You’re welcome ! Do take my suggestions with a grain of salt, I experience home sickness often whilst traveling and I always think it’s silly because when I come back home it takes me exactly 3 weeks to start planning another trip away from home lol. Hope it all works out for you though, I’m all for people leaving their home I think it allows for the kind of personal growth you don’t get at home.

I’m backpacking a few places in Europe currently. I’ve got nothing but a backpack, 3 outfits and a change of shoes with my work stuff it’s very rewarding and I’m the same type of overthinker ! I’ve got most things planned out but I am taking some things as they come because you can’t plan every second of Europe, it’s not possible. I haven’t even booked transportation to some of the countries yet lol because trains over here are east to book a few days prior or day of. It’s a lot less stressful thank you think I promise…though I think maybe you ought to start with a month or few instead of a year.

That’s so good to know I’ve driven through rural Vermont twice in the recent years and I hadn’t paid enough attention to the layout of things mostly because I was mesmerized by the beauty of this state ! Maine and Vermont are two places I’d love to live permanently one day.

Agreed. This is the only reason making me think twice about getting rid of mine, car rental companies can go to hell.

I’m debating on selling my car for all the reasons you listed minus that nasty car accident…I’m sorry you had to experience that ! I currently live in the states but I’m in and out of the country or my home state every month and sometimes every other week so honestly owning a car for me is a tad useless and expensive. I’m wondering if investing in a scooter or a mini bike isn’t a better way for me to get around the cost issue and simultaneously the hatred for driving. I’m not sure if this is something you’d enjoy as this is still a stressful activity but it’s an option especially in the US. It provides the option of grocery shopping (granted not Costco trips) but for a single person it’s perfect. My partner and I go grocery shopping for us on his motorcycle all the time, we’ve got big enough bags for everything we need for like a week or two and we like to go shopping weekly (doesn’t matter for us price wise because we shop at the army base commissary so we save a lot of money already) anyway, just food for thought, there are walkable cities in the US by the way, many larger cities in New England, anything down to Virginia, Savannah Georgia is very walkable, I don’t know much about the Midwest but I know that Chicago is a walking friendly city for example. I hope you are able to figure it out ! I’m a European living in the states with my citizenship now and I’ll just tell you now, living in different countries is great and all but depending on the field you’re in, I’d suggest you keep your retirement in one country, it gets tricky (expensive) when you start working for foreign companies in different countries. Hope this helps !