Nor are people on the road “full timing” anything new. My wife and I sold our home and hit the road for 4 nice years. When we wanted to move we did, but we tried to stay in one locale for at least two weeks in order to get a discount on the camping space. We knew folks who volunteered and worked along the way, but we did not have to. (Our next egg was growing in the market. And when it crashed, we held on until it recovered. The Trump market is something to behold. )
However, we sold the RV when we decided to settle back into a retirement community. The time on the road was a wonderful memory with many locations and friends. Not something I regret at all.
If it was the only way to make ends meet, I would accept this too, but like others have already posted, there are good and bad decisions, and even living out of an RV takes a little money. There were people in the parks who did odd jobs for the park to defray some expenses. I believe they were not unhappy to do this.
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You were fortunate that you didn’t have any $10,000 breakdowns.
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