Contemplating A Lifestyle Change
My wife and I are contemplating the idea of selling our home, buying a Class A diesel pusher and traveling. I am a retired veteran. This change poses many questions and I would love to find folks who...
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Begin by deciding on a State for residency. We chose South Dakota over California mainly for tax reasons. Buying a coach and paying close to 10% sales tax wasn't appealing. SD is 3%, so we saved a ton of $$ right there. They also have no State income tax so that too was appealing. I decided to retire, (3rd time :)) in July, so we started moving all our stuff to SD...registration, voter, bank accounts etc., in December. Once I retired, we took a trip to SD for our driver's licenses. We use Americas Mailbox which is simply a mail forwarding service. We send them an email and they send us our mail C/O General Delivery wherever we are.
If your wife is hesitant about leaving the "nest" behind, think about traveling the first year to see if there would be somewhere else you'd like to live. We decided we like Az weather, and the DW has family there so we winter two months there. Bought a mobile home out of a foreclosure and it gives us a place to store those things you just can't part with and the kids don't want. While in Az for two months, we schedule our annual checkups and dental work along with fido's annual and any service that needs to be done on the coach. Then it's off on another adventure...enjoy the life..my feeling is we've spent most of our life protecting it, now's our chance to see what we've been protecting.....Dennis
If your wife is hesitant about leaving the "nest" behind, think about traveling the first year to see if there would be somewhere else you'd like to live. We decided we like Az weather, and the DW has family there so we winter two months there. Bought a mobile home out of a foreclosure and it gives us a place to store those things you just can't part with and the kids don't want. While in Az for two months, we schedule our annual checkups and dental work along with fido's annual and any service that needs to be done on the coach. Then it's off on another adventure...enjoy the life..my feeling is we've spent most of our life protecting it, now's our chance to see what we've been protecting.....Dennis
