Can someone explain why some RV parks are 55+? What do they have against young folks who aren't children?

Question

Okay, I don't have kids or want them around either. I want the peace and quiet a childfree environment affortds and can afford it. Why don't they just say "No one under 18"?

Or have a policy like this "Anyone making excessive noise or drinking too much beer will be asked to leave."? I'm 28, hate children and want to be without them. I'm quiet and would rather hang out with retired people. Anyone with an intelligent response?!

Answer 1

MAYBE BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT LITTLE CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH THEIR YARDS SCREAMING, DESTROYING STUFF, HANGING OUT, ETC. people BUY IN THOSE PARKS, TO GET AWAY FOR KIDS (even me)

Answer 2

The older I get the more I can appreciate retirement communities. Many older folks really need the peace and quiet. Younger adults can be just as rowdy as children, so 18+ would not work. There are plenty of RV parks that are not 55+. If you don't like the rules, look somewhere else.

Answer 3

Old people hate children. They also drink a lot, and often have guns, which is a bad combination when kids are running around. Plus, some of those RVs are driveable, and old people are notoriously bad drivers, so the risk of splattering kids all over their RV grills forces most insurers of old people to disallow kids within 500 feet (approximately 167 meters) of any RV owned by people more than 55 years old.

Plus, old people smell bad, and if there are too many kids around, they will tell their parents that the old people smell bad, resulting in fewer visits by the parents to the old people.

It's a vicious cycle. Better to just stay away from old people altogether. Until they die, and leave you money in their wills. Then they're safe. Even desirable. Again. At last.

On the other hand, children are the most destructive force in nature. More powerful than hurricanes or tornadoes or earthquakes or mudslides. And more relentlessly destructive than a slow-moving glacier grinding down mountains. You may THINK that vase is safely out of reach of that 3-year old, but think again. It'll be just so many pieces of once-pretty pottery pretty soon, mark my words.

Keeping kids away from oldsters' RV parks is just a sort of "insurance" policy for the geezers' goods.

In fact, the only really safe group of people on the planet are middle-aged folks with computers. We sit and type and hurt no one.

Mostly.

Answer 4

I'm 29 and I can tell you--well, young people in their teens & 20's tend to have children. And those children tend to run around the neighborhood like wild animals, leaving trash and toys all over the place....People in their teens and 20's and 30's tend to have lots of "friends", cousins, and budies visiting them--hanging out, playing music, and talking loud. About 4 months ago, an old man in his 60's shot a man in his 20's--Why? Well, the 60 year old lived across the street from a guy in his 20's. The young guy had a "Friend" who would visit him, hang out on the porch, drink beer and curse all day. The young guy's friend even made harassing & threatening comments to the old guy--so one day a fight broke out and "Bang".

People 55 and over have worked hard all their lives and they deserve to live in Peace. They dont need any ill-mannered younger people and all their kids, friends, cousins and brothers and sisters making their neighborhoods miserable.

Peace

Answer 5

Those folks who are 55+ mostly prefer quiet, relaxation without loud music, loud kids, dogs, partying, etc.

They aren't particulary against young folks who aren't children, but most of those folks under 55 still have young children with them, so they just try to exclude all those under 55. Most likely just to keep the kids out.

Answer 6

IT like retirement housing, where some residents dont want to noise of lots of kids etc. We are all different

Answer 7

Guess you are going to have to take your trailer out to the desert, lots of peace and quiet there.

Answer 8

because there are soo many old people in az