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  • Welcome
  • Binge!
  • Free Stuff
  • Popular
    • What’s New
    • Plan for Travel
    • Airbnb Living
    • Real Costs
    • Travel with Dogs
  • We Recommend
    • Logistics
    • Travel Gear
    • Kitchen Essentials
    • Staying Healthy
  • Destinations
    • Europe
      • Albania
      • Austria
      • Croatia
      • Czech Republic
      • Greece
      • Hungary
      • Italy
      • Malta
      • Poland
      • Portugal
      • Romania
      • Serbia
      • Slovakia
      • Spain
      • Ukraine
    • Middle East
      • Turkey
    • North America
      • Canada
      • Mexico
    • South America
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru
    • Asia
      • Thailand
  • About Us
  • Retire Early

    What We Got Right to Retire Early

    August 27, 2020 /

    In order to retire so early, we made a few good financial decisions along the way.

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  • Retire Early

    What We Got Right to Retire Early

    August 10, 2020 /

    In order to retire so early -- when Gillian was in her 30s and I was in my 40s -- we got a few things right.

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  • Real Life in Retirement

    How to Plan Life After Retirement

    July 23, 2020 /

    You’ve put in your last day of work; you’ve got your finances all lined up; what happens next?

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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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  • Italy

    Nomad Life Turned Upside Down When COVID-19 Hit

    June 29, 2020 /

    We were in the midst of enjoying February in beautiful Florence when we first heard rumblings of a virus that was spreading quickly in northern Italy.

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    April 18, 2021
  • 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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    April 30, 2020
  • 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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  • 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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