okoboji fan
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If you are bringing your date to your RV in the first month of dating and she hasn't been to your home,odds are she and her girlfriends will think you are married or live in your mothers basement. Good rule to live by , If she won't stay in a tent move on!!! If she likes to tent she love the camper!!!!!!
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webhannet
Southern Coastal Maine
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You can expect Glenn Close rising with a knife from the bathtub (which you probably don't have) - a "really good time" - or someone you can't shake. Most women probably wouldn't come into the park.
Actually, I've seen several romances begin in RV parks.
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fatmanobx
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paulm999 wrote:Haven't had a date in 17 years. I've been living in an RV for 17 years. I think there's a connection. I think it depends on how many cats you have!
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jims1
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I think that if you are up front about it, Hey I live in a 5'er, motorcoach, etc at So-SO's campground. Tell them that you like to travel, and mean it. If you own a 5'er and a honda civic, no truck- then it looks "Homeless".
If you have a Class A and a civic, then its fine.
Does the place look junky? Old? Your parents camper?
If you can easily move it for a weekend outing, then "let's go camping" doesn't sound like the beginning of Deliverence......
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JayWalker2009
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I will be completely honest....my ex husband, after our divorce, decided on a totally minimalist life and has lived in his RV the last seven years since we've been split. He has had a very hard time in the dating scene. Only dated one woman for more than that first date, and even that was fairly short lived.
I think it isn't so much women being too materialistic, just that as they get older, they might view 'dating' as a preamble to finding a longterm relationship, and they might just not see themselves living in a camper and if the guy in question seems that is the lifestyle he has chosen, it might not be her thing. I don't think anyone can really fault someone for that, if that is not what they want. It doesn't make them a materialistic snob. He and I are still friends, and I have told him that yea, living in the RV is probably a deterrant in his dating success.
All women won't be opposed to it, so I'd say you just somehow let it out of the bag very early on, so they know, and you won't have to worry about giving her that as a surprise later on.
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TOOBOLD
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I think you are going to have a hard time bringing a date back to the RV. I'm the camper in the family and I think if my husband would have asked me back to a trailer when dating I would have turned him down. Now before I get slammed I actually married for love and not money. He had his degree, a job offer, barely any money in his account and a large student loan.
I also think it depends where you live. We were in Los Angeles and not many people live in their trailers in the city. You mention "girl",so I'm assuming your younger than 30. Now that I'm in my 40's I think I would be more open to it if I was dating.
IMHO, most young women will hear trailer and probaly won't want to go any further. Not a popular answer, but the plain truth. I would suggest take her out a few times make sure she is into you first before you tell her where you reside. You'll stand a better chance she'll actually see what you're about.
Is this a long term living arrangement? I'm sure she'll want to know that.
Good luck
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Happy Prospector
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I tell the gals that I meet that I am a fulltimer and travel in my house and there really has not been a problem. Some may not like a trailer lifestyle, but oh well that is dating. One problem most ladies have a job and a house and aren't "mobile" and wonder to themselves how long you will be around. The big "but" is if you can keep them "happy at night" and wanting more you have it made. The only problem I have had is when they want to move in and start changing things in my "mancave".
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Pokey2
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Patrick Dempsey/Derek Shepherd (Grey’s Anatomy) has and lives in a trailer part of the time on the show. I’ll bet most ladies would be happy to join him there.
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westernrvparkowner
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Take her to your 2011 Newell, you will be a winner. Take her to your 67 skoolie on blocks with tinfoil shades and shag carpet, you might as well get a big "L" for loser tattooed across your forehead. Seriously, living in an RV may be a conversation starter, but is also probably a deal breaker unless Brad Pitt is considered your ugly brother.
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Thunder Mountain
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I think of some of the dumps I lived in and the girls I took back there after a date. Wonder any of them ever went out with me again. That includes my wife of 37 years.
If I had took them back to my bus back then, they would have thought I was a billionaire. Think the bus is bigger than our first house. I know it didn't have central air, microwave, surround sound...
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