Living On The Road
Living On The Road
Full-timing — is it right for you?
Lots and lots of folks dream of taking off and living on the road full-time. Many are retired, but many others work part of the year, just long enough for a 'stash' to keep them going for a few months or a year or so.
A surprising number of engineers, project managers and construction people are full-timers, living in their motor homes and traveling from job to job. It's economically a very efficient means of handling the housing problem, especially if you would otherwise be moving a lot to relatively brief work sites.
For retirees, it has the blessing of not having a house to maintain. Housecleaning is easy and quick, there's no lawn to mow. And the scenery is wonderful. Every day you can enjoy scenery that city folks would pay hundreds of thousands for if they could buy it at all, and for you it's free. And when you're tired of it, you change it!
The option for whether to stay in developed campgrounds or to "freedom camp." Freedom camping is camping in undeveloped areas. The latter is made possible by the “NZ Freedom Camping Act"
Campers are free to camp wherever they like, within the limitations imposed by local council by laws.
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