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  • Welcome
  • Binge!
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    • What’s New
    • Plan for Travel
    • Airbnb Living
    • Real Costs
    • Travel with Dogs
  • We Recommend
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    • Staying Healthy
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    • Europe
      • Albania
      • Austria
      • Croatia
      • Czech Republic
      • Greece
      • Hungary
      • Italy
      • Malta
      • Poland
      • Portugal
      • Romania
      • Serbia
      • Slovakia
      • Spain
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    • Middle East
      • Turkey
    • North America
      • Canada
      • Mexico
    • South America
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru
    • Asia
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  • Save and Invest

    What Is Fixed Income Investing?

    July 16, 2020 /

    We’re providing a primer on what fixed income investing is, the role it plays in a portfolio and why fixed income investing might not be right for you.

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  • Real Life in Retirement,  Retire Early

    Money Worries And Retirement

    July 9, 2020 /

    Before we reached financial independence and said goodbye to our jobs, we had a lot of worries about making this significant change in our lives.

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  • Save and Invest

    How To Track Spending and Budget

    June 25, 2020 /

    One of the secrets to building wealth is simply to know where your money is going. We track every dollar we spend and, in the year before we retired, we were able to save 70% of our after-tax income.

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  • Save and Invest

    How We Invest in the Stock Market for Financial Independence

    June 18, 2020 /

    We recently provided the briefest of overviews to our investment strategy as part of a look at our risk management approach. No surprise: our video garnered a lot of questions about our exact investment strategy.

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  • Retire Early

    How to Introduce Your Partner To Financial Independence

    June 4, 2020 /

    It could be the best conversation that you ever have with your partner. Or it could be the conversation that launches a thousand fights.

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    October 7, 2020

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    August 27, 2020
  • Retire Early

    Staying Motivated To Retire Early

    May 21, 2020 /

    It’s one thing to decide on the goal of becoming financially independent . It’s quite another to get through the long years of earning, saving and investing to achieve your goal.

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  • How To Manage Risk In Early Retirement
    Real Life in Retirement,  Retire Early

    How To Manage Risk In Early Retirement

    May 14, 2020 /

    We've gone and done the one thing that every retiree fears. We retired just months before a significant market crash with a recession now looming on the horizon.

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    November 22, 2020
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    March 26, 2020

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    July 23, 2020
  • How To Save More Than Half Of Your Income For Early Retirement
    Retire Early,  Save and Invest

    How To Save More Than Half Of Your Income For Early Retirement

    April 30, 2020 /

    We were never people who bothered to keep a budget or even track our spending. Money came in, money came out and, as long as we tucked something into our investments each month, we were happy with this situation.

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  • Lessons from Early Retirement
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    Lessons from Early Retirement

    March 26, 2020 /

    Six months ago, after many years of saving and investing, we were fortunate enough to reach our goal of financial independence.

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    October 1, 2020

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  • How To Become Financially Independent In Your 40s Or Earlier
    Retire Early,  Save and Invest

    How To Become Financially Independent In Your 40s Or Earlier

    March 18, 2020 /

    It took a lot of years of saving and investing to get to where we are today: Free to quit our corporate jobs and travel the world, ticking off our bucket list as we go.

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