There is no mention of how much equity they had in their home.

But a $4,200 a month mortgage payment and student loan debt before you even pay the electric bill must have been pretty tough.

It's just stuff that needs to be dusted and vacuumed for no reason.

Living on the road seems to work for them, though, so good for them to have made the change.

I presume they homeschooling? You need to live somewhere to enroll.

our motorhome they wouldn't negotiate down a penny off their listed price--they said "it's already discounted". They were the only ones who had what we wanted locally, so we still bought it, but I'll always hate their guts. That said, I could happily live in my motorhome, but with all my pets, it gets pretty crowded.

It was stupid to buy such a large home they didn't need.

for a 1,000 sq ft home on 2 acres in Michigan. Paid $134k cash and have never been happier.

This often puzzles my very ordinary middle class mind: most people make a living from paychecks so when I hear about people just taking off - Europe, Africa - this is the first question that comes to mind,

Even making a living from blogs is puzzling for me.

Yes, I am a dinosaur

All she does is take trips and talk about it on YouTube. She has a Patreon account. I went there out of curiosity. She states that she needs $3000 a month to live on. She has Patron donors giving her almost $2500 a month. She gets tens of thousands of views on YouTube so she makes money off that. She's got a wish list of things she wants people to buy for her, and they do.
I was going to look at what she posted on Patreon, I couldn't open any of the content unless I pledged monthly donation to her.

I passed on that. She's not getting a dime of my money.. Looks like good work if you can get it.

I take great comfort in the stability of my little house in the woods, away from highways and people.

My wife's former boss and her husband retired, sold their home and moved into an RV about five years ago. They have spent the whole time traveling the country and apparently having a ball. Different strokes.

who did this. Bought a RV and park it on a son's lot. Sounds great, but another perspective I see is they have no real assets, no savings, and are dependent on others for housing. Still working but pushing 60. A lifetime of working and raising children and there's nothing left for when they get older and need care and help. The woman has MS and the husband has knee and back problems. They get worse? Then what? A dream with nightmares included.

Basically, it's not all it's cracked up to be. The book and movie Nomadland make that clear.

Plus, there's an awful lot of middle ground between a humongous over priced home and living in an RV.

I'd like to see a follow-up story on what they're doing five years from now.

If they're used to a large suburban house with many bedrooms, having five people crammed into an RV won't be fun.

My Dad would state he is buying a Harley, just to push Mom’s buttons.

She got smart quickly, and told him to get a 2 million life insurance policy and feel free to buy the bike. Dad never did get his Harley, and was only disappointed that his gig was up.

I told my husband we are going to sell the house, buy a boat. Made it about as far as Dad did.

Bless reasonable spouses, we need them.

It may seem ok for 8-10 years. But start the maintenance, upgrades, roofs, painting, landscaping. Soon the house owns you, the tax man is in on the capital gains until age 55, the housing market fluctuates, the neighbors can improve or decline, the taxes go up. If I had to do it over again .... I wouldn't stay past 15 years if that long. Styles change, materials change. Keep in something modern. Sounds like the RV folks found a way to avoid all of that, but the article is short on what it's costing them, or how they're living, or where they live. I mean they can't stay on the road forever. The kid has to be in school somewhere.