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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I think the OP made his/her/their own luck. I went back and read the original thread. All 5 pages. And unless there was a lot of editing of the thread, I didn't see much in terms of negative commentary. Certainly nothing that I saw that fit the curmudgeon description.
You can plan all you want, but if cost of living in a particular area exceeds what you planned for, then you have to make a decision, which OP did. Having enough flexibility to be able to deviate, as necessary, is part of planning.
It's not so much whether you plan perfectly or not, it's what options you choose when you have to deviate from the plan. I feel I have a pretty good plan going forward, but things could obviously change, outside of my control, to impact that plan. I believe I will have enough resources to make adjustments to the plan, as necessary. That, I believe, is what happened to OP, and what most folks posting here are saying. Plan as well as you can, and make sure you have enough assets to keep your plans as flexible as possible.
Mike
You can plan all you want, but if cost of living in a particular area exceeds what you planned for, then you have to make a decision, which OP did. Having enough flexibility to be able to deviate, as necessary, is part of planning.
It's not so much whether you plan perfectly or not, it's what options you choose when you have to deviate from the plan. I feel I have a pretty good plan going forward, but things could obviously change, outside of my control, to impact that plan. I believe I will have enough resources to make adjustments to the plan, as necessary. That, I believe, is what happened to OP, and what most folks posting here are saying. Plan as well as you can, and make sure you have enough assets to keep your plans as flexible as possible.
Mike
