RVer's culture
Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts' "They're Family Now: The Creation of Community Among RVers" argued that retired people have a better life when living in recreational vehicle than those in other forms, because of a greater sense of community and fewer emotional problems. Moreover, they also argued that it is easier to create social bonds among RVers than other settings in North America. Counts and Counts researched on the RVers' life by dressing themselves as Rvers, and stayed in private and public RV parks for two-and-one-half months. They interviewed altogether fifty of the RVers throughout North America. The use of questionnaires was abandoned after two weeks because of the RVers preferred them to ask questions through conversations. The authors found out that retired RVers are from heterogeneous groups with different backgrounds. They have many different alternative RV lifestyles; such as staying in private resort areas, living in public parks - boondocking, full-time RVing and part-time RVing. Those in private parks have limited personal space, but they are able to stress the comfort and convenience of full-hookups and safety security system. Likewise, those in public parks, boondockers, preferr
ed their spacious docking area, unlimited external space and the freedom from restricted rules. Further, full-time RVers considers the vehicle as their home while the part-time RVers have another base, a cottage or an apartment, in other city or town. Moreover, they should travel to more different locations throughout North America in order to gather more different information from various groups of RVers. Furthermore, as the research is held between October to December, which is within the winter season, the authors could not make accurate analysis based only on this period. Different time of the year might greatly affect the results of the study, especially in the summer season, a whole lot more RVers would be on the road. Therefore, the author should extend the time or construct another research in different seasons. On the other hand, the authors also described that there was limited space environments in a mobile home, and it can cause a lot of problems when shared with the inappropriate person. The limited space can also limit the personal belongings; things have to put away and space has to be utilized efficiently to plan for the future. As a result, a careful plan for the future is needed before joining into the RVers groups. Counts and Counts turned the abandoned questionnaires into questioning the RVers through conversations because the RVers refused to cooperate. Although face-to-face interviews might require a longer time and relatively more
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