My dream is have a permanent, full-time, work-from-home job and live in a huge, old, gorgeous Victorian house in Essex, MA. A dream I've had since I was a kid.

Gregory -

My parents have been living the full-time RV life for the past 6 years, ever since they retired and sold their homes and nearly everything in them...
...their Dutchstar isn't nearly as fabulous as the GMC pictured above - but it is far roomier, gets better mileage on diesel and it's also green (so is the Saturn they tow behind them)

My dream life?

I'd like to live like Beatrice Mueller who took up permanent residence aboard QE2 for the past dozen years or so - going wherever the ship goes and only visiting home and family when the ship goes in for it's bi-annual drydock.

Small house and garden in Ithaca NY for the summer, small house in Santa Fe for the winter. Trips wherever and whenever....

Small bungalow on a couple acres, off-grid with solar panels and a compost toilet and organic vegetable garden and orchard and a few chickens. Not "crunchy hippie granola" looking though. Just a cottage with a garden that looks very white-picket-fence from the street.

Off the grid, working farm. Able to produce enough food for me and my darling. Someday...

My folks lived your RV dream during the winter (mainly stationed in Florida, but that was their interpretation of The Good Life) until Moom died. Then Dad had a $150K anchor on his hands. He lost a lot of money on that deal!

My fantasy is a nice, comfortable life in a house small enough to maintain without huge amounts of work, yet big enough to have the amenities I want, including (finally) a dedicated home art studio and a small Japanese courtyard garden. But since I just moved to a new colonial withOUT a studio, and I can never ever retire due to the sad state of my retirement funds, that will only ever be a fantasy.

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http://www.usatoday.com/travel/cruises/item.aspx?ak=51075048.blog&type=blog

I went to the Nethercutt Collection Car Museum in Sylmar and they have a 1937 Pierce Arrow Travelodge Trailer that I would love to have. It has an aluminum skin over a steel frame and the interior was birch and gum wood with a dining area, ice box, gas cook stove, wood heating stove, water tank and a sleeping arrangement. It looked like the interior of a classic yacht and no plastic in site!

As far as a place to live I already live 2 blocks from the beach in Southern California and I love it. I can actually see the ocean from 1 window and that makes me happy.

Hmmm, crazy lifestyle huh?

I'd buy a homebase in a quaint college town with a scenic downtown, or maybe 15 miles away in a little more rural of a setting.

Then I'd take a couple of years and drive around the world in a Unicat- the only RV that could handle a trek like that. Even after the trip I'd keep it because it's just too cool.

http://www.unicat.net/en/pics/EX70HDQ-MANTGA6x6-2.html

Then I'd look to purchase a huge yacht to just take me wherever I want to go.

I plan to retire in a RV one day so I can travel.....but I doubt I'll do it with a lime green decor. This color would only be fun for a shorter vacation.

I would love - LOVE - to telecommute to work (I work in DC) via the front porch of a small beach cottage within a block of the boardwalk of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (My even wilder lifestyle dream would be to telecommute from a home abroad or in Sausalito overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.)

And on the weekends, operate my own restaurant.

I find myself thinking about this more and more and more. I just turned 40 this year. Wondering if I'm bound for a mid-life crisis.

I must say that interior is sweet!

Upon returning to my senses, though, I have to admit that living my golden years in a Winnebago would be hell on wheels for me. Rolling out the astroturf, grilling with the "neighbors" at the RV park, three-point turns... Nope, not the life for me.

But the freedom to do whatever strikes my fancy in retirement that you speak of is a dream I can get fully behind!

Oh my god! I remember these ads -- they used to have these spreads in House Beautiful circa 1971. Used to love to go through old design magazines when I was little... and these motorhomes were soooooo cool! I dreamed of having one just like this!

Summer only tree house in the woods around Mt Washington, NH. But it will never happen which is what makes it a dream lifestyle....

I would love to sell my house, and get an RV and travel around the U.S. in it with my husband for a while.

Off the grid, with chickens, bees, orchard, huge garden, maybe a goat? But I don't think that's a hopeless fantasy.

The tree-house as summer home. That one is unlikely, but deeply appealing.

I once saw an old town library for sale (and for a very reasonable price, I might add). I would love to convert a small library to a home, leaving lots of shelves intact and all the glorious woodwork.

Live in another country for a few years and really learn the language.

a villa on the Amalfi Coast of Italy! i better win the lottery Saturday night!

I'm lucky enough to have a great work-from-home job right now, but I'd love to buy a sailboat and just sail to tropical places all the time!

My dream is to have two homes and split my time between them:

My ideal primary home would be a detached house in a quiet neighborhood, within one mile of the beach, with hardwood floors, a closet the size of an office, and a real garage. I'd live there from mid-October to mid-April.

My other place would be a little pied 'a terre in Paris, and I'd spend mid-April to mid-October there. That way I'd escape both the chilly Paris winters and the sweltering California summers :)

i love the green!

My beau and I long for a Scamp:
http://www.scamptrailers.com/
The tiny version of the green dream above. :^)