Ultimate Life Goal

27 May 2011 1 Comment

by Nikkiin life Tags: ,

In the future, if I ever manage to make enough money off of comics, writing and web development, I plan on selling my house, buying a motorhome and living in Wal-Mart parking lots across North America. Cuz why stay in one place when you can spend your life travelling?

I’ve got this all planned – motorhomes are super cheap when compared to houses in Regina (and, surely, houses everywhere) and undoubtedly there’s some sorta rack thing I can put on the back so that I can have a motorcycle for exploring cities. AND, in the futures, there will presumably be either really awesome satellite internet or cell phone data plans will be affordable. Cuz I’d need two phones (or two sim cards) if I’m just going to wander throughout Canada and the US. The only problem I haven’t solved is where I can ship stuff off of Amazon to. But, then again, I can’t have a lot of stuff in a motorhome and I don’t want to weigh it down either – a tank of gas on those things must be ridiculous.

I’d do the same thing in Europe, but it’s slightly more difficult in that I dooon’t think they let Canadians just drift about aimlessly country to country.

Aaand I just realised that this is actually a fairly odd life plan. My friends, when talking about the future, are all husband, house, kids, mortgage, pets. Me? I assume that my mortgage is paid off, that I don’t have any sort of SO and certainly never any kids. Pets, though, pets I’ll have. But not in my motorhome. That’d be cruel.

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  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    What I really want, and see as my current ultimate measure of success as an artist, is to have a studio where other artists want to hang out and create at. I see it as this whole thing with some kind of cafe/sandwich shop attached, with cool art from all the artists who had been there.  Its a kinda douche-y plan on paper really, but I think I want it earnestly enough that in practice it wouldn’t feel douche-y. I’ll also see myself as successful when I’m rich enough to support other artists as full time artists who do their own thing.  I wanna be an old school patron of the arts!

    The real cost of motor homes from what I understand is the tires that need to be changed frequently and are expensive. My Aunt who lives in California has one, so she can go vacation anywhere she wants to. Its obviously still cheap compared to a house, provided you can move with the temperatures. I wouldn’t mind being a renter for life if it meant I could live in walking distance of having things to do though. I still don’t see how owning a house saves money, seems like everyone still is paying rent to a bank except you are the one on the hook for repairs.  I guess if you live in one place long enough you own it but I don’t want to be that stationary. Owning a house would be a death sentence for me, I would never leave it and would stay there forever.  I would become the hermit I’m fighting hard to not become.

    Your life plan is better than most people’s, because most people just do the whole house, kids, marriage thing because that’s whats expected of them.  They go through their entire life without figuring out what they truly want for themselves. They just do all this shit and then reach retirement and are lost. Its sad.