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    eBike Recommendations?

    I would like to buy an eBike for DW. Needs to be a pretty upright configuration with a step through frame. She won't ride very hard or very much but I'd like to avoid junk. Ideally made in Taiwan or Korea. Any recommendations?
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    Target Retirement Month

    My thought was to make my last official day early January. I have enough after tax money to cover the first couple of years. That way I would be able to stay in the 0% capital gains range and I would take all my gains that year. Any reason to do otherwise? Just trying to finesse that first year.
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    Finding a place to settle down

    So we have ALMOST :blush: settled on a forever place on the East coast. Kids are all over so there was nothing tying us to geography and this was a compromise between me and DW. But we will be outsiders where we are going. Have done it many times before but we always had school and kids to...
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    Creating a paycheck in retirement

    Let me start with this: DW and I are NOT good at controlling spending. If we have money in our pocket, we spend it. So I have always controlled our spending by limiting how much we had each month. For a while we even went to cash only. In retirement I would like to replicate that...
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    Hiring a retirement planner

    Sorry if this has been asked - I did a search and did not see a similar thread. Has anyone hired a retirement planning firm to create a detailed plan? I am about 18 months out. The more I learn the more I realize I don't know. I'm over answering the question of "Can I retire?" and feel...
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    Expat approaching the finish line

    [Yes, I did read the Am I Ready checklist, yes I did run everything through FIRECalc] Long time lurker decided to uncloak. DW and I turned 57 this year. I have 30 years with Mega. We have been expats in a low cost part of Europe for several years now and our contract runs to 2022. The last...
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