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If the other, more influencial, half would agree, l'd do it in a shot. Sell the house, and with the proceeds buy a RV and a small flat as backup in case something horrible went wrong further down the line.
philip
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hi Artona, I would, especially if I could spend most of my time out of this country. But the shackles of work.....
______________________________________________________________ "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."-A.A.Milne
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I'm spending 5 days trapped in a house while I fit various bits and pieces to the van, and sort out stuff. I've got itchy feet and can't wait to get going again tomorrow. At least I'm sleeping in the van, and it's getting better organised .
Charlie and I should actually be off on our adventure properly tomorrow after weeks of staying in various places working on the trailer, sorting out heaps of paper and my storage, and getting the van organised. Probably get fed up and want to buy another house in a few weeks .
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and Charlie the dog, but he canīt read, write or use a computer!
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A friend of a friend did what Phillip suggests twenty years ago. He and his wife were sun followers. The chap took redundancy from British Gas, sold the house and bought a motorhome and flat for over 50s in Colchester.
Until recently they travelled to Portugal for winter and enjoyed summer over here. Their last RV cost them Ģ160 000.
I heard recently they had decided they were too old for traveling and had retired to the flat. But what a time they had for those twenty years
As much as I love being out and about in my wendyhouse I doubt I would/could ever full time.
Maybe it is the way I was brought up I don't know, but my home is my security both physically and financially.
Years of paying off the mortgage, knowing that our house is to be our retirement fund, and should anything go wrong we could always downsize to release funds is possibly too ingrained now.
With living in an RV of any description, it will depreciate not gain monetary wise, so if there was ever a problem/accident you could face being literally homeless.
Yes you can sell up and put the house money in the bank against this happening, but if there was ever a time you wanted to go back to "bricks and mortar" it could be very hard to afford buy, and with the council/housing associations having waiting lists of years just to get a tiny place anywhere they can find to put you, with no real choice of where you might end up, that's not my idea of an assured old age.
The romantic side of me says it would be lovely to drive off into the distance, and spend the rest of my life wandering from place to place as the mood takes me. The practical side of me says, have a van, go off and have fun and adventures, but your own little bricks and mortar place is always there for you too.
Glenn's comments??? No Way!!!
Each to their own, and good luck to all who follow their dreams and are happy, what ever those dreams may be
Tina
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The concept is quite personal and guided by ones individual circumstances. For our own part, we sold our business back in 1988 and moved aboard our small trawler yacht on which we lived for 7 years during which time we 'did' the Med and much of the French waterways. In 2005, a medical problem hit me and decisions had to be made. We sold the boat, sold the family home, refurbished the retirement apartment Pippa's mother had left her, bought a motorhome and have never looked back. For the past two years I have had to be back in the UK for a week every 6 to 8 weeks for medical checks/treatment.
We know what it would be like to full time having fulltimed on the boat so we are making the best we can now and thoroughly enjoying it.
Our advice, go for it if you can make the adjustments.
Live every day as if it were your last, Brian.
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