RV Parks Fill With Workers. Campers Get Squeezed Out.
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RV Parks Fill With Workers. Campers Get Squeezed Out.

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 31, 202619 min

RV parks are quietly turning into industrial worker housing. A $100 billion SpaceX spaceport in Louisiana and a wave of data center construction in Texas and the Midwest are filling campgrounds with long-term crews, and recreational campers are the ones getting squeezed out. In this week's Monday News Edition: RVs as work camps. SpaceX announces a $100 billion spaceport in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, new RV parks are expected to house the construction crews, a Texas park near Abilene advertises 2,300 monthly sites for data center workers, and eastern Iowa campgrounds are already running full year-round. Monsoon...

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Hello, hello everybody. I'm Mike Gwenlund and this is the Monday, August 31st edition of the RV Podcast News episode. And this is one of two RV Podcast episodes we do every single week. This one publishes 6am every Monday and is filled with the biggest news stories that affect the RV lifestyle. And then of course on Wednesday, Jennifer joins

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me for our Stories from the Road edition where we have interviews and share RV lifestyle tips, travel ideas, answer your questions. Now, we're about how we put this show together because I think that matters. I'm a journalist by training.

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I spent more than 40 years working for big city newspapers, television stations, and networks, and in that business, you learn very quickly that you do not report anything you cannot source. Jennifer and I came up in the news business and old habits die very hard.

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