Feasability of living in a caravan

workaccount

I worked out that if I was 2 live here for another 2yrs I would end up paying about 7000 in rent. I could get a caravan with another fella for a grand each.

Where would I park it though? Can you rent a spot in a caravan park or is there any other solutions?

m83

Pay your rent like the rest of us for feck sake!

biko

Sleep in your car.

Or buy a motor home.

cornbb

Buy a camper van and drive around the west of Ireland in it for the rest of your life. I get so jealous of those guys at the beach when I'm struggling to change into my wetsuit in the back of my corolla.

workaccount

cornbb wrote:

Buy a camper van and drive around the west of Ireland in it for the rest of your life. I get so jealous of those guys at the beach when I'm struggling to change into my wetsuit in the back of my corolla.

How would I have showers and electricity though without a loud generator. I would say a caravan would be better as it would probably be cheaper.

smackbunnybaby

workaccount wrote:

I worked out that if I was 2 live here for another 2yrs I would end up paying about 7000 in rent. I could get a caravan with another fella for a grand each.

Where would I park it though? Can you rent a spot in a caravan park or is there any other solutions?

so you came to Galway to live in a caravan?
well you came to the right place, plenty of "communities" around here

workaccount

smackbunnybaby wrote:

so you came to Galway to live in a caravan?

No I didn't. I came to work...What are you on about???

smackbunnybaby wrote:

well you came to the right place, plenty of "communities" around here

Ha ha. Your so clever and funny. Not!

Zzippy

workaccount wrote:

No I didn't. I came to work...What are you on about???

Ha ha. Your so clever and funny. Not!

Chill out there, work, they're only having a laugh. Its an internet forum, what ya expect!
There's a caravan park in Salthill by the driving range, don't know the number but you could call out and ask them the story... looks pretty good facilities wise but I've only driven past it....

workaccount

Galwayguy99 wrote:

Chill out there, work, they're only having a laugh. Its an internet forum, what ya expect!
There's a caravan park in Salthill by the driving range, don't know the number but you could call out and ask them the story... looks pretty good facilities wise but I've only driven past it....

I know the second part was but the first part wasn't! It's Monday, i've been in work since six. I'd probably be less harsh under different circumstances.


Sorry by the way.

learnerplates

Sounds like a great idea. It'd be worth buying a good one, plenty of space,extra insulation for those cold/wet/windy Wesht coast winters.

Salhill caravan park is the only one I know, dunno if they're open during the winter or if they'd let you stay long term.
They've hot showers and electricity so you'd be grand. I presume it's around 20euro a night during the summer.

Give it a go best of luck.

workaccount

learnerplates wrote:

Sounds like a great idea. It'd be worth buying a good one, plenty of space,extra insulation for those cold/wet/windy Wesht coast winters.

Salhill caravan park is the only one I know, dunno if they're open during the winter or if they'd let you stay long term.
They've hot showers and electricity so you'd be grand. I presume it's around 20euro a night during the summer.

Give it a go best of luck.

Cheers mate it's really great to hear somebody that thinks this is as good an idea as I think it is.

JohnCleary

There's a crowd of travellers (So the Radio says) living in camper van's at the back of Leisureland atm and the guard's can't get rid of them. Something about that legally they can shift caravans, but not campervans... maybe you could move up there and live with them?

DRakE

So... you want to buy a caravan to avoid paying rent.. but then want to rent a spot in a caravan park ? wtfs

workaccount

DRakE wrote:

So... you want to buy a caravan to avoid paying rent.. but then want to rent a spot in a caravan park ? wtfs

No I don't really want to do this but I may have to. Anyway if I was it would have to be much cheaper than renting a house...

toiletduck

workaccount wrote:

I worked out that if I was 2 live here for another 2yrs I would end up paying about 7000 in rent. I could get a caravan with another fella for a grand each.

What's happening in two years? You could live rent free (and save on the caravan) by sleeping in the doorway of Zhivago's on Shop street.

learnerplates

It does seem like a bit hypocritical alright, but of course the big downside of parking on an illegal spot is not facilities.

Have a look into canal barges too,I know in Athlone people live on barges on the river and have electricity and stuff, no rent:p

workaccount

learnerplates wrote:

It does seem like a bit hypocritical alright, but of course the big downside of parking on an illegal spot is not facilities.

Have a look into canal barges too,I know in Athlone people live on barges on the river and have electricity and stuff, no rent:p

Where in galway can you park a canal barge? I would be interested in looking into this.

DRakE

jesus just rent a room in a flat if you've a job

PopeBuckfastXVI

The only place in galway with electricity & water for barges is teh Harbour and they will charge you upwards of 500 euros per month to park there.

A barge equipped to live on will set you back between 100 and 200 thousand euros.
Depending on the size of course... that's for houseboats, you could probably get a lot smaller & cheaper.

Have a look at www.aquadomi.ie for some pretty nice looking gaffs...

JohnCleary

workaccount wrote:

Where in galway can you park a canal barge? I would be interested in looking into this.

On the canal?

I remember there used to be a barge near the new bridge, think someone lived on it.

You could moor your barge at Woodquay, it's a public pier. Still no electricity/water(Well, drinkable stuff) though

workaccount

DRakE wrote:

jesus just rent a room in a flat if you've a job

7000k over 2yrs = 3months work (5 days a week, 9-5pm- 45hrs a week - 540hrs in work just to pay rent to some rich arsehole)

And living in a caravan would be a bit of crack aswell!

smackbunnybaby

workaccount wrote:

I know the second part was but the first part wasn't! It's Monday, i've been in work since six. I'd probably be less harsh under different circumstances.

Sorry by the way.

apology accepted.
its no fun looking for housing in galway...sorry for making a joke about it.
buy a caravan.

po0k

DRakE wrote:

jesus just rent a room in a flat if you've a job

The rental market is gone insane, thanks to an increasingly mobile society/workforce, the older generation buying up apartments to make money from them (hiking up rent to pay their inflated mortgages), and there being sfa actual affordable houses being built/coming on the market around the city, instead being pushed out to outlying towns where the land is cheaper, and people commute into work in the city, leading to increased traffic on the roads, and lower quality of life all-round.

This is what is known as 'progress' and a 'vibrant economy' in Ireland.

We're fncked.

cormie

I thought about this myself too before:D Do you mean a proper mobile home or a caravan father ted style? I'd like a nice yacht aswell! How would you feel asking your new girlfriends parents over for dinner in your caravan though?:p

learnerplates

It'd be great to see someone drifting (excuse the pun) from the norm (and I don't mean the Galway normality of simple opting not to work) but to work and not follow the crowd (by buying a semi-D or renting with large rent), there are alternatives and someone has to lead.

Those water homes look nice, wonder if you flooded a field would work, would you have to get planning permission?;)

toiletduck

Live in a zeppelin. Your house parties would be great.

cormie

Yeah the water homes look cool, I wonder how much they start from? You could just plant it in a big pond somewhere and hope nobody throws stones!

workaccount

cormie wrote:

I thought about this myself too before:D Do you mean a proper mobile home or a caravan father ted style? I'd like a nice yacht aswell! How would you feel asking your new girlfriends parents over for dinner in your caravan though?:p

Father ted style but about twice the size I would say man. I'd need it for when Fr. Noel Furlong comes along as he recked the other one.

DRakE

Overwhelming amount of crustys on here

Rent's always gonna be expensive. A Caravan would be fun for about an hour til you realised its tiny and rubbish

cormie

DRakE wrote:

Overwhelming amount of crustys on here

Rent's always gonna be expensive. A Caravan would be fun for about an hour til you realised its tiny and rubbish

Plenty of people live in bedsits, tiny things but they manage fine. A mobile home would probably be cheaper and bigger. I suppose it's just a stigma have against being referred to as a traveller or trailer trash. It's really quite a sensible thing to do.

workaccount

I'm certainly not a crusty and I must say Drake you are very narrow-minded.

I generally find narrow minded people an incredible pain.

Good luck to you spending loads of money on rent. By the way my sums were done on a basis of 65e a week. Some people pay over e100 no bother.