Full Timing - A Poll II

[buttons]

sorry Stew.. not being picky .. but how do figure that ?
Of those who bothered to vote ... (figures rounded)

24% are doing it and enjoying it

18% are planning

18 % intend to try it

total 60 %

36% would never do it

4% gave up

1% wish to give up

total 41%

Could I add to that only 24% actually enjoy fulltiming. The rest apart from the ones who know they dont like it, have little or no idea what fulltiming is like.:Sad:

 

[scotjimland]

[HI]Anyone who likes the idea of fulltiming is in favour Jim[/HI]. Revisit the figures mate

well, of course they are oh:

.. i gave the figures for the poll .. not the ones I favoured

 

[Terry]

I go full timing every time I go out in the van :thumb:Trouble is I run out of money and have to go back home
terry

 

[buttons]

Anyone who likes the idea of fulltiming is in favour Jim. Revisit the figures mate

Were you in politics in a previous life What about the 76% that don't enjoy fulltining

 

[Jim]

Could I add to that only 24% actually enjoy fulltiming. The rest apart from the ones who know they dont like it, have little or no idea what fulltiming is like.:Sad:

ONLY I find that figure amazingly high!

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[scotjimland]

I go full timing every time I go out in the van :thumb:Trouble is I run out of money and have to go back home
terry

that's the problem with full timing Terry... when you run out of money you have to pick fruit

 

[Jim]

that's the problem with full timing Terry... when you run out of money you have to pick fruit

Thats not a Problem Jim. its an advantage. run out of money in a house and you'll only be picking your own fruit. The fulltimer can live at the orchard

 

[Terry]

that's the problem with full timing Terry... when you run out of money you have to pick fruit

Got to make sure you are somewhere warm in winter then :thumb: Not much to pick in GB
terry

 

[Terry]

Thats not a Problem Jim. its an advantage. run out of money in a house and you'll only be picking your own fruit. The fulltimer can live at the orchard

No traveling expensive s then :thumb:
terry

 

[scotjimland]

Got to make sure you are somewhere warm in winter then :thumb: Not much to pick in GB
terry

slim pickings abroad mate.. the Eastern Europeans have collared the fruit picking market

I've heard selling sunglasses on the beach pays well...

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[scotjimland]

Thats not a Problem Jim. its an advantage. run out of money in a house and you'll only be picking your own fruit. The fulltimer can live at the orchard

nah... run out of money in a house and you get benefits...

run out abroad and you are up sh$t creek

 

[Terry]

slim pickings abroad mate.. the Eastern Europeans have collared the fruit picking market

I've heard selling sunglasses on the beach pays well...

That sounds a better idea :thumb:I am too old for fruit picking anyway well at least to make money at it
terry

 

[buttons]

ONLY I find that figure amazingly high!

You could possibly get an even higher figure if you were to carry out the same pole on a fulltimers only forum

 

[artona]

figures are as you read them. Going by the survey 86% of motorhomers are in favour of fulltiming. That is 86% voted in a positive way, even if some of those know they never will.

 

[Mags52]

...and it just goes to show what a positive impact motorhoming has on people. Maybe full timing wouldn't turn out to be all we hoped and expected but the desire is there for many people.
Certainly I have never felt more chilled out than I do when away in the MH... I used to think that about the caravan but the MH is better.
If nothing else I enjoy the dream.

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[RVfulltimer]

We lived fulltime in our rv for 8 years now back in a house ,do we regret doing it no ,toured round Europe for five years at a cost of about 70,000 pounds and in the uk for the last 3 years
at a cost of 45,000 must admit cash was running low but this was not the reason for giving it up. do , if you are thinking of doing it you MUST have a plan b and poss a plan c .

 

[scotjimland]

figures are as you read them. Going by the survey 86% of motorhomers are in favour of fulltiming. That is 86% voted in a positive way, even if some of those know they never will.

you must be reading a different poll ... here are the positive voters highlighted .. that comes to 60%

[HI]I Fulltime now and I enjoy the lifestyle 65 24.07%[/HI]
I Fulltime now and I wished I did not 2 0.74%
I like the idea but would never do it 70 25.93%
I hate the idea and would never do it 25 9.26%
[HI]I plan to Fulltime sometime in the future 49 18.15%[/HI]
I used to Fulltime and I gave it up 10 3.70%
[HI]I intend to try it to see if I like it 49 18.15%[/HI]

 

[artona]

you must be reading a different poll ... here are the positive voters highlighted .. that comes to 60%

[HI]I Fulltime now and I enjoy the lifestyle 65 24.07%[/HI]
I Fulltime now and I wished I did not 2 0.74%
I like the idea but would never do it 70 25.93%
I hate the idea and would never do it 25 9.26%
[HI]I plan to Fulltime sometime in the future 49 18.15%[/HI]
I used to Fulltime and I gave it up 10 3.70%
[HI]I intend to try it to see if I like it 49 18.15%[/HI]

plus of course "I like the idea but would never do it 70 25.93%" ...they like the idea---its positive, not their fault they can't do it oh:oh:oh:

 

[Jim]

You could possibly get an even higher figure if you were to carry out the same pole on a fulltimers only forum

And if it were a poll that involved only you it would be 100 against. oh:

 

[Jim]

nah... run out of money in a house and you get benefits...

run out abroad and you are up sh$t creek

Not strictly true jim, you might get housing benefit but you'll need it. I'd rather pick apples than draw benefits and spend all day picking my nose

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[JJ]

Stating the obvious here but there lots of different ways of "full timing"

I suppose if you have a motor home, you park it somewhere and live in it, rarely going anywhere in it then you are still "full timing"...

If you set off in your motor home and have a month booked on one site (with ehu) and the next month on another one and so on is another way... You have some order and certainty to your life... (but more flexibility than "Houseys.")

If you have an over all concept of living your life in a motor home but without any specific day to day, week to week or month to month plans, often changing directions because of the wind or currents at the time, then you are full timing the way I do... I just love living in my van(s)... when we tour with a live show (as I hope we are to do again soon) I could stay in a top quality hotel with the rest of the "Team" but I don't... I stay in the Wagon (often much nearer the theatre than the hotel). No worries for me what time room service stops or the restaurant closes.

Now on "holiday" I am visiting new places... yesterday I didn't know where I would spend the night... I had a beautiful drive (driving the Wagon/Hymer is a pleasure for me.) I had a break at one spot and thought about spending the night there and then decided to move on. In the end I came back to the lake side spot of the previous few days as it is so nice here... Nice as it is, after one or two more nights, I will start itching to see what is over the next horizon...riving2:

All said and done though... much easier for a singleton than a couple (unless you are really together.. .)

Full Timing ROCKS for me...

JJ :Cool:

 

[artona]

Not strictly true jim, you might get housing benefit but you'll need it. I'd rather pick apples than spend all day picking my nose

Reminds me of the women who packed the fish and chips at a chippie I ONCE went to. She picked her nose at the same time. I left the chippie without supplies

 

[artona]

when we tour with a live show (as I hope we are to do again soon)

you are a dreadful advert for retirement mate

 

[Jim]

Reminds me of the women who packed the fish and chips at a chippie I ONCE went to. She picked her nose at the same time. I left the chippie without supplies

Its only protein Stu, you fulltimers who never know where the next meal is coming from should be grateful

 

[scotjimland]

plus of course "I like the idea but would never do it 70 25.93%" ...they like the idea---its positive, not their fault they can't do it oh:oh:oh:

I thought only politicians could bend statistics as good as this ...

anyway.. as we all know....

there are lies, damn lies and statistics .. I'd like to know how many of the "positive" have the guts to actually do it, I'd hazard a guess that it's very few .. talk is easy .. actions count, not dreams.

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[Jim]

I thought only politicians could bend statistics as good as this ...

anyway.. as we all know....

there are lies, damn lies and statistics .. I'd like to know how many of the "positive" have the guts to actually do it, I'd hazard a guess that it's very few .. talk is easy .. actions count, not dreams.

Well 1 in 4 who voted do have the guts Jim

 

[artona]

Its only protein Stu, you fulltimers who never know where the next meal is coming from should be grateful

I will start to fill a jar for the next fulltimers meet and then we can do a real-to-life fulltimers fry up. I will even save up some sweat so we won't even need any olive oil to fry bogies in :shout:

 

[artona]

I thought only politicians could bend statistics as good as this ...

anyway.. as we all know....

there are lies, damn lies and statistics .. I'd like to know how many of the "positive" have the guts to actually do it, I'd hazard a guess that it's very few .. talk is easy .. actions count, not dreams.

I learnt everything I know whilst working for Murdoch ..................Can you hang up that call mate, me batteries going flat listening in

 

[buttons]

And if it were a poll that involved only you it would be 100 against. oh:

Now you've got it

 

[Jim]

Now you've got it

It's a shame you don't

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