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Car insurance was higher, RV was lower. So there was little difference.

It's Official. We're Californians Now.

Do you have to be careful with running hard water in a radiant floor system? I know hard water ruined my AZ neighbor's swamp cooler. On another note, I'm looking into installing a DITRA electric floor heating system in part of our manufactured home.

On that note, let's talk about erectile dysfunction or incontinence. Issues that probably affect more aging full time RVers than packing iron.

The first link was a tad bit hyperbolic. Try this local CO news piece.

We recently sold our park model of 6 years. Loved it. However, we found that what's more important than the park model itself is WHERE you put it. Ours was on BLM land leased by a private campground who was free to raise rates whenever it wanted. And they did that a lot. That's why we left. Instead we bought a manufactured home in a resident-owned RV park which I think is far better choice than a private park as it's in the resident's interest to keep rent low. Anyway, I suggest getting a park model with a loft. It can serve as additional storage space as park models have limited storage, typically the "basement" under an attached porch. Good luck.

If you will be on Medicare in 2022, then ignore the rest of my post. However, if you will be under 65 in 2022 and you have to buy your own individual health insurance, then read on. First, full timers need a nationwide health plan, typically a PPO plan. These type of plans are difficult to find. For example, currently, nationwide ACA plans are only available in AK, AL, AR, CA, FL, ND, and WY. I saw that you live in Brentwood, CA and used HealthSherpa to look up what ACA health insurance is currently available in your area . . . Kaiser has a number of health plans, but there are all HMOs which I think do not have nationwide networks. On the other hand, Blue Shield of CA has PPO health plans which I believe have nationwide networks. For ACA health plans, what matters is where you actually reside, not necessarily your domicile. For example, if you get a CA health plan, but never spend time in CA, good luck. How do you know this?

Right, there's no panic in AZ. You forgot to mention the failed beer hall putsch. OP, in 2019 we did a 5,000 mile West Coast trip over 5.5 months. Like others, we aren't fans of big distances in short times.

The standard joke is that fusion is always 30 years away. One of the first PBS NOVA episodes I watched was called "Fusion: The Energy Promise". The episode really sparked my interest and raised my hopes. That was in 1974. I've been following fusion developments since then from SHIVA to ITER with cold fusion somewhere in between, and I've also tried to keep up with fusion issues as well. However, I used to think I would see workable fusion power in my lifetime, but I don't think that's going to happen . . . but then again, if we can get quantum computers going, who knows?

The thread title is "COBRA health insurance . . ."

Since under 65 health insurance is likely to be your biggest expense, why risk losing a nationwide plan by changing domicile? You can do that after 18 months when your COBRA runs out.

The pot calling the kettle black.

Daebak

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I don’t know of anyone who has been in a plane crash. Therefore, I guess plane crashes aren’t real.

Yawn

Seriously?

Yep, definitely a reason for being skeptical -- or at least waiting a while to see what happens . . . and for most (all?) of us on the forum, it may be months before we even have the option of getting the vaccine. From what I've read, the "right" combination of events came together for the COVID-19 vaccine -- first, we had learned a lot from the COVID-19 "cousins" SARS and MERS outbreaks, the Chinese sequenced and made public the COVID-19 genome early in the game, "cut and paste" gene editing was recently made possible with CRISPR, researchers didn't follow the traditional vaccine development strategy, and finally lots and lots of money.

Here's the AZ excerpt from a Washington Post state-by-state vaccine summary:

Health insurance?

For sure. I commuted from Green Bay to Manitowoc every day. About 40 miles. My last winter in 2012 before full timing was a nightmare. One dark winter morning during a snow storm a pickup truck passed me and then barrel rolled in front of me and into the grass median. I used to judge the severity of a snow by how many semis were in the ditch. Lovely. So CA high prices, traffic, etc ain't scheiss to a WI winter. Everyone from the MidWest knows that. And, like TwoTwos says repeatedly -- I also came to CA for the politics.

Well, $439 is the top rate unless you want the flexibility of changing dates . . . then it's $571. I think there're going to very successful.

We took a Sunday drive in our backyard. Took some photos of AutoCamp (a "glamping" campground that bought out the old KOA). You may not like it, but I can see the appeal.

LHC is over 50k and plenty of chemtrails believers there.

Amen, hence one of our main reasons for moving. AZ thinking was summed up for me in a Lake Havasu City letter to the editor about using car turn indicators . . . the writer said he doesn't use turn signals because it's no one's business which way he's turning.