Admittedly, this IS a retire-early website and, to retire early, one must be somewhat "loaded."
Could someone point "the rest of us" in the right direction to find a similar website for "normal age" retirement and "somewhat" higher than median net worth?
The discussions here at inspiring, but not necessarily "fiscally-comparable" to my own upcoming retirement "budgetary constraints," if you will.
And, you may "quote" me on that.
I come from a long line of "normal age" retirees who were not at all "loaded". I am the very first, and only, one to retire early (age 50), and I am not "loaded" either.
The one thing that my predecessors and myself have in common, is that we strived to save and invest as much as we could during our working years, while still living fairly comfortably. After retirement they all enjoyed 'living the life', with new vehicles, nice vacations, creature comforts of all sorts, etc., all the while living within their means. I caught that 'disease' from them. Except for my early retirement age, I followed their footsteps fairly closely.
I stated all of that, to say, that I firmly believe that those in my family who preceded me, would feel quite comfortable hanging out here in the E-R Forum if they were still among us. Because just as in every day life, there are those with much and those with little and those of us who are here in the middle. And although I have yet to find anyone here on the Forum in the exact same situation as myself, I have had the pleasure of learning from everyone here, rich or poor, younger or older.
So I'd just encourage you to hang around here for a while, since you've only been here a relatively short time so far, and glean what you can, from whoever you can. Because, like me, you might just be surprised at how similar some of the others are to your circumstances. Besides, I've looked around off and on for several years for websites or forums somewhat similar to this one, and haven't found any that offer the wide diversity of people, information, humor, seriousness, and friendliness that this one does.