Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
As for moving and travelling, living in different countries, I could see myself doing it for 2 yrs. And after awhile, it would wear me down. For sure, I'm not into longtime camping, chopping your own wood, wilderness living
Believe me, none of the people I mentioned are chopping their own wood or living in the wilderness! Most are renting very civilized flats and villas with electricity, heat, and indoor plumbing. But all are on a budget as one has to be to travel unless one is very wealthy. Still, there are plenty of budget-friendly accommodations out there that are nice. We also know one couple personally and know of several others who are "professional" house-sitters. They get to stay in houses that are often much nicer and larger than they could afford, while the owners travel.

As for RVing, we are interested in smaller ones, not the ones that scare you (and us!) when cycling on the road. If we do buy one, we won't be doing any wood chopping (we plan to follow warm weather) nor sleeping on the ground as in traditional "camping", but we will be living without a washer-dryer. That is an inconvenience to be sure, but is hopefully more than made up for by the places we'll get to travel to. A lot of RV parks and campgrounds have laundry facilities. We are already used to no dryer as we hang our clothes out here in Mexico and love how nice they smell after drying in the sunshine and breeze.

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There are definitely trade-offs with any lifestyle. I am sure we will not be nomads forever, but for now, we have no real reason to be tied to one place -- we're retired and don't have children, so we might as well travel while we're healthy and able. And one big advantage for us is to be able to stay far away from winter but still visit places that have cold winters in the summer, if we so desire. We have yet to find one single place where we like the weather year-round, so we may always live in at least two places even when we finally do settle down. We met a lot of folks in Belize who were doing just that: six months in the US or Canada, six months in Belize.