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I'm thinking this might not be news if it was a old fat dude. (fixed typo)
Very true as I am currently doing this without the inherited money. Just working a remote job traveling in my RV around the same age. Lol
See that's what I want to do. What's your job?
I work in IT. There are a lot of people that work in medical, think traveling nurses.
We did this for the better part of five years. It is a bit more work on the days where you got to move the trailer. But I don't think I would have traded those experiences for any amount of comfort.
Now we just live in the forest...
This is our goal in the next year or two. Buy land, park the RV and try my hand at building my own home. Since buying one is out of reach. To many McMansions and very few to zero starter homes (1,100 to 1,500sqft).
That is essentially our story. 10 years chasing ever-increasing down payments, fighting people to be the first to an open house to offer over asking...
We got here to our piece of forest with just enough space to park our 5th wheel cleared, then slowly went from carrying buckets of water up from the creek to boil and use for cleaning and a little DIY battery pack, to now having a well and grid power.
I think by end of next year we will have achieved comfort parity from when we lived in the city. But with infinitely more freedom and attachment to the nature around us.
fingers crossed...
Yeah, the weirdest part of this news story to me is that it is a news story. What they are describing is basically just.... life... For about half of my friends. It is completely unremarkable, and is simply part of the straightforward parts of day to day life.
It's like if the news said "local man makes pasta for dinner - says it is both cheaper and tastier than McD's!!!"
It's quite hard to stay fat when travelling.