Kibbo is rethinking #VanLife to create a community of digital nomads paying up to $3,650 a month to roam at will

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• Kibbo is creating a business out of fusing the #VanLife community with a membership model to create an on-the-road collective of digital nomads on the west coast.
• Kibbo members can access "Clubhouses" — with a kitchen, laundry, common spaces, gear, and food — in different locations around California, Utah, and Nevada.
• For those who don't have a tiny home on wheels but still want to partake, Kibbo rents newly converted Mercedes-Benz Sprinter camper vans for a monthly fee.
• Monthly membership payments can go up to $3,645, not including the sign up fee.
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Kibbo is fusing the #VanLife community with a membership model to create an on-the-road collective of digital nomads across the country. 

Camper van and RV sales  have skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic as more companies started announcing long-term work from home plans. Now, Kibbo is hoping to jump on the trend of "working from anywhere" by creating a fleet of camper vans and "clubhouses" around the western half of the country to create a community around digital nomad-ship.

The idea for the company came from its founder Colin O'Donnell, who decided to combine the "freedom of van life" with the community feeling he experienced at a co-living space in San Francisco, according to O'Donnell's Medium post. This, along with Kibbo's membership model, creates what the company says will be a co-living alternative to an otherwise isolated life on the road, all with the added benefit of being an affordable and flexible housing solution.

Kibbo will begin building out its collection of clubhouses in the fall, starting with Big Sur, California, Black Rock Desert, Nevada, Zion, Utah, and Ojai, California.

More clubhouses in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley will be constructed next year, and the company plans to expand to cities like San Diego, Seattle, and New York in the future, according to O'Donnell's Medium post. 

Kibbo's idea of a community and co-living space around van life didn't stem from just the onset of the pandemic and, subsequently, the increase in remote workers.

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"Unlike top-down, traditionally designed and built real estate developments, Kibbo is setting out to build the first of the next generation of cities: flexible, reconfigurable, designed and defined by the people that live in it, off the grid and sustainable," O'Donnell said.

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In 2017, 47.7% of home renters spent at least 30% of their income on housing, and in 2018, 25% of renters spent half of their income on the same, according to a study from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

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Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

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