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Big_Redneck
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Feb 20, 2015

Any of regret going fulltime Rving

When one sell there home to buy a big Motor Home to go full time could have made a mistake. I love my RV but never ever wanted to go full time. I need a home base. Maybe for some that ok but I don't think my wife would go for that. Now I want to travel out west this summer again for a month or so and that about it.
  • thankfully we're all different. if fulltiming was for everyone, it would ruin it for those who enjoy it. most who begin fulltiming don't know if its going to be a long term or short term adventure, so you should always have an exit plan. there shouldn't be any regret for trying it, if you planned ahead for an exit. if you sold everything, bought an RV and didn't allow for any way to go back, then that was a mistake in planning, not a regret.
    the only regret would be in not trying something that may change your life for the better. we all occasionally change our mind after trying out a new home, a new career, a new state, a new lifestyle, or a new partner. look forward, not backward
  • I never thought I'd enjoy it. We had a house and spent months the last 2 winters in AZ. Finally, it hit me......no big house to clean, no lawns to mow, now taxes to pay.....go where we want, when we want. No worries about frozen pipes at home, trees falling on the hosue. No hassles with the internet or tv people..... We have a rig big enough for my sewing....yes, I made adjustments...left 9 bins of fabric in storage...but I can SEW (just finished a baby quilt).....and I LOVE it! We've been on the road since the end of Sept.....I'll get back atcha in a year or 2 or 5 to see if I changed my mind. :)
  • There is no right or wrong.....all personal preference! I have no direct personal experience, but have talked to allot of campers over the years and it's probably a 50/50 split on similar questions.
  • "Any of regret going fulltime Rving" NO!!!

    My regret is that someday I can't drive and have to park the RV.
  • I imagine that you will get a variety of responses. Myself I would like to go full time but, I know that it would never work for me. I need to have somewhere that I can come back to. On a three or four month trip I am always happy to be home again. I realize that everyone is different and has there own needs and wants. We would definitely miss the grandchildren if we were full timing and gone for months at a time.

    One of my older brothers has been full timing for over ten years now and is starting to wish that he had kept his home due to medical reasons. He keeps telling me that I am lucky that I have someplace to go home to. JMO