Heres a thing.....

I am the proud owner of a Swift Challenger 636 caravan. Top gear jokes aside this is a top quality piece of kit and 20k's worth. My point is this; I said to our lass the other weekend... " you know what, I could happily live in this'

Cost of living;

I checked with a couple of top notch campsites in the area - Holme Pierrepoint for example.
£60 per week for long term pitch. This includes water, electricity, all site fees. Other living expenses, sod all apart from food. No water bills, utility bills, council tax etc. No wonder the pikeys have so much money and they don't even pay the £60. The alternative is your typical expenses of anywhere between a grand and £1500 a month.

We're not talking roughing it here, the caravan has every possible mod con you could want except a washing machine and its spacious too. I reckon I could save 20k a year but she's blocked the idea because she can't lay tarmac.

Here's the question; if you could, would you?

still got to pay council tax if your staying there 12 months of the year, if you move to another site for a month though there's no council tax £60 a week is pretty dam cheap though

Dunno, what does she look like?

I definetly would!!!!

You will be wearing socks with sandals next, caravans are shit, however you dress them up, they are for peg sellers and people who want to meet like minded people and meet up at the same time every year, go away in the gypmobile every weekend to a site 10 miles away, what the fuck is that about

In a heartbeat, or even a boat on a canal... Is that cheaper still? (honestly don't know)

I'd live on a boat or in a small wooden cabin but not a plastic rape box.

This most definetly!!!!

Would do it without even thinking. When we had our Caravan over Ullswater as kids/teenagers (and this was when caravans were hardly the lap of luxury) we would regularly go over there for weeks on end. Even at Easter, October half-term etc. I cried my eyes out (bear in mind I was 19 at the time!) when me Dad sold it. We'd virtually grew up there. Ma & Da have had some corkers since (they had a Van Royce which is the Rolls Royce of touring caravans at one point..that WAS better than a house) and yes, if I had the chance/circumstances were right I definitely, 1000% would.

my mam's on about getting one in the Lakes, and I can't feckin wait !!!

My mam got a static on a decent holiday park near Cirencester last year, and its brilliant. Shitloads for the kids to do and a proper home from home.

My mam virtually lives there over the summer. Its a bit small for a full family but if there was just me and our lass I could definitely live in it.

After my nana died my grandad bought a static caravan at the Blue Dolphin at Filey and he lives there from End of Feb to November. Its has more space than my flat three bedrooms two bathrooms and a big lounge with proper kitchen. He loves it there goes to the pub everyday and generally just goes and sees the entertainment. There are relatives there all the time taking their kids he wouldnt have it any other way.

An underwater caravan, unique concept

And that shit smell that hangs around for hours when you go for a dump, may as well pitch a tent next to a sewer and live like a Neanderthal

if it means not reading your shit posts, it's another reason to park it in ullswater

A house and a decent camper van is the perfect, balanced mobile and static accomodation solution.

a £60 a week plot???..a bat or small pistol kept near the door would be a must for me.

Or as the call it the "norm"