Agreed. Easy to side step or ignore.

No problem. I should have mentioned that we are both dual citizens US/UK.

Yeah, but except you shouldn’t really have to ‘side step’. Making people aware of potentially related issues is perfectly welcome and very helpful. The following, not so much:

”He probably hasn’t even thought about insurance”
I have.
“Why don’t you just tell people your wife is a US citizen”
she’s not.
“Unless you’ve got $800k you can’t retire here”
I’m not retiring and I have.

Continually pushing for unrelated information just so you can try to disprove the intended strategy is such odd behaviour.

It really doesn’t matter to me, this forum seems to have good information and that’s all I’m looking for. So I’ll be sticking around.

Pretty sure you will, however, switch some new members off with such pre assumptive/sneering attitude to their initial posts.

my personal experience of now 12 years, this has not been the case. I have a car at a vacation location, it is kept in a garage and has a trickle charger. It is used lightly for 5-6 months of the year and unused for 6-7 months of the year. In 12 years I have had zero problems. It is serviced most years, which has been oil and filters. Fluids, brakes, tires, well the whole car are inspected every year.

Trickle chargers can be a fire hazard​​​​​, would it not be safer to simply disconnect a battery terminal rather than leave it unattended and connected to a trickle charger for 6 months?

And posting half-ar$ed, or to be charitable, "incomplete" information, and expecting a complete and reliable answer isn't odd?

Trust me, over the 24 years I have many times more people asking about the minutia of buying a holiday or retirement home in Florida but who were completely oblivious of visa requirements and restrictions on length of stay during one visit (to the US*), than I have in your relatively unusual situation. And the most common "outlier explanation" is having an undisclosed USC spouse, hence my guess. So you're putting yourself in the situation of being the patient who complains to his doctor that the treatment for the pain in his hip isn't working, but who hasn't bothered to tell his doctor about the corn on his toe, which causes an awkward gait.

It used to be the near-motto of this forum, that to get good information, you have to give good information. Also bear in mind that everyone here is giving you the benefit of their knowledge and experience for free, and you shouldn't be surprised that they get frustrated when their time has been wasted by someone who has not given a complete picture and/or wants to fight over every question which the person asking doesn't think is relevant.

* On this specific point, there have been several people who planned to "comply" with the "90 days" restriction of the VWP by taking quarterly trips to Mexico, the Bahamas, or somewhere in the Caribbean. ... How ever, none of those countries count as "leaving the US" for the purpose of the VWP. And it usually took some serious "tooth pulling" to get enough "irrelevant" information to be able to give the person asking that essential information.

BINGO!