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Rkser- Your list sounds almost exactly like mine, except that in addition to all you listed I now am also helping a friend in his dental practice 1 day a week so he can work less. For me, it’s all about living out my faith. My purpose has been to love the world around me and make a positive...

Congrats!!

My dad was an avid traveler, taking 3-4 major trips a year starting when he was 65. By his mid 70’s he found cruises to be the most appealing way to go, because he could just unpack once on the ship and wouldn’t have to deal with the hassles of different hotels and various modes of...

Congrats!! Now you get the best of both worlds. You can enjoy retirement and still dabble just a bit in the work that you love doing. I sold my dental practice 4+ years ago and am doing the same thing- still dabbling a bit.

I totally get what you are dealing with. We do need a purpose in life, and those that say that they don’t need a purpose- I salute you. You have won they game and have achieved FIRE, but that doesn’t mean that you can never work again, rather, you now have the luxury to work on you own terms...

Great post! Much of this resonates with me as well…. But I have also discovered that in some things, I have been right all along. Over the past 10 years, I have had the opportunity to mentor a few younger guys who, seeing how successful I was in my career, sought me out for advice in how to...

There are some folks who do fail to plan, or grossly underestimate the amount of money they really need to live in retirement, but I imagine that those people aren’t hanging out on this forum

Your age: 58 (FI @ 47, “retired” @ 54) Budget annually for travel in retirement: no real budget. Expenditures vary but has been as much as 40k in a year How many trips per year: Travel is a big priority for us in retirement. We average around 6 trips a year. Our aim is to do at least...

Life is too short to spend your days working at a job you hate…. Especially since you don’t have to do it

75 walk, 74 bike, 52 mass transit. Sounds about right except the mass transit number is going to go up as soon at the metro station that is near my house finally opens. I’m in Reston Va right at the Reston Town Center

And what did you say to them when they asked you that question?

Sleep has always been a priority of mine as I’ve tried to solve the issue of my daytime fatigue. I have been wearing a Fitbit to help monitor my sleep and gain insight into what works or doesn’t work for me. Since retiring, my quality of sleep has improved. The biggest difference is that I...

Appropriate thread for our current situation. I’m born and raised in the DC metro area and am now retired in Reston, Va, a suburb of DC. I’ve longed to move to California for most of my life, either the Bay Area or SoCal, mostly because of the weather. We have started casually scoping out...

Just finished up a trip to Vegas, Zion, and Bryce. It was plenty crowded everywhere. On our trip we noticed that many many people didn't mask up when going into the restaurants and stores unless it was mandatory. Both Zion and Bryce required masks to board their park buses.

We had booked a Nat Geo tour to Italy in the Fall. earlier this week they cancelled it. I have friends still trekking to Europe but they are all doing it on their own, setting up all their own arrangements, and my wife and I are simply not comfortable doing that, especially during these crazy...

Nothing wrong with going back to work, if that is what makes you happy. What is nice is that in your current financial situation, you can do it on your terms. I "retired" over 3 years ago at 54. I sold my dental practice to a young doc, but he asked me to stay for a while and we came to an...

The trip was supposed to happen early/mid October

Well, just days after we signed on for a trip to Italy they cancelled the tour. We were taking a Nat Geo tour and it was nearly fully booked. Oh well.

Fortunately for me, I've spent the past 30+ years living in the HCOL area of DC (Mclean, Va) I've been looking at Orange County in SoCal or Walnut Creek in Norcal and COL-wise it is about the same. So I'm used it it.

Really tired of the heat and humidity of August in the DC metro area. I’ve been here all my life and never adjusted. I try embracing it but my body just can’t take it. I’ve been basically holed up indoors in A/C waiting for Fall to get here. My dream of moving to coastal Ca might just...

I’ve been “retired” now for 3 years and haven’t bothered with a budget. We spend as freely as we want to. I have checked from time to time to see what percent withdrawal rate we are spending at and the good news is that we are within the safe range. I did carefully track our spending prior to...

We have actually been considering just that. We are still waiting to see if our middle daughter decides to stay in San Fran, and where our youngest decides to eventually settle.

Exactly my dream. I’ve been California dreaming for most of my life. I’m retired now and have been blessed financially. I could afford to retire there on the coast, but my family is here and it would be tough to leave them, so the timing is not right….. yet.

My friend grew up in Hawaii and has spent his entire working life there. When he retired he couldn’t wait to get off the island. [Mod Edit] The increasing crime, of which he had been a victim many times over, got to him. He is now happily enjoying retirement stateside on the West Coast.

Just got back from Oahu and it was nuts (see my thread). We were thinking about going to Italy in October, but my wife is having second thoughts. She is afraid that the trip will be too much of a hassle during these times of COVID. Right now all regions of Italy are white zones (Italy has...