile homes that are there aren't kept up nicely, then keep looking. One other advantage to the mobile home parks is that getting mail is easier. When we were looking in the Oklahoma City area, two mobile home parks had mailboxes at the offices. The one we stayed in had separate mailboxes at the road for each site in the park.

As for laundromats, many, if not most, of the RV parks could have laundry facilities. The only issue is that during the "camping season," there might be a lot of folks wanting to use the machines, and the number of machines might be limited. Otherwise, one would have to check out laundry facilities in the area of one's domicile.

One other thing relates to your length of time in San Antonio and the facilities for LPG should you be staying over the winter. If you would be wintering over, check to see if your park of choice would allow external LPG tanks to be set near your rig. If they would, check the LPG suppliers in the area to see if they would lease you a tank and fill it for you. That would be easier than trying to haul LPG cylinders around and get them filled. Also, with each RV park, see if they have the facilities onsite to refill the LPG cylinders.

Terry