Follow up to living in RV by necessity
In the spring of this year I posted about a dilemma I had about the high cost of housing in Boise, ID. We thought about living in our RV temporarily to find other housing or decide if we were going to...
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shelbyfv wrote:
Congrats to OP and thanks for posting the happy ending! Regarding the smug snipes, it's not uncommon for those of us who have it relatively easy in retirement to attribute our condition to our own genius financial planning, self restraint, etc, etc. The fact is luck plays the major part in how this aspect of our lives turns out. More specifically, the absence of bad luck. Illness, derailed family, an economy that changes on the whim of others.... These things can bite anyone who was not lucky enough to have been born into affluence.
This is so true. My family has been blessed. We are all in pretty good health and able to do what we need to and even what we want to. My dad is still taking care of us girls, so financially we're in a good place.
But it could all go up in flames...look at what folks are going through in CA. We live where we could be wiped out by a healthy hurricane...look at the folks in Florida's Panhandle and North Carolina.
You can take care of your health diligently and still be struck down by cancer or some sort of dementia. Or an accident.
Yes, we worked hard to get where we are today, but I know all too well we have been blessed...with great luck and good fortune. Can't stick my nose in the air over anyone.
