Why Are Full timers Wrong?
Every so often we see threads about newly minted full time travelers and the "resistance" they encounter from friends, and family, when they reveal their plans. Somme even keep their plans a secret t...
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Investments aside, it is a lot cheaper for me to live and travel full-time in my RV than it is for me to live in a sticks & bricks house. Surprisingly I drive less in one month full-time RVing than many of my neighbors who live in houses and go to work everyday.
Out here in California a lot of my former neighbors drove 50-miles/day, or more, one way to their workplace, that’s 100-miles/day round trip, 5-days a week, to and from work. Approximately 2,000-miles/month and that does not count what driving they may do after work going out to a movie, restaurants, etc., and driving on the weekends. I do not drive 2,000-miles/month fulltime RVing.
Full-time RVing I have no mortgage, no homeowner association dues, no home insurance on top of my vehicle insurance. My 5th wheel trailer insurance and extended warranty is a lot cheaper than my former home insurance, especially if you include earthquake insurance on my house, which is highly encouraged in California. In short, my expenses are a lot less and I save more money every month full-time RVing than I would if I were maintaining a house.
Other than that, as earlier mentioned, the lifestyle is priceless. It is healthier being in the great outdoors than it is living in a house. If I don’t like my neighborhood I can just leave unlike owning a house where you are responsible for that property whether you live there or not. For me, and probably a lot of other folks, the advantages of full-time RVing outweigh any advantages that owning and living in a house may bring.
But I will also say that this lifestyle is not for everyone, and thank God for that, because if it were for everyone the campgrounds would always be full and the roads cluttered with RV’s. Living in, and owning, a house served a valuable purpose for me and now full-time RVing serves that same valuable purpose. For me, because I can only speak for myself, fulltime RVing has more of an intrinsic value than it does an extrinsic value.
Out here in California a lot of my former neighbors drove 50-miles/day, or more, one way to their workplace, that’s 100-miles/day round trip, 5-days a week, to and from work. Approximately 2,000-miles/month and that does not count what driving they may do after work going out to a movie, restaurants, etc., and driving on the weekends. I do not drive 2,000-miles/month fulltime RVing.
Full-time RVing I have no mortgage, no homeowner association dues, no home insurance on top of my vehicle insurance. My 5th wheel trailer insurance and extended warranty is a lot cheaper than my former home insurance, especially if you include earthquake insurance on my house, which is highly encouraged in California. In short, my expenses are a lot less and I save more money every month full-time RVing than I would if I were maintaining a house.
Other than that, as earlier mentioned, the lifestyle is priceless. It is healthier being in the great outdoors than it is living in a house. If I don’t like my neighborhood I can just leave unlike owning a house where you are responsible for that property whether you live there or not. For me, and probably a lot of other folks, the advantages of full-time RVing outweigh any advantages that owning and living in a house may bring.
But I will also say that this lifestyle is not for everyone, and thank God for that, because if it were for everyone the campgrounds would always be full and the roads cluttered with RV’s. Living in, and owning, a house served a valuable purpose for me and now full-time RVing serves that same valuable purpose. For me, because I can only speak for myself, fulltime RVing has more of an intrinsic value than it does an extrinsic value.
