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I am retiring soon this seems like a good course of action.
It really seems like this dude woke up one day and asked himself what a cat would do, and just embraced it.
“Cats seem pretty happy. Maybe I should go hang out with them and learn their ways.”
Fucking A right. This is my retirement goal right here.
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Lol, what?
A misguided bot or person and at this point I’m not going through the effort of separating the two.
65? what are you, a pinko? raise retirement age to 80, if presidents can keep working, so can you.
You might consider getting some help, my friend. The comment history seems…off.
Terry was a stray cat in a past life. He even got them with the tried and true “wander into their lives” method.
It’s like the movie Soul but in reverse.
I love when people take in strays and share their stories. Strays are so deserving of love, and their stories are so inspirational.
Thank you for taking care of Terry, and giving him a place to nap and be happy
Omg literally crying
Somebody please give me $3.7MM so I can retire and be this man
Right? So many billionaires wouldn’t even realize it was missing. Just give me $4M so I can fuck off.
I did the math, and if I suddenly gained 980,000 I could continue living my current lifestyle on 2% interest my current bank has.
If I had 1,500,000 I could live a comfortable lifestyle just off the interest.
The downside is, I’d lose my free health insurance. And my last statement, not bill, showed my treatments without insurance would have cost about 1 million dollars for the 3 month quarter.
This is why I always say if I ever got lucky enough to win big on the lottery, I wouldn’t actually stop working. Not completely.
Get a trade doing something you think you’d enjoy, become self employed, and just do it - up to you whether or not you charge for your services. I’d maybe charge rates just low enough to be believable. Maybe.
If you’ve got that much cash, move to a first world country
Give me 1MM and I can be this man easy.
That would only generate about $25k/yr without touching the principle or being outpaced by inflation. You can take 4% but you’d run out of money in about 30 years and $40k would be worth roughly half. But if you can live off $25k you’re good to go!
Okay maybe bit more than 1 million but I wouldn’t need much to live comfortable. Hell I watch a guys YouTube who travels the country in a van seeing amazing sites and living it up. And he does this all on a budget of like 1000 a month.
He traveled all the way to Alaska and it was an amazing playlist. Makes the life I am living seem so pathetic.
I used to watch Cheap RV Living with Bob Wells for years. I even ended up living in my RV for about 4 years while gainfully employed. I will say what you don’t appreciate from YouTube is the sheer boredom day to day and unexpected repairs are brutal. Mechanics want like $100-$250/hr for labor, plus you have parts.
Not to mention stealth camping has never felt completely comfortable to me and getting called out of my car once at gun point by the local sheriffs office was enough to chase me into KOAs.
I own RV park and have lived in a RV myself for years. But it was always in RV Parks. I now own a RV repair business and know all about the repairs needed for an RV. Good thing I can do those repairs myself.
I agree just parking out middle of nowhere is not something I could always get behind?
Sure like to hear the story behind that. Cops would scare me more that a robber.
Is that the dude that does the beet harvest once a year?
I used to know a crustpunk that did the beet harvest every year. He’d live like a king for a few months and was homeless the rest of the time hopping trains and shit.
I onced watch a guys stream that would hitch hike around the country. He once jumped trains as well.
Huh no don’t know that one.
This is the one I follow: https://youtube.com/@trentthetraveler
the worst part about it is it’s so cheap so why the fuck am I not doing that?
Well one my kids keep me here, and my house, wife and the pets. But maybe just maybe kids about to be grown, then going try talk wife into that new life.
Got figure the guy living out of van as only himself and well he does have a dog. So he can get really lonely I am sure. And it’s not the life everyone can do. Takes dedication and you have to learn how to live the minimalist lifestyle.
Also if you don’t have all the money or large following on YouTube along with sponsors, you have to find a way to make a living on the road. But it could be done and probably be a better life then most of us are living right now.
Then again maybe being a nomad sucks and I have rose color glasses on, but damn he makes it look cool.
Check it out for yourself: https://youtube.com/@trentthetraveler
Highly suggest his Great Alaska Adventure Playlist. Definitely something I want to try this summer.
Well nobody is saying you can’t do other things too. Maybe youtube wouldn’t provide you stability, so you never get started.
But now with basic bills paid, maybe you start youtube, and by the end of the year, you have $100 a month from youtube. And then maybe by the end of 5 years, you have $1,000 a month extra. And now you have your stable income from the interest that’s 25k a year, PLUS the extra $1,000 a month from youtube. And instead of doing something you hate, you’re doing something you love.
Or maybe it’s not youtube. Maybe you start a band. Or maybe you make independant movies. Or maybe you do puppet shows at the library. Whatever man! The main point is, most of us do our jobs because we’re slaves to the system. We’re not doing what we love because we love it. We’re doing it because we have to.
Seems high. My wife and I are retired in Seattle with about half that net worth, which includes our home value (which isn’t even paid off).
In Seattle, or in Kitsap county? I’m also guessing that you don’t have massive medical bills.
Seattle not Kitsap, no massive med bills.
I used Kitsap as an example. I’ve noticed that plenty of people will say “Seattle” but actually live in a town well outside the city with far lower housing costs.
We live inside the city limits in a larger house with a relatively hefty mortgage that accounts for the majority of our annual costs, despite the good APR. The biannual chemotherapy is a similar majority of the medical bills.
Could probably make it work with less, but that’s the shortfall from my back-of-the envelope math. Actually just started working with a financial advisor to figure out how to make it happen.
We’re inside the Seattle limits. I highly recommend getting a financial advisor. Ours charges 1% of the fund as an annual fee, and consistently grows it by 8-10%/year, which is better than I could do and zero effort. Our fund is actually getting bigger even though we live off the income + SS. The goal is to give our daughters a nice inheritance, not hand it over to some corporate nursing home so we can sit for an extra couple years waiting to die. If that choice ever comes up I’ll be off to Switzerland to use one of their nighty-night nitrogen pods, which are legal there but not here in Freedomland. Anyway good luck!
I’m still a long way from being able to dip into SS, but my partner would at least qualify for Medicare within the next decade, which would help significantly.
The mortgage should be paid off just a few months after I qualify for SS, so that would definitely help me coast at that point, but I aim to exit the grind far before then.
Terry got sick of working for drug cartel with fast food restaurants as their fronts
That is freaking fantastic.
My cat, Tizzy, loves his brushes.
But, being the good poppa I am I ask him if he wants a brushie and rub the brush on something.
He comes running.
I want Terry’s job.
So cool
Man I gotta be more like Terry
My daughter volunteers at a cat shelter once a week. Most of the time she’s transferring data from old paper files into the computer system, but she spends about a half hour playing with the cats.
Living his best life.
