My fiance and I have a transient lifestyle since we are both in university and our parents live about 3 hours from each other. Instead of sinking our money into rent, I want to buy a used holiday trailer and drag that to our ever-changing summer jobs. We borrowed a family member's motorhome last summer, and things worked out alright, but my fiance is hesitant to do it again (it had mice and he's afraid of them). I can cover the cost of the mouseless RV myself, but he wants to pay rent and drive about 25 minutes from an apartment to work. I would rather park the RV in the shopyard of where we will be working and walk to the shop in the morning to save money (we will have the same boss, but different job titles). Our bosses are okay with this, since us living onsite discourages thieves going after tools, but my fiance can't see the point.
I want to have an asset tied to money I dish out instead of feeding a landlord my wages. I hate the idea of spending money with nothing to show for it. My fiance isn't into campiing, so the plan would be to resell the RV once we have stable employment. I realize it will be tighter living space in the RV and without many of the creature comforts my fiance is accustomed to. He thinks high-speed internet, x-box, and TV are necessities rather than luxuries, while I've only played video games a handful of times in my life, had the luxury of dial-up internet only once I was 15, and spent much of my childhood living in an RV following my father's road construction job and camping at the lake. We are from vastly different classes of people (professionals vs. rednecks) and this is challenging our ability to be nice once in a while. We both think we are trying to be practical, but my fiance thinks I'm going overboard. Am I? Which way would you go on this?