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If you chose to be a nomad in a motorcoach for 2 years, what would be your address?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) July 23rd, 2011

Say you got a wild bug up your butt and sold your home and purchased a motorcoach that you could live comfortable in, and took to the road to drive where the wind or whims took you. If you had an account with a national bank chain, and a job or work where you can take it with you and did not have to be office bound, what or where would your address be, if you were on the road for 24 to 30 months? How would you get any snail mail? Does that mean your phone would be forever “roaming”?

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Cruiser's avatar

Each week I would park in front of a different Jellies house!

FutureMemory's avatar

You would probably want to arrange for a friend to collect your mail for you. What they could then do is send you a monthly care package to whatever city you know you’ll be in, marked “General Delivery” which means it’s held at that local post office. You then simply go there to claim it. Something like that, anyway.

jca's avatar

I saw a show about some people who did this (it was a documentary) and they rented a PO box and they would stop there from time to time and get their mail. I think they were an older couple who had been doing this for years and they drove all around the country.. I don’t remember if they were a same sex couple but for some reason I think they might have been.

marinelife's avatar

Whatever mail forwarding service I choose.

jrpowell's avatar

A PO Box and a trusted friend Then have them ship stuff General Delivery.

edit :: or what FM said.

jaytkay's avatar

There are services which give you an address and scan all the mail for you to access online.

Supacase's avatar

I have a friend who works on a cruise ship for months at a time. She lives in Wisconsin, so even when she is able to disembark for a few days, she doesn’t go home. She set all of her bills up to be paid online and has her mail forwarded to a family member she trusts. They email her if they see anything that looks important and she usually tells them to open it and see.

YARNLADY's avatar

The majority of our snail mail is advertising, so we already have it sent to a P O Box. We would probably hire one of our grandsons to pick it up once a week, and scan any important things into the computer.

Nearly all our communications are done online. We pay all our bills online, and do most of our banking and other transactions online as well.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@Supacase @YARNLADY If you no longer have a physical address, IE no brick and mortar house anymore all your bills will be upkeep and fuel for the motorcoach so no need for automatic bank set up, or at least not for utilities, mortgage, garbage, etc.

jaytkay's avatar

What address would be on your driver’s license? If you no longer have a physical home in the state where it’s issued, is the license still valid?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@jaytkay Another very good question…...ummmmmmmm…....

YARNLADY's avatar

@jaytkay The address on my driver’s license has been my P O Box ever since I moved here, 20 years ago.
@Hypocrisy_Central Our credit charges include my medications; various expenses related to our rental home; house, auto, life and health insurance; food and clothing; animal expenses; and all the charges related to the computer access. None of this would change.

Also, my husband is the payee of record for two elderly recipients of government benefits, and that would not change. He issues various prepaid debit cards for their personal expenses, and pays all their housing, medical and transportation expenses out of their benefit payments.

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