Having been fortunate enough to have done quite a lot traveling up to this point, my husband and I would like to buy property to have as our vacation home. So our next vacation will be spent traveling to a few different places, scouting things out. We weighed out the pros and cons of having a vacation home vs. traveling to different places for vacation and we've really mulled over what vacation means to us now. We ultimately decided that at this point, we'd like to build up the familiarity of going to a place that is our second home. We find that notion comforting and we like the fact that we can make it our own, furnish it as we'd like, etc. We can also build friendships in the locality. We found that these dimensions to vacationing are what would give us the most pleasure at this point. We also thought that it would be a nice idea to put things that we've bought throughout our travels into the house…in a sense, building a sense of continuity with our past vacations and our future ones!