I wrote previously about how 2019 is going to be a big travel year for us, after our younger child goes off to college in August. One of our trips is expected to be to Spain, Portugal and France in September and October, and we are starting now to think about an itinerary. Our intent is to 'slow travel' and stay at reasonably priced AirBNB's off the beaten path, so [...]
Living in New York City, the financial capital of the world, talk of the markets can easily occur multiple times a day even for the average bystander. I also happen to be a personal finance junkie, used to work in finance and still have friends in the field, so recession watch is at the top of my mind. The recent inversion of the yield curve, where the yield on the [...]
As we've been writing about on here since the beginning of this website, our youngest daughter goes off to college later this year, and that will be the moment we officially become empty-nesters and can employ our FIRE escape plan. She is now receiving her college decisions, and scholarship / financial aid offers, and so her college price tag is become more clear by the day. Private college costs $300,000 [...]
Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. We may receive compensation if you click one of those links and purchase a product. This reader is choosing between a real estate investment in Alabama or Costa Rica: My wife and I (both born and raised in the US) are looking into buying our first rental property. I'm looking at a condo in Gulf Shores, Alabama, but she wants [...]
With both our youngest daughter and my nephew graduating high school this year, the subject of taking a gap year did come up for discussion. Both kids are going straight to college, but both did express interest in Costa Rica if they had opted to do a gap year. My nephew is interested in marine biology and spent a few weeks in Spain studying Spanish, so Costa Rica would be [...]
In a recent post, Mr. Free @ 33 blogged that FIRE is a paradox, pointing out that the people most well-positioned to achieve are the people least likely to need it – Warren Buffett is the example cited. In the post, Mr. Free @ 33 was inspired by Retire By 40, another blogger who had posted that FIRE is a fad due to its anti-establishment appeal which by definition then [...]
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