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I forgot to answer that. Hmmm, all I need is for my husband to say lets do it and I'd be game. I doubt he would ever be game for something like this, though
That is all it would take for me as well...I could leave in a minute...
My wife and I are planning to do just that in the next year or two at the most. We're both long-time campers and have a 5th wheel now, but we plan to get a bigger 5er and bigger truck, shut down the business, sell everything and hit the road.
Unfortunately I've lost most of my retirement assets already, but we figure we can work odd jobs here and there for a few months at a time, draw off my social security, and live cheaper than staying in our sticks & bricks home.
My late wife and I had plans for that before her death, but my plans died when she did. Then last year my wife and I were talking about moving closer to our children, who happen to be scattered all over the west, and we decided on the full-time RVer lifestyle. We're both very anxious to get started. I've just got to get my business affairs in order, then start selling off everything.
I have friends who hit the road for a year or two, then came back to their sticks & bricks home, but we plan to go whole hog.
My wife and I are planning to do just that in the next year or two at the most. We're both long-time campers and have a 5th wheel now, but we plan to get a bigger 5er and bigger truck, shut down the business, sell everything and hit the road.
Unfortunately I've lost most of my retirement assets already, but we figure we can work odd jobs here and there for a few months at a time, draw off my social security, and live cheaper than staying in our sticks & bricks home.
My late wife and I had plans for that before her death, but my plans died when she did. Then last year my wife and I were talking about moving closer to our children, who happen to be scattered all over the west, and we decided on the full-time RVer lifestyle. We're both very anxious to get started. I've just got to get my business affairs in order, then start selling off everything.
I have friends who hit the road for a year or two, then came back to their sticks & bricks home, but we plan to go whole hog.
Anyone else around who feels like selling it all, quitting your job and taking off to another life? My husband and I talk about it all the time...just taking the kids out of school and living a slower paced life without all of the distractions...
What would have to happen for you to do it?
Living a slower paced life without all of the distractions...and what would have to happen for you to do it?
1) Slower paced life...where is the location going to be? Anything on your mind it? Is it in US or a foreign country?
2) Have you been there? have you live there?
3) After i found the location, i would spend a few weeks there to see whether I will want to live there in a long term or not.
4) As for the kids...how about the education system there? They are still young, I am sure they have not decided whether they want to live a slower paced life for the rest of their lives.
We are actively exploring other countries, scouting out our retirement home. We are late 30s and have small children, but feel that once we find the right place, then it's on. The children will go to ex-pat schools if the local schools aren't up to our standards. My DH is one of those people who is capable of working from anywhere in the world. For me, it would be trickier, but that's okay. I like a challenge. I'm not necessarily looking to super-dooper simplify, but enjoy the often slower-paced life in other countries.
One of my well traveled old friends says there is no geographic cure. He believes if you are unhappy inside here you'll be unhappy inside there.
I agree to a certain extent. But I think life changes and evolves. What was important at 30, is less so at 40 and maybe irrelevant at 50.
I was a military brat so we constantly moved and in many ways it was good. I think I have a better grounding and realistic view of the world compared to others I know that never travel outside of the county they live in. So if you are a parent it is probably not a bad idea for the occasional move to another place. Meet new people, new environment, new things, new climate, so on. It's good for the kids to learn how to adapt.
In life there are dreamers, doers and complainers. I'm a doer but I need to doodle and dream a bit, learn about it then do it. I'm not a bungee jumper doer. I think things through and then I execute. I actually have a little book of different things I want to do in my life and I keep working away at them bit by bit. I have personal and professional goals and a few material good goals.
As an example, my next personal goal outside of my career or owning something is to drive across the Nullabor plain in Australia from Perth to Adelaide and back again. I started researching it last year and am now looking at what I want to see in Western Australia. I'll sketch out a rough guide of things to see and do. It will probably be in 2010 when I do this trip.
Right before I hit 30 I was on a long trip to New Zealand and I had an epiphany that life was short and I needed to make the best of everyday. I realized much of my 20's in one sense had been wasted listening to other people, doing what i thought other people thought I should be doing, etc. I learned a lot though and it made me a better person but I didn't want to go through the next decade with regrets. And I haven't. I've really done quite well so far.
If you are not happy, figure out why, decide what to do about it and then execute and make it happen.
I'm not going to be sitting there at 65 like my friend is wondering where I pissed my life away to.
Been there, done that. I picked up and moved halfway across the country for a change of pace. The next adventure on the agenda is to join the Peace Corp at some point and serve in either the Pacific Rim or Latin America.
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