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• cricket98@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can retire off a million dollars of assets easily

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The hell you can, not in certain regions of the US. Don’t know about the rest of the world.

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can you just have to redefine what easy means. Get some land in the deep south, put a trailer on it, and sign up for every government benefit.

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep. Be smart, and live within your means.

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    • cricket98@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      maybe not san fransisco but in most parts of the us you can retire off $1m can’t believe this is controversial

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        San Diego (and all its suburbs), Los Angeles (and all its suburbs), San Francisco, etc. etc. etc. Basically any major city in wealthyish states.

        its not controversial, its just that there’s a variance in cost of living, based on where you are in the US. Last I heard, a few years ago, one million was the absolute minimum that you needed.

        Try Googling “How much do I need to retires on?” and see the answers that you get.

        Fidelity says the following …

        Our savings factors are based on the assumption that a person saves 15% of their income annually beginning at age 25 (which includes any employer match), invests more than 50% on average of their savings in stocks over their lifetime, retires at age 67, and plans to maintain their preretirement lifestyle in retirement (see footnote 1 for more details).

        Based on those assumptions, we estimate that saving 10x (times) your preretirement income by age 67, together with other steps, should help ensure that you have enough income to maintain your current lifestyle in retirement. That 10x goal may seem ambitious. But you have many years to get there.

        And even they call that formula “ambitious”.

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