Our plan is that when either of us says it's time to settle someplace, we'll get a stick home of some sort, meaning condo or house, that is maintenance free. That would allow us to take trips for a month or two at a time, like many of you do. We will settle near at least one of our children, probably whichever still has our grandchildren living with them.
My aunt and uncle fulltimed for roughly six years, until health forced them to stop. They started out keeping their stick home and trying fulltiming. At six months they decided to continue fulltiming and sold the stick home. They could just as easily have decided to keep the house, either empty or rent it out.
So, if one of you would like to fulltime and the other wants to keep the roots, then maybe a compromise is to keep the house but actually fulltime for some period of time (3 months, 6 months, you decide). At the end of the period if either of you wants to go back to the stick home and do trips from there, then that's what you do. If both of you decide to continue fulltiming, then decide to keep the house or sell. Just a suggestion of one way to find out if you like fulltiming and allowing a way to go back to the house. As has already been said, fulltiming is just one of many good lifestyles. Just like trucks, they're all good so choose the one that works best for you. Hmmm, that even suggests a test drive, doesn't it?
