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This has probably been done, but not that I recall over the past few years at least. Please feel free to answer whether you've retired already or not yet.
I get the impression (name of forum, duh) that the majority here want to retire as soon as possible and they're willing to accept lower living expenses/less security to do so. OTOH, I know people who reached FI long ago and continue to work, some because they just love what they do, want to leave a big inheritance, want the added security and/or they plan to live it up in retirement by having a nest egg that's well beyond their projected needs. Some here have intimated (or said outright) that their nest egg was as much as 2X what the 4% SWR model would suggest they needed.
There is of course, no "right answer."
I get the impression (name of forum, duh) that the majority here want to retire as soon as possible and they're willing to accept lower living expenses/less security to do so. OTOH, I know people who reached FI long ago and continue to work, some because they just love what they do, want to leave a big inheritance, want the added security and/or they plan to live it up in retirement by having a nest egg that's well beyond their projected needs. Some here have intimated (or said outright) that their nest egg was as much as 2X what the 4% SWR model would suggest they needed.
There is of course, no "right answer."