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[COLOR="Black"][COLOR=black]I have posted some of this info a week or so ago….I was looking at the Boglehead site and thought their worksheet might make it clearer what I am hoping to find out, so I cannibalized it and cut quite a bit out. Here is the situation I am in……a LOT of if’s, and likely...

We haven't actually kept really close track of our bills.....but they are somewhere around $1000 a month including food, utilities, health insurance etc. Quite a few months that is all we spend. When we retire I will be putting my wife on my health insurance so that will go up (she is on...

Oh god.....don't mention G Kids. Even my wife would just as soon not see any. We both are just pretty boring people who are more than happy to putter around the house...yard....I would golf if I have the money. Lots of other teachers I work with don't save much of any money. I can understand...

Running here depends on where you live. In town...here in Harrogate, it is rolling and not that hilly. If you live outside town to the north/northwest you get into the Dales...it becomes hilly. Look up the Nidderdale on the internet(think "all creatures great and small"...same area). The most...

That's kind of what I thought as well......the system is not right. My wife...who has worked her butt off all her life here in England will get MORE retirement benefits from the US than she will from the UK. Hmmmmm... not that I won't take advantage of course..........She literally will get less...

Ahhh, running. After years of not running, my knees were finally cooperating enough to let me run again (after 2 P Tendon surgeries on each knee). Slowly worked up to 8 miles every other day...started racing again.......AND THEN I WANTED MORE!!! It has been 2.5 weeks since I last ran. Looks like...

Thanks.....I thought I might have seen it somewhere before. The finance guy that told me this one a year or so ago said he had a big argument with a tax or social security guy about this when he had a customer who was American and married a Canadian. The fellow eventually called back to say he...

Well....kind of 4 kids from the ex husband. 3 of them are older and on their own....just the daughter who is still under our wing. My wife has been to WA the last couple summers and seems to be ok with it......although she freely admits there will be a little homesickness etc. I grew up in W WA...

Anybody have a wife who is not a US citizen and getting the spouse social security? I would imagine (hope) there are. I have been told by a finance guy that my wife will be eligible for the spouse part of social security (we would be living in the US)...which is 50% of what I will get....anybody...

Yep, my situation has a bunch of little things built in that can swing either way. 1. Bought the house here in England when I thought I would be living here for good (although not in this house), in which case the market swings wouldn't make much difference. With hindsight....instead of staying...

I was figuring that most months we could get by on $2000, but I was allowing $3000+. We really do live cheaply most of the time (we are really boring). The costs for electricity etc in the Spokane area is still pretty reasonable compared to most areas. We do have to allow a trip back to the UK...

Just found this site a few days ago, so I have been slowly sifting through the threads looking for things that will help me out. This could be a little long winded…. I’m in a situation at 51 where it finally hit me in the last 6 months that I might be able to call it quits from teaching by...