Had thought of this too. The lady I was seeing was all about doing that, but you have GOT to have a home base. I would absolutely love to travel the US and do plan on doing that, but you have to have somewhere to come home to and get your mail.

I have an old Air Force buddy that does that. He and his wife sold their home and got a big old motor-coach. They mainly stay at the RV parks on military bases, going around visiting old AF Buddies and chasing the sun. They still go back to what they call their home area in Washington State every summer where they park in a Golf Course RV park where he works at the course driving the mowers and the range ball pickup tractor. Most mail/bills can be done electronically these days.

I got grown children. one lives in Puyallup Washington. the other in east Texas. I figure we can bounce between them spots for home base. Would tow a small vehicle or HD for short trips.

don't count on it... the circle of doom is spreading out. The liberal clan is taking over the burbs, pushing city folk out....housing going up every where, driving property taxes up. My 2006 $210,000 house and 15 acres, is now taxed @ #345,000

Traffic is better, internet speed can be a problem if you like to stream movies. Choices while eating out limited, we have both become much better cooks since retiring.

Doing what you want to go when you wake up each and every day is priceless.

Today I put up a wood duck house close to the edge of the lake. Eat some lunch after while and watch a movie this afternoon. Winds blowing too hard to fish and the lakes muddy from all the rain.


It’s a tough life!

We bailed out of "The Valley" or better know as "El Valle" back in 2001, basically to get the kids out of those, already thug infested, schools. Living in the West Texas boonies as a few down sides, but nothing compared to the hassel of living anywhere near a city.

Not retired but did move from DFW to Amarillo once Covid hit and one thing my wife and I noticed right away is how much lower our grocery bill is. $300 for a basket full in Southlake vs $150 here. That alone really sticks out to me.

I moved to the country Cedar Hill.
Wasnt even a grocery store here.
Had to drive out of town to shop. BUT THEN
Everybody just had to move here.
Now theres 50 to 60 thousand in town and surrounding areas.
You have to move north of Sanger to even find country anymore

Wife and I made the move from the metromess to lakefront on Toledo Bend just over 3 years ago. Best move of our lifetime! I retired so I could work on fixing things up (it was definitely a fixer upper ) she just retired at the beginning of the year. Sitting in our screened in porch in the morning watching the Eagles and all the rest of the wildlife, trying to decide what to do for the day. We call it Heaven. What I learned is if your gonna buy a fixer upper and do the work yourself, be ready for some pain. I spent over 40 years in the fiberglass business and obviously that wasn't physical work because since we moved hear I've had back,knee and hernia operations. I also need both shoulders worked on but that would stop me from fishing, so that's not happening.
Absolutely the best move we've ever made and would do it again in a heartbeat!!!!

Some of you all have some great places. We don't live in the Big City, but in our opinion, anything within an hour or so from the Big City is still the big City. We are several miles west of Wimberley and it's still a nice little town, but not where we want to be in 15 years at retirement. We still own the fishing cabin in Rockport but not sure that's our retirement spot either (Wind Storm and Flood Insurance! We lived on Padre Island for 7 years). I really enjoying reading about some of the east Texas places, the area intrigues us. We thought about North West Arkansas, but we spent a week on Beaver Lake and drove around the lake and Eureka Springs and rented a boat and toured the entire lake. That area is not for us either. Guess we need to explore east Texas more.