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Posted: 1/10/2019 12:51:23 AM EDT
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If I did this I would end up in the Orient like Rambo. Somewhere warm where I can get by most of the time with light shorts, a t-shirt and sandals. Someplace with excellent and cheap food like Thailand or Vietnam.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 12:54:51 AM EDT
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My uncle divorced his wife of 30 years and told his 4 grown kids that he loved them but never wanted to be contacted again. He sold everything he owned, liquidated his pension and moved to Punta Arenas, Chile.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 12:58:40 AM EDT
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Friend of mine fo'd. At one point he was in Ketchikan AK, another point Pittsburgh, best I can gather now is that he's in MT, but it's been probably 4 years or so since I've heard from him. He's cut off contact with pretty much everyone. At this point he probably has a bad drug habit, he was popping a lot of pain meds (opioids) before he fo'd. I'm rambling but you get the point. Sometimes you need to get a new beginning. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 12:58:52 AM EDT
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I highly recommend "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck. It's a classic long-distance road trip book by a master storyteller. TLDR; Steinbeck has a custom camper built for his pickup truck and he hits the road with his dog, Charley. They are out to see America. He has no set schedule and goes where the winds blows. I really enjoyed that book. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:00:08 AM EDT
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"The things you own, end up owning you"----Fight Club
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:06:04 AM EDT
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I did that almost 30 years ago. No matter where you go... There you are. Its been a hell of a ride.
I was offered a job to travel with the Ringling Bros Circus. I turned them down. Running away with the circus was too cleché. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:08:01 AM EDT
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I'm doing it right now. Just work remote and move around every 3-6 months.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:09:36 AM EDT
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Damn, wish I would have seen this post before I got married and had three kids.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:17:50 AM EDT
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Give him credit for cajones. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:23:23 AM EDT
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Cajones means crates. You’re thinking of conejos. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Give him credit for cajones. cojones plural noun co·?jo·?nes | \k?-'ho-?nas Definition of cojones 1slang : NERVE sense 3 2slang : TESTES History and Etymology for cojones Spanish, literally, testicles ........................... conejo MASCULINE NOUN 1. (animal) a. rabbit ... 3. (vulgar) (female genitalia) ............................... Alternatively, he could have used Huevos. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:26:51 AM EDT
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I've been "this" close many times.
we'll see how the interviews this week turnout.. then I may do the same. (~) just gets to the point where you've had enough BS in your life. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:29:51 AM EDT
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That's one of my favorites that gets enjoyed once a year, Probably the best snapshot of 1960's America ever written. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I highly recommend "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck. It's a classic long-distance road trip book by a master storyteller. TLDR; Steinbeck has a custom camper built for his pickup truck and he hits the road with his dog, Charley. They are out to see America. He has no set schedule and goes where the winds blows. I really enjoyed that book. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:31:30 AM EDT
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My son has just taken that life style up. His opinion is, I'm not playing the game. He is a vet, had a little TBI from blowing things up on route clearance in the Stan. Gets a small check from it. His buddy has been doing it for about 2 years I guess. Doesn't want to be in the Matrix. Go in debt for the college, the house the 2.5 kids etc. He's divorced, She is still military and will be taking his kid out of state for a while doing some training. So his "plan" is to pay off the debt he does have (divorce and credit card) by minimal living and work when he wants to.
Not much of a plan in my opinion and I let him know it. You're only young once I guess. 
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:32:06 AM EDT
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I'm 34 and managed to tuck away just $3500 a month over the last year or so. If I can keep that l for the next 6 years, I'll probably fuck off to east asia for a year or two. Go bounce around the Philipines, Thailand, Bali, and Korea.
Maybe sell dick pics on instagram for quick cash if needed. 
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:33:32 AM EDT
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I would’ve drive through the lower 48 and Alaska stopping anywhere that piques my interest. Some folks want to see the world but there’s so much to see in the good old USA first. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Not all those who wander are lost. My plan.....a truck and cab over camper or maybe a trailer and keep on driving. It always seems like people in the North head South, and those in the South head North. Anywhere but where they’re from. Some folks want to see the world but there’s so much to see in the good old USA first.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:33:45 AM EDT
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Freedom Janice Joplin said it best: “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:34:34 AM EDT
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Chris McCandless wasn't wrong and he was just a college student. If you haven't read Into the Wild, do it now. Or at least watch the movie. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:35:19 AM EDT
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Does he bang lot lizards in the camper? 
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:38:43 AM EDT
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Here yo go OP.
This is very thought provoking My Dinner With Andre https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j8v_XqFO8Bc |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:39:11 AM EDT
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Save some cash
Move to some asian sweat pit Hookers hookers hookers run out of money check out kaboom style Life well spent |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:40:02 AM EDT
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I meet bums every day.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:40:58 AM EDT
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Chris McCandless wasn't wrong and he was just a college student. If you haven't read Into the Wild, do it now. Or at least watch the movie. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:42:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You can "walk away" without living 1000 miles off the grid, eating poison berries. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:51:21 AM EDT
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Kinda doing it myself right now. I just left my cushy Real Estate job in CA to move to Texas and get my Class A CDL and become an OTR trucker for at least a year. I can't explain it but it's something I've always wanted to do. I'm 48, divorced and the kid went off to college so I figured I better do it now if I'm ever going to do it. So far, it's been a blast. I feel like I'm 18 again. Well, my knees don't but you get the idea.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:51:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And then he died in a junk bus in the interior of Alaska. I read the book years ago. Grest book but he was an idiot and he ultimately died because of it. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:59:45 AM EDT
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Go drive a truck.
I just had to upgrade my CDL to an A so I can tow heavy trailers with my bucket truck , and we pay a driving school to administer the pre trip inspection test, and driving portions of the test. I was offered a job by three different trucking company recruiters and the guy who gave me the test  .
The people who pay for the full course $6k, will spend 4 weeks in school and be offered a job making 60k a year and reimbursement for their tuition. You could get paid to walk away, and you can live in a company truck and make even more money for never wanting to go back home. I'm thinking this has to be one of the fastest and least expensive ways to 60k+ a year, and you could do it with minimal cost of living. Some of them even pay per diem, and hotels on mandatory DOT off days. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 1:59:53 AM EDT
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I dream about dissappearing and foing.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:03:06 AM EDT
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Coworker. Sold his huge Snap On box full of tools to another coworker. Sold his home and car, left in his truck truck for who knows where.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:05:57 AM EDT
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I’ve done it twice, sort of. The first time I brought my wife and a duffle of clothes. The second time I brought my wife, two kids, and about eight duffles of clothes. Sold houses, cars, furniture, tools, etc and moved across the world. The first time with no job lined up, the second time with a job first (because kids, responsibility). There is no greater feeling than having liquidated all assets and having only cash and no other possessions, zero debt of any sort.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:11:44 AM EDT
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I’ve done it twice, sort of. The first time I brought my wife and a duffle of clothes. The second time I brought my wife, two kids, and about eight duffles of clothes. Sold houses, cars, furniture, tools, etc and moved across the world. The first time with no job lined up, the second time with a job first (because kids, responsibility). There is no greater feeling than having liquidated all assets and having only cash, zero debt of any sort. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:13:15 AM EDT
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How long does that great feeling last? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I’ve done it twice, sort of. The first time I brought my wife and a duffle of clothes. The second time I brought my wife, two kids, and about eight duffles of clothes. Sold houses, cars, furniture, tools, etc and moved across the world. The first time with no job lined up, the second time with a job first (because kids, responsibility). There is no greater feeling than having liquidated all assets and having only cash, zero debt of any sort. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:18:18 AM EDT
[#32]
Cool
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:21:06 AM EDT
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He did, if he made it through that winter he probably would've had enough adventure and gone about a normal life, but it didn't work out like that. He didn't kill anyone in the process. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: And then he died in a junk bus in the interior of Alaska. I read the book years ago. Grest book but he was an idiot and he ultimately died because of it. 
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:25:44 AM EDT
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Not hard to understand. There are days (many) that i just want to turn off the noise and get away from it all. Wherever the road takes me...
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:29:51 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:32:03 AM EDT
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The same thought has crossed my mind. More than once Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I can imagine some guy, no real debts, but no close friends or family ties and obligations, and he's working some job he doesn't really hate, but doesn't really like. So he gets out of bed, goes and does his job, comes home, microwaves himself some chicken strips, watches some crap he doesn't care about on TV, goes to sleep, and gets up to do it all again. 
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:33:58 AM EDT
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I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state.
Or in my case, once I'm retired, go walk about with the 5th wheel in tow.. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:35:54 AM EDT
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My cousin was working for the power company for two years after high school. Hated it and was tired of the small town. Saved all of his money for the next year (lived with his dad) and went on a 6 mo trip to Europe. Well... It turned into a 2 year trip around the world. He has seen places I could never dream of. He would use up his money traveling to a new place and getting a hostel somewhere, then get a job and save up until he had enough to go to the next place. He has a YouTube channel too where he documented his entire trip. Just moved back a month or so ago. He is already saving up for his next trip. I've got to admit, it takes some serious balls to go out on your own with no backup plan. I'm proud of him. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:38:47 AM EDT
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I highly recommend "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck. It's a classic long-distance road trip book by a master storyteller. TLDR; Steinbeck has a custom camper built for his pickup truck and he hits the road with his dog, Charley. They are out to see America. He has no set schedule and goes where the winds blows. I really enjoyed that book. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:40:49 AM EDT
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I have a couple of times.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:40:52 AM EDT
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I've done it. Nothing like the feeling of freedom at the start of an adventure like that. Thinking about doing it again, maybe next year. Have a lot of money saved up, but want a little more cushion. Live free or die. I sort of thought this thread was about guys not working for a cushion. Just saying fuck it. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:42:47 AM EDT
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Where would you go first? It always seems like people in the North head South, and those in the South head North. Anywhere but where they're from. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Not all those who wander are lost. My plan.....a truck and cab over camper or maybe a trailer and keep on driving. It always seems like people in the North head South, and those in the South head North. Anywhere but where they're from. I wondered around for a bit. Not too long and not too hard. Sold/donated/gifted everything but my dog, a single action 44 mag, and my truck with some day to day stuff and started over. Spent a LOT of time wandering around the Southwest. National Forests are easy to get lonesome in. Odd jobs, cold weather, and silence. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:43:12 AM EDT
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Made a friend on the back side of his FU moment. Got divorced, rode around on his motorcycle until he ran out of money.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:45:39 AM EDT
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Hit the road in my twenties and bought an island in northern Canada. Built a house, lived there for some years. One summer I packed a canoe and paddled through the Yukon, into the Northwest Territories, and down to the Mackenzie Delta. Poled and lined the canoe up through the Richardson Mountains and paddled into Alaska. Now I live on some nice land in the Bridger Teton in Wyoming. Built the house. You can do this stuff if you have a mind to. Lots of work, but worth it. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:47:03 AM EDT
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I did it, worked as an engineer, made lots of cash in my early/mid 20's then became a renaissance man of sorts, traveling this country, South/Central America and parts of Europe and aside from the occasional female drama I was never stressed or upset with my status in life, I was as close to being truly happy as I have ever been. It's funny, you'd think that after a few years of that life I would never return to the "grind" and chasing the "American Dream" but I did and all for a woman who sucked me into believing in social status and monetary accomplishments again. As expected that ended badly and blew up in my face. Once again I said screw it and this time gave Uncle Sam some time, found my core once more and now I am out and finishing up a graduate degree on my GI Bill and I hope to embark on a new career here later this year.
I plan to hammer out another 10 years and then it's time to sell it all and hit the road with the misses for good.We are already building our travel rig and for now we spend our free time venturing out on weekends in rural areas, I guess you could call it "overlanding" but we just call it adventure travel. Lucky for us a relative is leaving us property to retire to and we will always have that base to come home to and eventually settle down when it comes time to slow the travels. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 2:55:41 AM EDT
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Didn't a Arfcom member travel the country visiting other members with little with him? He may have stayed a day or two or maybe a few hours?
I thought i read that here. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 3:03:54 AM EDT
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I drove an 18 wheeler back a couple decades ago. And I learned something, give me a hot meal, a shower, and a good nights sleep and I'm happy enough. I can imagine some guy, no real debts, but no close friends or family ties and obligations, and he's working some job he doesn't really hate, but doesn't really like. So he gets out of bed, goes and does his job, comes home, microwaves himself some chicken strips, watches some crap he doesn't care about on TV, goes to sleep, and gets up to do it all again. Maybe you try to hang out with old high school friends or people from work, but they all have families. So maybe you hang out in a bar for a bit but you don't really like drinking, or drunks. I live like that except that I do have family obligations and people depending on me to maintain a house. And the truth is those obligations are what makes doing that same thing over and over again tolerable. Without that, what the hell are you really living for? So, yea, I can see someone in that situation figuring that they have enough marketable skills to survive by doing odd jobs. So they just sell everything except the essentials and hit the road for a while. Pure win. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 3:07:38 AM EDT
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I know of several people who have done this. Every single one of them had mental issues, and was being rewarded for it by the government. $3K/month tax free for life.
Being young, healthy, and having a guaranteed income without having to work allows you to do some crazy shit, things that regular guys just can't do. I know guys with the RV fantasy. Here's the thing about RVs: They're ridiculously expensive to maintain, and I swear they're self-destructive. I know of a group who travel 6-9 months out of the year (all .gov retirees, including my in-laws), and every single year, there is at least one new crisis that is anywhere from $5K to $12K to repair. RV fantasy guys have to be well off to travel in those things--if you don't know this and are considering it, please talk to some folks who live that lifestyle. RV resale is shit, and there's a reason for it. You'd honestly be better off in a camper/truck, unless you were already wealthy, had an extensive cushion, or a substantial guaranteed income. I'm not sure that most people are aware how expensive it is to live off grid, as well. It's kinda one of those pick two situations, where the choices are healthy, inexpensive, and sustainable. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 3:17:14 AM EDT
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I have two small kids.
They’re all that keeps me from doing something like that, then probably settling somewhere overseas. |
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Posted: 1/10/2019 3:26:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have two small kids. They’re all that keeps me from doing something like that, then probably settling somewhere overseas. |
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