We have been fulltiming for about a year now. I still work fulltime. We are presently set up on one of two full hookup sites that I built on our 7 acre farm here in middle TN. We plan on keeping TN as our home of record and will have the site here available whenever we desire. Daughter and her family took over the house so the farm will stay in the family. Tossing around the idea of retiring next Mar. Our situation has worked out well for us in that we've had time to get accustomed to fulltiming before hitting the road. Living here in middle TN has also showed us that we can live in cooler climates if desired. We've really enjoyed our first year and are looking forward to many more.
"BIG BOB" & DIANE:
Big Mac & Sarah (Retired Greyhounds)
2005 Prowler Regal AX6 365BSQS
2005 F-350 Lariat Crew Cab 4x4, DRW, 8'bed, 6.0 P/S Diesel,
Veterans, the reason we will always be "FOREVER FREE".
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We've been full-timing for about three months now. Our youngest of four graduated from high-school, and we no longer needed 6000 sq. ft. of house and everything that went with it.
I'm too young to retire (and I have three kids in college simultaneously), and work full-time for a small company as part of the management team.
We radically down-sized from the "big house", a virtual prison to the freedom of a 40' TT we've parked in a place we really like in the Austin metro area.
Both of us enjoy the small, cozy space - I call it the "Command Module", while she calls it the 'Love Boat".
I get up every day, having traded in a six minute commute for one that ranges from 40 minutes to an hour or so and head to work. I put my twelve hours in, looking forward minute-by-minute to the exodus back out of the city to our tiny paradise in the hills.
We've taken a few short trips even in the time we've been free. We'll take (hopefully) many more and get to see the country as time passes. Even in the worst case, we can still hitch up and drive to another park in the vicinity for a change of venue before I'm really ready to retire.
No more lawn to mow, no landscape to care for, no $1000/month electric bill, no more property tax, no more painting, vacuum cleaner to run over acres of carpet, no huge house payment to make. Now we live almost free and clear, having cut our living expenses by 80%...
This is the best thing we've done in the nearly 30 years we've been married... loving full-timing, while still working a full-time job :-)
I work a fulltime job while living fulltime in my RV. Wanted for many years to go fulltime but still too much debt to give up a fulltime job. But rather than wait to do it until the bills were paid off, just decided to do it anyway and keeping working a job as well. It worked for me. In 4 years when I do plan to retire, I will have the debt paid off(including the RV), and now have the experience of RV living/maintenance which is invaluable. Something that just can not be learned through reading books and blogs. IMHO life is too short to wait. I am enjoying my dream now(at least partially) and looking forward to and planning the continuance of this dream further when I no longer have to work in the ratrace. Living in RV fulltime and working a fulltime job...no problem at all. Sense of freedom and liberation from a stick house...priceless!!
Ken
Ken
Fulltimer presently living and working in San Diego
1998 Fleetwood Discovery
2001 Nissan Sentra in tow
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