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Without wanting to be too blunt
Curious to see blunt you.
On your rant I read a great (actually quite shit) reddit thread where someone relayed an anecdote about seeing a couple in a blinged out #vanlife staging photos at a beauty spot, cooking up an amazing set of steaks and assortment of salad, staging more pics only to bin it all then drive off.
I think my deep loathing of Instagram, Pinterest, etc. is that it is democratisation of marketing. Which instead of being positive just results in an expansion and normalization of the sort of the vacuous shit that used to be confined to TV and print media - which everyone understood to be a fake version of life.
hugo7
Why do you feel the need for the extra space?
Do you park on a resi street? Can you guarantee that you'll not be blocking light into people's front room or gardens?
Do you exclusively stay in campsites? If not have you considered that a LWB van takes the parking space of three cars which carry 5x more people? And that local roads in popular locations generally just aren't designed for massive vans
Without wanting to be too blunt, I really hate the way influencers have persuaded everyone they need big fuck off vans now. Especially in the outdoors community which I would like to think is conscious of their consumption and outdoor access in general.
A van to me should be closer to camping than driving a studio flat to the lake district for the weekend, and the more people that do the latter are the ones who risk spoiling access in general. Big van owners IME are often more akin to 'love the outdoors' youtubers who spend the weekends walking one mile and then flying a fucking drone over the fells.
Apols to anyone offended! (Except the drone folk)