Most Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless. Even the well to do middle class will be homeless in no time if they have large healthcare bill due to serious illness. The rest will be eaten alive slowly by inflation. Americans need to learn how to live like people who grew up in the Depression era.
People fulltime in RV's all the time. Big 5th wheels with multiple slideouts are very much like living in luxury apartments. And then there are the rolling palaces. Motorhomes 45' in length costing over a million. You can live in whatever you want with all the comforts you want except a lot of space.
Luxury apartment? Never saw one with wheels. Million here will buy a huge house and a few acres....probably with a pool. Shop too.....
If I had a million dollars I'd live somewhere I could get a decent house in a decent neighborhood for less than $200k and put the rest in the bank. I figure those who buy $150k 5th wheels or half million dollar motorhomes have money to burn. You obviously have never looked at high end RV's but it's a moot point. I will however spend $24k on a Toyota hybrid and pull a tiny, lightweight trailer with it to sleep in. Altogether maybe $32k. Once my dad passes it'll come to that or moving overseas.
So you've perfected being a bum without working at it?
With all respect.....
You don't have a clue, based on your responses, as to what I'm doing. I worked hard a long time not so that I could look around at all my possessions but to have the freedom to come and go as I wanted without having to answer to people like you. I hope you and your house and your stuff are very happy together.
He’s bitter
With all respect....
You're oblivious to the obvious. You can't stand the idea of anyone living or doing anything different from the norm. You have to attack it and denigrate it. The original point of this thread is there are alternatives if you can't afford retiring in the U.S. in the conventional sense. You're essentially saying that no, one must continue to work or take government assistance rather than fulltime travel. I guess you're against living overseas too. And yes, folks like you do measure, as demonstrated by your posts, how well you're doing against how others are doing. You've done well, more power to you. I haven't. But I refuse to accept my only choice is to spend half my income on rent and be strapped all the time. Others feel the same way and are breaking away from the keeping up with the Jones attitudes. Enjoy your retirement and I assure you I will enjoy mine.
Just so we're clear my wife seriously started smoking pot about 8 years before we got married at 51. Kept that from me but became an issue. Her daughter and her smoke it about every day. It's not a lifestyle I want to be part of. So there's that conventional life just sitting there for the taking but there are two women in that house who are angry and vicious when they aren't high and silly like giggly teenagers when they are high. I'm in no position to help her and maintain another home somewhere else. But that's ok because I happen to like fulltime travel.
Pay no attention to him. He certainly has no room to talk.
He respects no one. Then wonders why no one cares for him.
chuckleJust be careful on the BLM land. The ranchers are for reelz.
Might not be bad if your 30, but 60? You have fragile health no insurance then you have a costly medical emergency. The question then becomes even if you can make contact with emergency services.....will they even be able to find you in time?
