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I have a great suggestion for you. Come to America! Settle in Compton, California. Then compare! I would suggest taking it a bit slow so you can acquire required music/vocabulary/skills. As a first step, move to East palo alto whose crime legacy should easily get you in touch with veterans who, lik...

The generator I have now is a tank. A Craftsman 3500. Way beyond my needs and very inefficient. Everyone here uses the Honda 2000. I can buy one new for $950. The savings on fuel on a yearly basis would be upwards of $250 compared to the Craftsman. Based off my current use and with proper maintenan...

I assume that as I get closer to going to Mexico, I'll be more willing to spend some time learning. I can learn vocabulary very quickly, so I suspect I'll pick enough of it up quickly enough To me learning vocabulary is like reading a math book or programming language book - good for rote learning ...

Not sure how much it would help now, but In Albania, just make sure the taxi drops you all the way to the destination instead of stopping midway and sending you towards destination by one of the local buses . Outside of Tirana, Albania has pretty crappy infrastructure and it is not uncommon for Airb...

C40 wrote:Yeah, that's a nice way to end the year - as a millionaire. You're so loaded! You might need to change your name to a different character from The Big Lebowski. Will it be "Big Lebowski", or maybe "Jackie Treehorn"?

Karl Hungus?

Update after little more than 1.5 years post-exit While we were still working, our projected SWR was 1.8%. This was based on our estimated selling price of the house an year before we sold it. Surprisingly, the property prices jumped up quite a bit in Bay area from 2014 to 2015, so our selling pric...

@Henk Congratulations on your exit, reentry and soon to be reentry-exit! I am hoping you didn’t accept this assignment because you got tired of driving and wanted that chauffeured service again

@C40 I am really late to the party, but anyways, congratulations!! It is great to know you are enjoying life!

@GdP I saw consulting income in the previous page, so have you considered getting more consulting gigs which can accelerate wealth accrual?

Good job on your 170k achievement!

After visiting few friends along the way after Badlands, we drove hotshot to Acadia National Park . This was our first national park in the East and the park was very different from what I am used to all these years where entering a NP is like entering Jurassic Park – you are in the park when you en...

The optimism has gone out of me lately. I think it's partially the gray winter weather but I'm also feeling trapped in the life I have. Recently I've been forced to accept the possibility that I'm getting old and inertia to stay on the easy path might be stronger than I am. I've never been good at ...

The job itself feels monotonous and pointless at this point. I feel like I am now the morale problem in my shop, that I'm worthless as a leader and boss. I hate everything about my job--even working with the people I like has now become a draining annoyance. could you volunteer your time outside of...

Happy New Year folks!! Background: DW/I quit our jobs, purged our material possessions as documented in previous posts. Following update begins from the day our house sale was final which was sometime in August last year. I have listed links for convenience so you can spend more time browsing all da...

He is a boomer who overindulged most of his life and started to suffer the consequences. Recently he began to turn that around. That's great! And now he gives advice to others who are failing and suffering in the same ways he suffered. He is telling them how to stop. What has he achieved that makes...

I go back and forth about getting off LinkedIn completely, but I have a handful of friends who are only on LinkedIn. I'd rather keep my ethereal connection with them than quit the web site, so I stay. Did anybody choose to get off LinkedIn when they retired? I have considered deleting my LinkedIn a...

I'm surprised about all the problems you've had with Republic. At least you don't have a contract. The problem with adding a Republic number to Airbnb/Yahoo, and the issue with VM timestamps shouldn't be specific to me - if that is not the case, I would be interested to hear about it.. In the past,...

Its interesting that you guys have to basically tell lies about what you are doing. I can relate even though I am nowhere near FI just yet. People want to know what you are doing and I think I will also be taking a sabbatical and then sort of never come back. Humans are really bad at predicting fut...

DW and I switched to Republic Wireless (RW) as there were lots of positive reviews -- well, $10 definitely sounds attractive compared to $50+ per month. My experience with RW in the past 3 months has been the absolute worst and instead of a rant, here a list of what I have gone thru Soon after the s...

steveo73 wrote:Hi - is this all you saved to retire ? If so that is badass.

that's what i saved as travel fund -- it is not badass
I was already FI when I started the journal.

We sold the house FSBO (no seller's agent), and it was a great experience; we got above asking price and did not have to pay seller's agent commission. We had been tracking market for a while and IMO netted top dollars! I will detail on our experience in a separate post. Posted my FSBO experience h...