Well, frankly, I like it a lot, but not for all the reasons I thought I would. This is not to say there aren’t problems, either.
Things that are working:
-I like our site a lot. It’s overpriced, there are hoardes of mosquitoes, high tension power lines that sing during thunderstorms, and a pesky neighbor child, but we both like being able to look out over the creek, and we love watching the geese, bunnies, birds, and groundhogs. We also like our privacy. Our nearest neighbors are about 100 yards away, and they do sit on their porch (which looks directly at our RV) quite a bit, but we’re far enough away to provide a reasonable sound buffer.
-I enjoy tinkering with things. I’ve fixed quite a few little things: locks on compartments, holdbacks for doors, cabinet door hinges, all kinds of things. I’ve also had to find solutions for storage issues and have gotten maintenance stuff like flushing the holding tanks down pat
-I like the smallness. Yes, we’re big girls, and Lex is taller than I am, so we both bump into things and have to squeeze past one another, but I do enjoy having a place for everything and everything in its place…and I like all those places being easy to get to. There’s a basement compartment in the front of the RV that isn’t exactly easy to get to, but I manage.
-I do like knowing that if we need to move, we can. We don’t have to be tied to location should we find ourselves wanting to be somewhere else.
-Cleaning doesn’t take long, it seems that we shop less, waste less, make less trash, use less water, and we’ve been eating at home more…all things that save money and are eco-friendly.
-I really love the short commute. I like knowing that I can leave school, run home, and get back to work in less than fifteen minutes total.
-Chip, the maintenance guy, does a really good job keeping the place up. Our lawn is always mowed. He keeps it like a putting green around here.
Things that I’m not overjoyed about:
-I like the IDEA of mobility, but getting and being mobile is a different matter. It really is hard to prep this thing for moving it. By the time we climb into the truck, we are truly exhausted. Then, when we get wherever we want to go, there’s another couple of hours involved in getting settled all over again. Yes, this is all part of it, but it seems to both of us that it isn’t worth it for short trips. If we do all this, we might as well travel 2,000 miles as travel 200. At least our labors would seem justified. Plus, my grand designs on taking a long trip and camping in dozens of different places seems like a bad idea now. I think we should probably pick a destination, pick a couple of things to see or do on the way, but then just focus on the getting there and then have all the fun at the destination.
-We’ve come to the conclusion that what we need for short trips is a small travel trailer, say under 20 feet. We could keep it in storage and then just take it out when we were ready. Ultimately, we’d like to find a little piece of land that we could buy and set up our utilities, hook in, and just stay most of the year. Then, when summer comes, we could take it out for the long trip. If we had said property, we could keep our little travel trailer as a “guest house” when we weren’t using it, perhaps even rent it out for folks to take on trips. I see people doing a lot of that on Craigslist.
-I don’t like the mosquitoes primarily because they make Alexis so damned miserable. They don’t torment me quite the way they do her, but I’m no fan of the little buggers. There’s no getting her to go outside as long as these things are everywhere. I can’t wait until the weather gets cooler.
-I’m nervous about winter. We can do a lot of winterizing with tape and insulation, and we have tank heaters and a heated underbelly, but we don’t have any idea how warm this thing will stay in the cold. The a/c keeps this thing nice and chilly, so I’m hoping the furnace will keep it toasty.
Oh, and the thing everyone automatically assumes must be the hard part, two people living in a very small place, hasn’t really been much of an issue. Lex’s first week of working from home went well, I think. She says she’s still adapting to her new “office,” the smaller desk space, different views out the windows, and keeps zoning out a bit I suppose because things aren’t the same as they were. All that said, we’re adjusting pretty well. As always, no matter how big or small the place where we live is, we tend to spend the majority of our waking hours in the same room together or at least within earshot of one another..and then all of our sleeping hours together, too. 
I will go shut myself in a room to make a phone call so Lex can watch TV or work in peace, and I will wait to flush or bang pots and pans around until Lex gets off the phone when she’s on a work call, and I discovered this week that I really have to ventilate the place when I cook with onions because Lex only sits four feet away from the kitchen counter, and her eyes tear up badly. But that’s all small potatoes, really. The animals seem to be adjusting. The dog and cat spend a lot of time during the day in the bedroom, I suppose because it’s out of the way and we aren’t in there stepping over or on them. They’re still getting along pretty well, too. I’m sure there will come a time when we need our “space,” but when that happens, I have an office just a few blocks away, we both have our own vehicles, and we have all of outdoors. I really like sitting under the awning and just being quiet…at least as long as I can keep the mosquitoes away.
So, you see, there’s no short answer to the “how do you like living in the RV” question.. What I’ve been telling folks for the sake of keeping the tale shorter is “Yes, though there is a learning curve.”
I imagine we’ll continue on that curve for quite a while.
