full timing for first timers
Hello All, this is my first time on this site so please let me know if I am posting to the wrong area, or if there are already answers to my questions that I was unable to find. Our situation is that...
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For as many that go full-time there are as many reasons why they made this choice.
For us it was the fact that Cat's work is "iffy" at best and knowing this and looking for the Escape Hatch her future work prospects are not in this area. We live mobile so we can be mobile and the people looking to hire her praise her ability to move to "their area" without fuss. We will move again in three years for her school options and after that we'll just move for the fun of it.
Renting, a house or apartment, nowadays makes good sense. Home ownership (or at the illusion thereof) is at times more of a liability than a asset and for me renting was my only option after my stroke. I too have a daughter in college but that kid, like her brother, will not come back soon, she's on her way and doing terrific.
I get the "owning" something concept. We are replacing the lights inside our coach with LED and making other changes. These improvement are not gifts to a landlord, or to be lost when we sell the place because we don't really plan to sell the coach.
Here's the thing: You know your family. You know yourself. You know if this style of living is right for you cats already. You don't need my permission or my acceptance. I'll agree to the money savings, We save over $12,000 a year sitting here in this box. We have heaps more "Free-time" which we use for homework, we have options ... not many people can say that.
But, we want to live small. We want to pull-n-go when the time comes. We want to unplug and go to the beach for the weekend or to go up to the desert or Burning Man or Coachella and have our home with us when we do these things.
It's more than saving money. It's a lifestyle choice. It's a dream to do more and require less.
If this sort of thing rings with you, then jump in. But, what you described was a very expensive trailer that would require a big truck to move it, or a service, and nothing in that is inexpensive, shouts Freedom or describes a desire of the heart to be "on the road".
My $0.02
For us it was the fact that Cat's work is "iffy" at best and knowing this and looking for the Escape Hatch her future work prospects are not in this area. We live mobile so we can be mobile and the people looking to hire her praise her ability to move to "their area" without fuss. We will move again in three years for her school options and after that we'll just move for the fun of it.
Renting, a house or apartment, nowadays makes good sense. Home ownership (or at the illusion thereof) is at times more of a liability than a asset and for me renting was my only option after my stroke. I too have a daughter in college but that kid, like her brother, will not come back soon, she's on her way and doing terrific.
I get the "owning" something concept. We are replacing the lights inside our coach with LED and making other changes. These improvement are not gifts to a landlord, or to be lost when we sell the place because we don't really plan to sell the coach.
Here's the thing: You know your family. You know yourself. You know if this style of living is right for you cats already. You don't need my permission or my acceptance. I'll agree to the money savings, We save over $12,000 a year sitting here in this box. We have heaps more "Free-time" which we use for homework, we have options ... not many people can say that.
But, we want to live small. We want to pull-n-go when the time comes. We want to unplug and go to the beach for the weekend or to go up to the desert or Burning Man or Coachella and have our home with us when we do these things.
It's more than saving money. It's a lifestyle choice. It's a dream to do more and require less.
If this sort of thing rings with you, then jump in. But, what you described was a very expensive trailer that would require a big truck to move it, or a service, and nothing in that is inexpensive, shouts Freedom or describes a desire of the heart to be "on the road".
My $0.02
