Any travel RNs also have home-base apartment?

[shneebee3]

I am contemplating trying travel nursing to help determine if I truly would like to move to another state. I have always been intrigued by the thought of travel nursing given it allows you to see new things/places much easier than vacations.

I am a single RN and am wondering if any travel nurses currently or when they started out traveling also kept an apartment in their home city? Getting rid of my apartment when I'm not sure if I will like the travel nursing makes me nervous.

Thanks for all insight :)

[Wolf at the Door, BSN]

easy Keep the place for 4-6 months.

[Barkow]

The real monetary advantage of travel nursing is in the tax-free money you get for housing/meals due to the fact that you are duplicating living expenses at the travel location. If you keep the apartment as your tax home you get the advantage of tax-free stipends, but this is only an advantage if your current apartment doesn't cost so much to make it not worth keeping. It sounds like you want to use travel nursing to lead to a permanent move, so probably no harm keeping the apartment until you make that decision.