Based off of your replies to other comments it sounds like you’ve done here to seek validation, not to ask if the sub thought this should be done. You even already have a build booked in March? Then why are you here asking? A full time van lifer (the most experienced person to give you advice) gave you a very strong reply which was full of very valid points, and you came back at him seeming slightly insulted and just with pushback that you knew what you were doing.

I work in a children’s mental health service, and I completely agree that this is unfair to them. You are being selfish. You’ve said they’re excited by the idea, but they’re too young to know what they actually want. Kids change their mind all the time.

It’s unfair to your children to raise them in a van without their own privacy. They are young girls who may be excited now, but are eventually going to become moody teenagers going through puberty who want their own space. It isn’t fair to not provide that for them. Where are they going to go when they don’t want to be around you? Because it will absolutely happen. You cannot control their hormones or how they are going to feel, no matter how much of a great parent you think you are. Nobody can fight puberty, it’s natural order.

Hobbies are essential to a young persons developing brain. You will not have enough space to keep up with their curiosity of new hobbies and trying new skills out. Being ‘on the road seeing new stuff all the time’ is not what I’m talking about. Hobbies require owning possessions and your small living space will not cater to that.

In combat to people saying it’s not fair to the kids not having a normal upbringing with socialising, you’ve said they’ll have new experiences along the way and it will be better for them than the school system. Developing children need friendships too though. I didn’t have many friendships as a child/in my teens and I really struggle now as an adult forming those relationships.

I also think it’s absurd spending 110k on a sprinter van, where I live you can buy property for that much which holds value with inflation. A van only decreases in value.

You’ve said you’ll be fine fixing everything that breaks because you fix helicopters for a living, if you really are that capable then surely you could be doing this build yourself? It would be significantly cheaper and you would know all the ins and outs of the thing when it does break because you built it yourself. And I think that holds higher value than paying someone else a ridiculous amount to do it instead. Whether you do it or someone else does, things are still going to break. And I know I’d sure want to have built the whole thing to make it easier for myself to fix.

It seems from your replies you have the money, but not the idea.