Am I Just Naive
I caught the traveling bug years ago while moving halfway across country by car. I have since traveled by bus, by car and by train half way across the country several times and really enjoyed it. I ...
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Jim Shoe wrote:
Seems like there are a lot of I's in your post and no We's. Here's a couple of thoughts. Your husband is starting a new business. Can he run it by phone, or does it require face-to-face meetings and an actual physical mailing address that he can check on a daily basis? Does he even know the answer to that yet? Can you afford to make payments on a Class A plus a minimum of roughly $900/month in RV park fees? Then add in the expense of fuel and maintenance on your rolling home. It has moving parts that require extra attention and money. Then there's the kids. 10 years from now, you'll have a 14 and an 11 year old with no friends except each other. And they don't make an RV big enough for them to have their "space" at that age.
I'm not saying that it couldn't be done. But it seems like you're asking a lot of your family to make your (that's singular) dream come true.
As a couple who fulltimed for three years, we +1 the above. Does the rest of the family support this idea? Even if the kids think it is "cool" now, how about when they get older and decide it is not so cool anymore. Having had several small businesses myself in the past, I think running ANY business from a class "A" with the entire family in the same space would be very, very difficult on everyone. As a test why not try living in just one or two rooms in your present house (bathroom excluded) for a month? Cook, sleep, watch TV, home school, run a business all out of the same room at the same time. Try it for a while before you commit to it. I suspect that after a month doing all this at the same time in the same space, the money side of it would be the least of your concerns.
