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muckbootdiva · RV-Dreams Community Member

New to the site -- need answers from the experts!

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

Hi,

I have absolutely no experience here, so please forgive me if my answer is too simplistic.

Since it doesn't appear that you will be traveling in the RV, have you looked into trailer parks or mobile home communities in which you can purchase a residential unit or perhaps park on a long term basis?

Good luck getting through all the paperwork!

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

Texas.....arizona......new mexico for starters!!! or seasonal boondocking

I also am chasing the disability nightmare......I found that having a law firm do it for you will save alot of headaches....Social Security is alot like the IRS. They have the perfect method to extract your money from you ......a million promises to you......and a million hoops to jump thru if you think your going to get it back......for everything they tell you ,they have 50 clauses why they dont have to and some kind of test or form to fill out to make you go away!

I am in the same basic situation as you....I have been staying in the Northeast just for the available selection of the best medical facilities in the country

Dartmouth Hitch****
Lahey Clinic
Mass General hospital
Catholic medical Center
Portmouth regional

there all here in a 100 mile radius each one having access to doctors from all over the world that are the best in there fields!!
it also gives me travel room to be in 15 different states in a short travel time. with lots of boondocking available

muckbootdiva · RV-Dreams Community Member

Hi,

I want to be able to move if I can't physically hack it. I could do the cookie cutter RV "town" kind of thing -- but I like doing things artistically and a bit more interesting. So 20 acres in Terlingua sounds more interesting if my husband and I can keep up with it. If we can't --- then I want to be able to make the second choices: Join an RV community with LOW fees, or buy my own 5 acre lot in a much more accessible area if I can do that. That is the big question -- is there a place I can do that.

Thanks

M

muckbootdiva · RV-Dreams Community Member

Mike,

Where do you live now? We are moving to Terlingua Tx in a year or so. The land is cheap and the people are more use to people like us who want to make a go of it in an RV, Yurt, or whatever you want to try. If you buy 20 acres or more there are NO restrictions.

I am looking for a back up plan -- another place with NO building restrictions if I put up an RV closer to town on say 5 Acres.

As for Disability, I have so many hospital and Dr records plus all of my Dr's will back me and I am living on nothing so I can keep up on my appointments to get disability. I have NO ins. So I NEED disability Ins and $$. I have three operations I can't do until I get the Ins. It stinks. And I am 50. By this age they should not be as picky and allow us a smaller waiting period.

No one will hire us if we really have disabilities and they know that. They are only preventing us from getting food, meds and medical help. It is sick. So we are forced to live in RV's and Tents.

muckbootdiva · RV-Dreams Community Member

Mike -- PS -- Texas, Az and NM is clear across the usa from my kids. It is so sad that we must have to go to these lengths to live. I need clean air, warm weather, and peace. There is no where I can do this in the east that applies.

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

Not without boondocking......and it is limited as to where that is available.........as someone else mentioned , you would have to find a 4 season park to reside in or a mobile home park that accepts RV's

I notice your in New york .....why not summers in the Adirondacks.....winters in Va. or the Carolina's.......simple 14 hr drive

I stay in NH and maine during the warm weather and love to hide in southwestern Va. during the winter months....doctors are always close enough that I dont have to change them.

muckbootdiva · RV-Dreams Community Member

Mike we have 30 acres in NYS. 8 months of 2 feet of snow every day and about 10 degrees or less -- and that is a good 8 months. It can be far worse. The other 4 months are mud, rain and 2 beautiful sunny green months no one would ever want to give up! My body can't take the 8 months of horror. At this point warmer climate that is arid seems to be the best solution.

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Mary,

Welcome to the RV Dreams forums. Your questions are different from what most ask, so you will likely get all kinds of different answers. But, feel free to ask any questions that come to mind. The folks here are very helpful and friendly.

I would like to address your comment about buying an acreage on which to live. In some cases, local zoning laws may affect one's ability to use their land as they would like to, kind of like a home owners association, but the zoning laws are maintained and enforced by the local government.

On another take with the issue of an acreage is that it can require a lot of work. Jo and I used to live on 5 acres that even had a pond. While it was a beautiful place with a lot of trees and the pond, it took a lot of work to keep it maintained. We used a regular lawn tractor instead of a zero-turn mower, so it took at least 8 hours a week to just keep it mowed. If one didn't spend 2 hours per night during the week, the whole day on Saturday was spent on the tractor doing the mowing.

Having the pond, the dam was too steep to use any kind of lawn mower or lawn tractor, so I had to mow the sides of the dam by using a powered string trimmer. I can guarantee anyone that it was awfully hard on one's ankles, not to mention slow and time consuming.

Good luck with your research.

Terry