Long time lurker, new poster, but turns out I've been a Moustacian all my life, and hardly knew there was a name for people like me until about a year ago when a friend mentioned MMM. I remember 12 years back in university pressuring some friends into making a game of who could make the cheapest lunches for a week, so the writing was on the wall.
Anyways I worked petro engineering all over the world for 7.5 years, hated the job, but it paid great, and when I was living/working abroad essentially had all expenses covered. 31 now, had a stache within spitting distance of $1m CAD a year ago, now after all the market fun, is around 750k, which being a single guy with no ties I feel is still plenty (despite the ~200k loss psychologically stinging like acid - It'll go back up? Right? Right!?).
Sold what limited possessions I had, drove back home, sold the car, couple boxes in storage and am planning on using parents house as a home base, since it doesn't really make sense to maintain my own empty apartment. It's been 6 months already, had a few trips, and now the plans are ~2 months to do my dive master in SE Asia, 2 months to do a safari in Africa, and then maybe 6 months living a "normal" life in Australia on the working holiday program. Might do casual work to keep busy and meet people.
The problem is, that like when I had a job I'll continue to be living out of a bag, and wont be able to consider things like friends/relationships/gym memberships/clubs/etc. on a time line of longer than 6 months.
I can certainly see the value in having a home base, but one which is empty half the year while you travel isn't very Moustacian. There is a huge world to see out there, but there is a lot to be said as well for familiar faces/friends/places. How do you reconcile the two?