the value of Simplicity

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Do you all know how crazy the wohnmobil world has become in North America? (Maybe I am just living in the Dark Ages)

As I continue to work on adapting the 230V electrical system of my Gen 2 JC to North American standards I was put in contact with a local electrician who also happens to live full time with his wife in a converted Sprinter van.

He roams around our area, Southern Ontario, doing solar installations and other electrical contract jobs. But living in their Sprinter 12 months a year. and he is clearly very expert in the most modern wohnmobile technology.

They stopped overnight at our property so he could look at our JC and help me with a plan to make some upgrades - like new solar panels and aux. batteries at least.

but when he showed me his Sprinter van and his workshop trailer, Now I am very experienced in Wohnmobil workd, but I was astounded.
It has EVERYTHING. switches and pumps and inverters and converters and chargers and solar panels and AC everywhere. Even a chest freezer, a microwave and a television. Satellite internet of course. Everything was automated and interconnected. (even his work desk in the trailer was hydraulic and moved up and down)

Here is a video of their configuration. It is quite amazing.
https://youtu.be/hAsYxgGW-WI
to save time, there is a highlights section at the very end. starting at 13m30secs.

And after we toured his van setup (which took about one hour), I felt actually a bit embarrassed to show him our JC. By comparison it is so simple. really the only electrical device in the JC is the 42W fridge. and a couple of cabin lights. and I feel perfectly happy with that simplicity.
actually before I saw their elaborate setup, I felt that the JC was in fact very sophisticated.

Now to be fair, there is a big difference between living in a wohmobile 12 months a year (and owning no fixed property at all) and using a JC for a few weeks or months a year on a casual basis, in warm weather.
But I am worried that he is going to propose a very elaborate plan with all kinds of wild upgrades and add ons.

I guess my question is are james Cook people "different" ? that we are happier with something simpler?
are the two worlds in Europe too? the Everything People and the Simpler is Better people?

[KlassikJames]

Don‘t forget:
Your JC was engineered and designed 30 years ago and is still working today.

[komposti]

Danke, für dieses Video - unglaublich, was alles in diesen Anhänger passt.
Sehr gut ausgebaut.
Allerdings ist Starlink leider für mich keine wirkliche Option mehr, da von einem merkwürdigen Menschen abhängig.

Ich freue mich schon auf die Tage (sollte ich sie noch erleben) an denen Canada Teil der EU wird.

Liebe Grüße über den Teich, möge der Frühling bald kommen, Thomas