6pm Cowboy
Free Member
Hi all. Bit of a serious post this time.
I am debating with myself about the possibilities and feasability of more or less full timing for a few years when we get our motorhome. Deciding whether or not to do this may affect our choice of MH so I need to make a decision sometime soon.
Retirement is coming up and I am not particularly looking forward to being confined to one place and spending all my time looking after the house/garden and its needs. I have only owned a house for the last 12 years ( tied accomodation before then ) and although it was a sort of lifetime dream I cannot say I am over enamoured with the hassle of it all. ( I may sell the house or rent it out, that is another decision for another time )
I hope to ask all sorts of different questions in the thread ( as they occur to me ) and hope it will be interesting and informative to others in our position.
Neither of us are as fit as we might be ( must do something about that ) and neither of us fair well in the cold and damp ( or extreme heat for that matter ) so my main thoughts are that we might spend most of the summer wilding here or hereabouts and move further south ( probably on a campsite ) for the winter.
So, first off........ I am thinking about the economics of it all. A decent MH costs a fair bit but then I assume there would be other 'lost' expenses that may offset it to some degree. ie, I guess we wouldn't be paying council tax.
What other savings are we likely to make that I could factor into the equation ?
I am debating with myself about the possibilities and feasability of more or less full timing for a few years when we get our motorhome. Deciding whether or not to do this may affect our choice of MH so I need to make a decision sometime soon.
Retirement is coming up and I am not particularly looking forward to being confined to one place and spending all my time looking after the house/garden and its needs. I have only owned a house for the last 12 years ( tied accomodation before then ) and although it was a sort of lifetime dream I cannot say I am over enamoured with the hassle of it all. ( I may sell the house or rent it out, that is another decision for another time )
I hope to ask all sorts of different questions in the thread ( as they occur to me ) and hope it will be interesting and informative to others in our position.
Neither of us are as fit as we might be ( must do something about that ) and neither of us fair well in the cold and damp ( or extreme heat for that matter ) so my main thoughts are that we might spend most of the summer wilding here or hereabouts and move further south ( probably on a campsite ) for the winter.
So, first off........ I am thinking about the economics of it all. A decent MH costs a fair bit but then I assume there would be other 'lost' expenses that may offset it to some degree. ie, I guess we wouldn't be paying council tax.
What other savings are we likely to make that I could factor into the equation ?