This is a varied tourist area: fishing/hunting/boating, mostly, with a few mid-level fishing resorts and a well-known condo/golf lake community for the upper middle & a few condo lake developments, as well. Several very small villages and lots of rural subdivisions.
The RV dealers (there are a lot of them) have not moved much inventory that we can see for the past 2+ years. Sheds seem to sell faster as most of the homes are manufactured and need storage. In fact, storage is a major enterprise.
My west-side neighbor has utilities and a parked RV and is rarely in residence. My north-side neighbors had one moved in until they got their home built, but so far (2-3 years), it’s a rarely-used weekend vacation home.
DH wanted an RV...he still has wanderlust...but, as he ages, he sees them as a never-ending maintenance problem.
I think the city costs for taxes and utilities and the rising cost of fuel and food means people do not have the time/$ for vacations. I also wonder if the costs of a 2nd vacation property will become untenable for many, although we have low property tax, here.
Except for the lakeside golf community, this is a workingman’s vacation area. Just the folks getting squeezed right now.
And, don’t forget to factor in the many folks living with low-midlevel vax injuries. Not enough to keep them in bed, but enough to curtail their energy.
I see very few people in their 20s, here. It is just not a happening place. I don’t anticipate a boom of RVers, either. There just aren’t the RV parks and few 1 acre properties. Mostly 3-8 acres that need cleared and utilities installed.
Not sure of the taxes on them, but my neighbor could not build a woodworking shop and continue living in his RV. Not allowed. Sheds over 400 sq feet need permitting & are taxed.
Summer trash collection will become a problem to the extent that the county is exploring contracting the trash collection to a private entity. The landfill charges have already increased, due to limited space.
Our county regularly turns down those leftist tentacles that get a foothold by running *summer retreat* venues for *disadvantaged city youth*.
We’d all rather live a bit simpler by choice than participate in our own financial rape. I see it as a conservative oasis within 100 miles of the Beast System to our East and South. 25 miles north is one city of 25k and west is better farmland. You have to travel 75 miles west to find any attractions for the young & trendy....the very place we moved away from because they ruined it.
I think the article is sus.