Tldr; I love my job, hate the Netherlands, want to move somewhere warmer but where and how?

[ogjester@stranger.social]

@Gina I’m just curious; have you thought about looking at the Caribbean? It’s a very different lifestyle, but if you’re looking for nature, warm weather, and sun, I can’t think of a better place.

I meet many European expats when I go there.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@OGjester I've been to the 'Dutch' Carribbean islands, Curacao. Didn't like it.

Edit: half of the islands felt like a vacation park for trashy Dutchies, the other half poor and miserable. The beaches were so so.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@lalalasombra Yeah the 145.000 km one might be too much. 100k I can live with.

[accordingtowouter@mastodon.world]

@Gina they all look good :)

[anton@social.dollmaier.name]

@Gina are you alone with your cats? Those three are huge.
A fellow camper recommended staying under 6m total length. If your camper is longer, you have bigger parking and transit costs.
Nevertheless: nice choices. I'd take one as well for myself.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@anton true, but the small ones look so cramped 🥲

[eigenwijs@social.lol]

@Gina The Spanish television (RTVE) is always showing very nice small towns with very small populations that look indeed very good.

No idea about the coffee or the internet connectivity but the rest looks good to me.

[fedops@fosstodon.org]

@Gina at some point you will have to make up your mind whether you want to burn money on campers or on trips, or buy a house somewhere. Probably attempting all isn't really going to work.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@fedops Jup, that's the dilemma.

[yngmar@social.tchncs.de]

@Gina I assume you have the right driving license for these things.

Those are essentially converted delivery vans. Generally very reliable, but everything hinges on the engine. Look them up, get one that runs half a million km, not all do. The rest is just a box that should not leak and have the conveniences you desire (bed, galley, toilet, the showers suck anyways). It will break and you will fix it or pay twice for having it fixed.

You got the rest right, part fun adventure and part ghetto and a bonus part of "you can't stay here we're calling the cops".

And getting very excited about finding a manhole you can pry open with a hook so you can dump your toilet tank into the hole without having to carry your collected excreations around in a sloshy tank.

[yngmar@social.tchncs.de]

@Gina @lalalasombra 145k is nothing for a delivery van. Basically new. But it might not be the real mileage, turning back the mileage is extremely common. Most don't overdo it, maybe 50k or so. Look at the rest of the thing. Does that driver seat look like 145k or like 250k? Is the suspension knackered? The DPF clogged? Exhaust rusting away?

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@yngmar Oh man this has me really excited about leaving my fancy apartment with heated floors, robot vacuum and massive bathroom. 😂

[yngmar@social.tchncs.de]

@Gina Freedom has its price ;-)

[ahalam@social.vivaldi.net]

@Gina i think if you are worried about the cost, you should first try the train or flying to your preferred destinations. You can rent a car locally.

[yngmar@social.tchncs.de]

@Gina I can tell you from liveaboard experience, there is a definite progression in this life.

You start out inexperienced and spending too much money on the wrong things and then you have some adventures and learn a lot about a huge variety of things and people and places and in the end you never bother with a lifejacket anymore, know all the good places to repair, all the beautiful, free hangouts away from the noobs and you learnt how to fix anything. The newcomers look at you with a mix of admiration and wrinkled noses. All your clothes are worn paper thin and have holes and you know this doesn't matter as long as you keep one set of fancy clothes for when you have to briefly return to the world of ignorance to do some paperwork.

[ric@mastodon.qweb.co.uk]

@Gina Diesels at those mileages should still have a lot of life left, but in the UK I'd say that you want to be checking their MOT histories - see what sort of advisories and fails they've had over the years (notable rust, wobbles, etc), and whether they've had new belts yet as they're probably due if not, but... It doesn't seem like that's a thing you can look up over there? 🤨

[salsa@infosec.exchange]

@Gina "Come to Brasil"

[jannem@fosstodon.org]

@holly @Gina
So, things have indeed gotten better gender-wise (but I'm grading on a curve here). It depends on where you are and where you work. And LGBT issues have never become a political or religious punching ball.

But, I'm a middle-aged straight white north-European married academic that speaks Japanese. I may be a foreigner and immigrant but I certainly do it on easy mode. My perspective and experience is not that of people with other backgrounds.

[aurochs@todon.eu]

@Gina You can través by cargo and bring a tent, and spend some nights at houses and otjers at campsites.

[aurochs@todon.eu]

@lminiero @Gina @caffetino There is a big emptyness un some áreas of Spain, where houses can be ver y cheap and there's little (i mean few, not small) people around. You have to probably live away from the beach, though.
I do share your view of stacked flats and little greenery in Spain.