Full Time Living Recap (Almost 1 Year)

ajriding wrote:
Buying two new vehicles then complaining of depreciation when you lose half the value as soon as you drive it away

I only lost 7% depreciation when I sold the motor home plus the 6% sales tax which is never coming back. That's not nearly "half". The Jeep will lose some value in a year, but they tend to hold their value well and I have to drive something, so that is no different whether I'm living in an RV or a house.

Edit: The point is, I think you miss-characterize my comments by saying that I complained about depreciation. I mentioned depreciation is saying that I didn't spend more than living in an apartment for a year including the depreciation. So that's really the opposite of complaining. In case you didn't read my original post carefully here again are the 4 reasons that I gave for getting out of full time RV life, and none of them were depreciation:

The reasons I got out were as follows:

We wanted to see other places where we could live and my wife could work (she's not retired). She found a place she liked so we decided to rent a place and stay here for at least a year.

I was tired of living in the small area of an RV. Our new rental house is like a mansion in comparison and I feel much more relaxed.

The stress of planning a cross country trip and then driving this big vehicle and now paying much more for gas and probably some minor repairs/maintenance were taking the fun out of this.

After you've seen one state or COE park, you've basically seen them all, in my opinion, with a few variations.