S/O Do you have a vacation home

I live in the Midwest and our family has a vacation home at the beach on the east coast.

We decided we didn’t want to feel like we have to go to the same place all the time for vacation, so our vacation home is on wheels. We love rving!

We don't currently have a vacation home, but used to. Living in Vancouver BC we had a lake cabin about 4 hours northeast.

We moved and the distance increased by at least 90 minutes, plus the wildcard time to make a border crossing. After hanging on for a few years we realized it was no longer a weekend place. We rented it out for another few years and sold it when we moved to CA.

No and I'm not sure it appeals to me because then you need to actually use it, and I don't like going to the same place every time. There are too many places I want to see.

I live in Ontario Canada, and our house is in Central America - none of your options fit me

I live on the west coast and my second home is in the rockies.. idaho. no lakes or beaches involved.

Also in the Midwest and our lake home is about an hour away. It’s a perfect setup really. We can go there for an hour, a day, a weekend, whatever we want or need to do. And if something comes up it’s just as easy to come back home. For example, we usually spend at least a full week there at some point in the summer, but this year during the week we planned to be there our DD had a conflict with a summer volunteer project she had taken on. So we went out on a Friday, came home Tuesday just for the night, she did her half day volunteer gig on Wednesday morning and we went back out Wednesday night until Sunday. We wouldn’t have been able to do that if we were further away.

We know multiple people who have a cabin that’s a 3-5 hour drive, and honestly it’s really not worth it to me then if I have to give up a whole day to driving just to get there and back. The story we’ve always been told was that when DH’s parents were looking for a place, they loaded the kids in the car and started driving. When the kids started to get whiny and annoying, that was the cutoff for how far they were willing to go to get to a place. 🤣

Both of our neighbors there live out of state. One also lives in the Midwest but about a ten hour drive (she comes to the lake for the entire summer, June-Oct) and the other one lives on the west coast and comes out maybe one weekend a month and for a week in the summer.

ETA: For us it’s nice to have the cabin because we have pets we can take with us there. The person who used to house and pet sit for us moved out of the area, and now it is a lot harder to take a regular week long vacation where we leave our pets behind so that is a consideration too.

I used to live in metro Detroit and almost everyone who had a second home had one Up North on or near a lake. Many of them are passed down through generations.

One gets used to that being from the Midwest.

I live in a flyover state and my second home is in the same flyover state.

One of the perks of living in a flyover state is that property is much more affordable than it is in coastal states.

Yep, my family had a vacation home up north. DH and I bought a cottage on a lake.  We ended up moving to the lake house permanently and my parents ended up selling the cabin up north and moving next door to us at the lake.   Our lake house is 1-1/2 hours from Detroit so it was an easy weekend trip and we went there just about every weekend.  

I’m on the “don’t want to be tied to one place for my vacation” bench.

I live on the east coast and my vacation home is in Yosemite National Park.

My family's is in the mountains - there are a lot of people with 2nd homes in the mountains.