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Grizz, You might be on to something. fraser

My wife and I are generally happy, optimistic people. We believe we can be happy just about anywhere. At present, most of our friends are also our co-workers - we are generally either at work or at home recouperating. We moved to this city to find ourselves 12 years ago and live some 3500 km...

I live in Canada year round. You could move this far North

My wife and I live in a relatively big city in Canada with our 1 year old and another on the way. We're in our 30s and have schooled hard and worked hard the last 15 years and we've built up a fair sized nest-egg but the big city is an expensive and fast paced place. We could handle the fast...

Hello, I'm... Hello, I'm Fraser male, Canadian, 33, married with 3 little ones. Currently I figure we're about 7-10 years from being FI. Current family net worth of $550k, much of it ($350k) in home equity. Doing very well thanks to real estate boom here in Alberta. Hope to semi-retire in...

Thanks Milton, I'm familiar with Derek Foster's strategy and I've used much of it in designing up my plan. He was able to retire using a mix of Income trusts and Dividend stocks. Personally, income trusts don't grow enough for me and I figure I can expect greater growth than inflation with...

Thanks for all the comments, I agree that having 30-40x needed annual cash flow should be my portfolio balance goal. Here in Canada, Dividends (by Canadian companies) are taxed very favourably compared to capital gains and interest so if I can structure my portfolio primarily to produce...

Hi, Fraser here Short-time lurker, first-time poster I have seen a lot of posts regarding safe withdrawal rates but don't see many/any posts on living off dividends. My plan is to live off dividends which will likely produce 2.5-3 percent of the portfolio balance. I dont intend on withdrawing...