To consider selling our house and travelling the world with two toddlers?

[travellingwithtoddlers]

DH have been discussing the possibility of doing this for a while. DH is incredibly unhappy with his job at the moment and is considering quitting and having a break to de-stress. I am a SAHM and we have two toddlers aged 1 and 3.5.

We don’t need to sell our house to use the money to travel (we have savings we could use). We are considering selling our house, lots of our possessions and our cars in order to reduce our responsibilities here at home and putting things that we want to keep into storage.

Ideally we would spend some time in SE Asia, Australia, the Middle East and perhaps return home after 12-18 months. We would then look to buy a house again upon our return.

Is this idea great or am I just swept up with the excitement of planning the trip? We can afford to support ourselves for the trip, but it would use all of our savings. We would be returning purely to a deposit for a house (from the sale of our current house) which would be approx 40% of the value of the sort of house we would like to buy (if this makes any difference!).

Also - does anyone have any tips on places to visit?!

In theory, awesome!! And I'm envious, but the kids will barely remember it. We lived in Kenya when DD was 3.....had some amazing experiences.... She remembers nothing.

Travelling: great idea
Selling your house: probably the worst thing you can do.

Just rent it out.

Agree with your sentiment but it does sound as though you need to research places a bit more.

Re language: if they pick up other languages it will actually help them with their development and language acquisition long term= loads of studies evidence this.

The only thing that sounds unwise is you selling the house.

@ChiefEverythingOfficer and now you’re the CEO of a tech company? 🤨

I have enjoyed lots of travelling, but my job allowed me a maximum of a month off at a time.
I have been to some amazing places.

It has not cured my love of travelling ! ! !
I still love to travel

Why don't you go for a month first to Vietnam or Malaysia & try with your children ?

@travellingwithtoddlers I've just found this post and see it was started in April. I'm curious did you go travelling. I really hope you did and hope you are having an amazing time

Its very different travelling for that length of time compared to a 2 or 3 week holiday. It can be hard/stressful for a young toddler to be so rootless, to not have the opportunity to bonding with adults in their wider family/community, and to be moved on from a place just as it starts feeling familiar. Some children will cope with this well, some may find it traumatic and that can have long term effects.

your kids won't remember this at all later on.

Also don't kid yourself - they won't pick up any meaningful amount of a foreign language unless you stay somewhere a while and are properly immersed, for example if they go to a local nursery somewhere for a few months.

Do it but rent your house instead of selling.

We aren’t running from anything; we are just bored of the UK!

Reread your own op