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Two of my close friends retired both LIAs under 40. One made it big (5M) with startup, the other retired with around 2M in a low cost area (his wife is working for insurance). Other than close friends circle who know he is not working, his title is CEO of an App Development company and has a ...

I guess it depends on individual choices. Both of my friends who retired early, want their kids to have US education and are also very introverted in nature, they prefer to live in the US as they spent almost half of the lives in the US (most of adult lives). In my case, I want to R2I for 10 years ...

I guess 35k / yr in expenses being too low is subject to individual life style. I can speak from seeing the life style of my friend. In low cost areas, a 200k house would have property taxes around 2k per year or less. As an example, South Carolina has some of the lowest property tax rates of any ...

[QUOTE=FB2020;627658]Can you explain the assumption behind 2M? what's the withdrawal date assumed here? is it the widely used 4% ? And are you assuming purchasing health insurance yourself when budgeting 2M?[/QUOTE] Here is my thinking around 2M, For some one aged 40 and expected to live 90 ...

Also, very important for Early retirement folks (50+ years in retirement) with a 2M budget in the USA, apart from good health are having good hands on skills e.g. one should be able to fix the house hold stuff such as plumbing, being to able to take care of repairs, basic car repair The more DIY ...

Is this like getting "accepted" into program? How would one know that they are in the queue? I mean is there a waiting list #? Back in the day Prius had a waiting period of 8-12 months, 2 years seem a long [QUOTE=dixit;627641]I did....online at 7.35pm last night (I went to the store at lunch time ...

They can be either freelancing or work for a company. As I mentioned earlier, you need to have good relationship with the customer who can support your part-time work and convince your company management to keep you on their account. [QUOTE=FB2020;627527]Thanks for the info. Is this work a "job ...

[QUOTE=FB2020;627442]Are there also jobs that are remote work and part-time? in US?[/QUOTE] There are some jobs like call center support, medical transcription, editorial etc, that can be remote / part-time besides software development jobs. It probably takes few years of relationship building with ...

OP Early retirement in the USA can be expensive. The biggest unknowns as others pointed out are health care, college education for kids. However, I know couple of my friends who are in our age group (I am 38, so close enough to your age) who did that successfully. They have no R2I plans. While one ...

My answers [QUOTE=Chakraan;626816]-How old is your parents? [B]Mine 72,68. Hers 68,66[/B] -Do you have any siblings? [B]One sibling but in a different city in India, the sibling has plans to move to Hyderabad but waiting on the right opportunity[/B] - Are you R2Iing to your hometown? [B]Yes[/B ...