Advice on long-term plan
- I am very unfamiliar with RVs. Never spent a night in one. - Never spent a night in a campground. - Have done some tent camping in my youth. - I am very active and in good shape for physical ac...
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You may have used the term "buy a home" as a general one, but my best advice is don't rush out an buy a home anywhere. Go rent one for a while.
I've seen way too many people retire and leave Alaska to go buy a retirement home someplace. It may be a place they visited on vacation, it's where the relatives or kids are, it's where they grew up, etc. Then after they've been then for a year, they figure out they really don't like the place, so they go through the hassle of selling the new house and moving someplace else. Lease a place for at least a year so you see what it's like there year round (some day you won't be traveling) also the heat, humidity, sales tax, state taxes, local politics and other oddities before you commit to buying and you're stuck with it.
Lease something, then go travel to see the rest of the country. If you find something you like better, lease there before buying.
The worst one I saw was one of my old bosses. He grew up in South Carolina and had only been back a couple of times during his adult life. He retired, moved down, got busy finding a piece of land and then a builder. He never took time to really look around and absorb the area. When the builder started building, he had a chance to slow down and look around the around the area. Before the house was done, he decided he didn't like the area, put the house up for sale and left S. Carolina.
Bill
I've seen way too many people retire and leave Alaska to go buy a retirement home someplace. It may be a place they visited on vacation, it's where the relatives or kids are, it's where they grew up, etc. Then after they've been then for a year, they figure out they really don't like the place, so they go through the hassle of selling the new house and moving someplace else. Lease a place for at least a year so you see what it's like there year round (some day you won't be traveling) also the heat, humidity, sales tax, state taxes, local politics and other oddities before you commit to buying and you're stuck with it.
Lease something, then go travel to see the rest of the country. If you find something you like better, lease there before buying.
The worst one I saw was one of my old bosses. He grew up in South Carolina and had only been back a couple of times during his adult life. He retired, moved down, got busy finding a piece of land and then a builder. He never took time to really look around and absorb the area. When the builder started building, he had a chance to slow down and look around the around the area. Before the house was done, he decided he didn't like the area, put the house up for sale and left S. Carolina.
Bill
