We're you apprehensive going full-time?
I've toyed with the idea of going full time or having a seasonal up North and a site in the South with a small RV to travel. Just wondering what was your deciding factor that made you take the lea...
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The house talk makes me chuckle- I sold a townhouse at the height of the market and ended up buying a house at the height of the market. I owned that house through the "market correction" and owned it for 12 years.
I shudder to do the math of what I put down, how much I paid each month, how little of the mortgage was paid off, and how much less I got for it when I sold it vs. what I paid for it.
I wasn't upside down and did some away with a little bit of money, but compared to what I put into the house- yeah, huge loss over the 12 years of mortgage payments.
We launched fulltime as a family of 4 back in 2015. It was scary, but we've met an amazing community with Fulltime Families. My kids have made friends on the road and there's rarely a campground that we go to without another family or two there (which is good and bad!). We (and the kids) can be as social as we want to be. In fact, sometimes it gets TOO social and we need time to decompress and reconnect as a family.
The kids both say they love living on the road. Neither want to go back to public school when they get back.
I can say that the kids my daughter has befriended on the road are better friends and have made more meaningful relationships with. The other kids know how important staying in touch is when you're on the road. And they get to choose their friends, not be forced to have friends by proximity.
But yes- giving up the house (we rented it just in case and then later sold it) and all of our belongings was stressful. We did it over time- not one big bang before we left. I think it would have been harder to do that vs. not seeing our stuff in storage for 3 years and then selling it.
It's a huge change fraught with emotions. It can be hard. For us, it's been worth it, though.
I shudder to do the math of what I put down, how much I paid each month, how little of the mortgage was paid off, and how much less I got for it when I sold it vs. what I paid for it.
I wasn't upside down and did some away with a little bit of money, but compared to what I put into the house- yeah, huge loss over the 12 years of mortgage payments.
We launched fulltime as a family of 4 back in 2015. It was scary, but we've met an amazing community with Fulltime Families. My kids have made friends on the road and there's rarely a campground that we go to without another family or two there (which is good and bad!). We (and the kids) can be as social as we want to be. In fact, sometimes it gets TOO social and we need time to decompress and reconnect as a family.
The kids both say they love living on the road. Neither want to go back to public school when they get back.
I can say that the kids my daughter has befriended on the road are better friends and have made more meaningful relationships with. The other kids know how important staying in touch is when you're on the road. And they get to choose their friends, not be forced to have friends by proximity.
But yes- giving up the house (we rented it just in case and then later sold it) and all of our belongings was stressful. We did it over time- not one big bang before we left. I think it would have been harder to do that vs. not seeing our stuff in storage for 3 years and then selling it.
It's a huge change fraught with emotions. It can be hard. For us, it's been worth it, though.
