Hubs and I did several three month, six month and one ten month trip. For the latter we gave up our apartment and stored our stuff, ( we were much younger then, it wasn’t that hard really, travelled to SEAsia, then Nepal and through India to Kashmir!) As we got older we settled into 2-3 months journeys. Our last was the year before Covid hit.
I once went on holiday for less than a week, and halfway through all I was thinking was I wish I was home. Not that it was an unpleasant trip or location, quite the opposite it was genuinely nice and relaxing. But it was that trip that made me realise I don’t really like going away to places, and so I have never taken another break like it since. That was 20 years ago.
Depends on the season. We have a yard, and it needs attention from April-October. End of October, we could walk out the door and come back at the beginning of April, and the only thing we need to worry about is two house plants and meds. All bills are paid electronically (the last one just got switched over). There are a number of cities I wouldn’t mind living in for 3-6 months, given the chance.
So far the longest is 6 weeks, and that was in summer, so we had neighbors taking care of the house plants and watering the yard. Because we had scaffolding in the yard, it wasn’t possible to mow the lawn anyway, so no worries about that.
We do 3 week trips fairly often. And we take care of neighbor plants and mail, so we have a good arrangement.
IIRC, our record is 73 days in one stretch. That year we returned home for a week and left for another 30 days. But we mostly limit to about a month. We’re RV-ers, and despite the comfort of our rig, after a month we’re ready for more space and a fenced yard for the dog(s). We’ll be a bit over the limit this year since we’re headed to Glacier but still try to follow the RV Rule-of-Twos*.
We have an arrangement with 3 neighbors who do similar trips, so we all let our mail continue and watch each other’s houses in turn. If any mail looks important we text a pic, and forward if needed. We turn off all water and lock up our houses, no sitters needed.
*Max 200 miles per day, off the road by 2pm, stay 2 days at every other stop (no more than 2 days of back-to-back travel)
For me it pretty much boils down to “How long do I WANT to leave my home for.” If there were anywhere we really wanted to be other than our home (personally, I’d shoot myself before being on an extended cruise!), I’d figure out how to deal with the health/house/dog/whatever care. But we recently returned from a 10 day trip and I’m not sure either of us wanted to be travelling/away from home longer than that.
I guess we like our comfort and predictability.
That’s us too.
Even after spending only three or four days at my in-laws place I am really, really glad to get home. And I like my in-laws a lot and have a great time there.
In my 20s, I took a job in Siberia for a couple of years, but that just meant getting out of my lease and using the job as an excuse to get out of a toxic relationship.
Two weeks is the longest vacation we ever took. We were traveling to Europe, and saw France and Germany. By the end of that time, we were very ready to be back in our own home.
Here’s an unasked-for traveling tip: starting a couple of weeks before the trip, remember not to order anything online that may arrive while you’re gone. Amazon is good about telling you during the ordering process when your package is expected to arrive, but other companies ship slower and you won’t know the expected arrival date until after you place the order. If you have trusted neighbors or relatives they can check your porch for packages while you’re gone, but it’s easier to just put off ordering anything until you return.
I used to feel that way when we went to Ocala to visit my husband’s parents. Add the 800 mile drive between us and them…
Even when we moved them near us, I could only take so much of hearing the same stories over and over. But they’ve since died - both were in their 90s. No more distant relatives to visit.
Visiting relatives is a separate issue for me - I am very happy that most of my family and my husband’s family lives within a one hour drive. It means that I almost never have to spend more than an afternoon or evening with any of them. The one brother-in-law who lives 8 hours away - we don’t actually visit him. We go to his city on a group trip and while we see him and his family, we don’t stay at their house and don’t see them every day. My daughter visits her in-laws for a week at a time - I’d lose my mind.
I’m almost there. However, last year during an episode of protracted brain fog I attempted to work on my electric bill situation.
In the process I paid the darn thing 3 times - once with a paper check, once online and then I set up auto pay.
The electric company must have been amused but they somehow sorted everything out and finished setting up the auto pay without any further interaction from me.
Do you really need to see your doc for that? Can’t you just go to a LabCorp wherever & have them send the results to your doc? If all is good, a quick call/message from the doc is all you need.
That’s not what I meant. I genuinely enjoy being with my in-laws. FIL is one of my best friends and my best fishing buddy. That’s why I said “I like my in-laws a lot and have a great time there.”
It’s being away from home that I don’t like. If they came to visit us it would be great, but driving (relatively)unfamiliar roads for three+ hours is a bit dicey at their age.
And they probably don’t like being away from home either 
I’m really not sure what the advantage would be - in some states (including mine) , I’d have to get an order from a doctor in order for Lab Corp or whatever to do the test. Which might work if I’m in my own state and my own doctor can order it and it might work in another country or a state that doesn’t require a doctor’s order - but if I’m in Seattle , my NY doctor can’t order the test.
I had to look up what a PCP is because I thought that was something very different to this context. It means a Primary Care Physician, so presumably what I’d call a GP.
Is that true? I know of people who have forgotten medication & had it filled while they were away; unsure if it was a national pharmacy, though & I’ve lived close enough to a state line that people live in one state & work in the other. I’ve known some who ran out at lunch to get a test done but maybe their doctor was licensed in both states.
Back in my youth, before and after I was married, I enjoyed week-long camping trips and week-long holidays in sometimes exotic locations. I loved long cruises in the beautiful Georgian Bay and North Channel in my sailboat. I loved winter vacations in the Caribbean.
Today, however, how long I’d be comfortable away from home is measured in hours, not days, months, or years.
When I was hospitalized a few years ago with a heart condition, I used to wander the corridor to a window where I could still see my car in the ER parking lot (accumulating huge parking fees!) and I would weep with the desperation to get back to my home and its little amenities. I was never so happy to get back home!
If I was offered, say, a one-year luxury cruise to all the exotic ports of the world, all port excursions included. I’d happily accept it, and then I would monetize it by selling it at auction. I sure as hell wouldn’t subject myself to it. Many. many decades ago I would have. Not any more.
I am very much a home body. A long weekend and I’m good, thanks. It’s nice to get a change of scenery, but I love my familiar space. I know a week at the most, and I’d be done.
Maybe not exactly - there aren’t really GPs* in the US anymore and a primary care provider might be a specialist in family medicine, a specialist in internal medicine , or a physician’s assistant or a nurse- practitioner.
* GPs used to complete a year long internship after medical school . At some point in the 70s , family medicine became a specialty with a residency similar in length to other specialties.
I checked a few states - Massachusetts, Oregon, New York and California and those four states require labs to only accept orders from providers licensed in those states. I know that where a provider is licensed matters for telehealth.
Pharmacy laws might be different and in border areas, you never really know who does what where - my daughter lives in NJ and when she worked in NY she saw doctors in NY and she most likely would have used a lab and pharmacy in NY. Just because it would have been easier for her. Assuming she needed to go to a lab at all - because there are doctors who have the blood drawn in their office.