W2R
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1-4 and 6...
Also an introvert, don't know or care about the Joneses, and debt-free 'cept for the mortgage.
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+1
#5 doesn't apply for me, since I couldn't retire until eligible for retirement medical at age 61.5 . But all the rest do.
I'd suggest this addition...
As previous polls here have shown, we're almost all introverts. I've come to believe that makes a huge difference. The extroverts I know dread the idea of ER.
I don't know. The polls *say* we're almost all introverts, but for a bunch of introverts we sure have a lot of threads about negative things others said or may say when we tell them we are retiring and ain't it awful, blah blah. Or, other fears about what people will think.
The hard core introverts among us might say, frankly...
Another thing we might add to the list, is that (at least in my perception?) most of us worked like dogs for very long hours for years instead of just cruising through life. I feel like I fit in with the profile in that regard too, if that is one of our shared characteristics.