You got your lender to stop your mortgage payments while you were away
Yes, after we paid it off for they stopped asking us for monthly payments
If you pay rent or a mortgage it would be difficult to reduce expenses with long term stays in lower cost areas such as SE Asia as we found we were able to do.
I have one question though for those that spend a lot of time living in different areas. When you are at one, do you miss the other? I was enjoying our summer so much in San Diego, that it was difficult to think about spending so much time away. Then we left for 3 months for our home in SE Asia.
But after I got into life there I didn't want to come home. After our three months were up, I really wasn't ready to leave. I had started making new friends, and found places we liked to go, things we enjoyed doing. We were just getting started, and then we had to come home.
But then after being home again, I got into things here, enjoying the summer, spending time doing the things we enjoy here, seeing friends and family, which I will miss when we leave again.
But I want to go, I love the experiences of travel, I love it when I am traveling. Am I weird? I want to be TWO places at once!
I am like a very young kid I saw who ate their first hot wing. They took a bite and then cried. Then took another bite and cried again. They could neither stop crying nor stop eating the spicy hot wings.
That is how I feel sometimes.