Have you ever considered just taking off?

platypus

platypus

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Akin to the guy who sold his life on ebay.

Have you ever really thought about it? Selling everything or giving it away? Going to a random town and seeing whats what?

Has anyone here ever done it? Was it a success or failure?
 
I'd actually be more interested in finding out if anyone hasn't considered taking off at one point or another.

As for the original question; every day for the past decade.
 
all the time.

If I were single, I'd be tempted to sell everything I own apart from a camera, and just trundle around for a while - I imagine it would be so amazingly liberating!
 
Yea as Nix says - we've all been there once a while. There'll be a peak in the deep dark months of winter and those holiday programmes fire up lol.
 
i was going to do it 2008. sell everything, and "move" to tenerife.

but im still sittin here. :(
 
I've always liked the idea of this, just sell the house and all my posessions buy a big beemer motorbike and take off round the world at no real pace, just drift round and see where the mood takes me.

Lots of people do it, I suppose its all about being brave enough to put it into practice.
 
Absolutely.

Even went house hunting during when we were thinking of staying in the country but not in this area, and another time job hunted when I was thinking of moving to Spain :) It's just something everyone thinks about now and again.
 
uvmain said:
all the time.

If I were single, I'd be tempted to sell everything I own apart from a camera, and just trundle around for a while - I imagine it would be so amazingly cold!
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I guess everyone's considered it at some point but I have a wife and family so it's never going to happen (She'd track me down somehow:D). Even when single, I liked my creature comforts too much.
 
Have conversations like this with the boyfriend fairly often... He's half German, I'm half Swedish, both our families have lived in various countries, had parents who have travelled a lot in their younger years - it'd be a shame not to take off and live in different and interesting places for periods of time.

The hard part is that it's much easier to do when single and untied - but we've basically both said while Bristol's a great place - there's so much more to do and see. A couple of weeks away having holidays here and there don't really seem to cut it. You don't really get to know a place.

The conversation has slowly gone from being a bit wistful at being apart to a possibility of taking off together assuming we're still a couple in a year or two... quite an exciting prospect :)
 
Yep - I'm a chicken though.

The missus would pack up and leave this afternoon if she wasn't with me (and has often threatened to do so anyway!).

I'm far too materlistic to be able to do it though; at least at this stage in my life.
 
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