retired at 33; former engineer and attorney; FIRE blogger; professional dilettante
North Carolina
Joined September 2013
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Growing your wealth may require a bit of struggle and sacrifice at times. It might even be a grind!
You know what's even more of a grind?
Being poor forever.
I will say the toilets in Europe have had a great track record for us in the 20+ airbnbs/hotels we've been in.
Kitchen sinks - not so much
Once we get Europe to install shower curtains, window screens, AC, dishwashers, clothes dryers, blinds/curtains, and fans, then we cookin!
We can't even do math to figure out how much an 18% tip is and they want us to do real time price monitoring to make sure we don't get fleeced when buying a beer? While drunk?!
Not sure why plumbing works so differently south of the equator... Water flows the opposite direction?
Every time we travel, it's amazing how so many things just don't work. I think we spent the entire summer in South America in various Airbnbs where a toilet was always broken, leaking, or malfunctioning. Fortunately had 2+ bathrooms everywhere except 1 place. Bucket flush worked.
No, we're going to be traveling for majority of the next couple of months so we went ahead and put it up now so it'll be up while we are back home here and there before actual Christmas.
New side hustle just dropped!
BREAKING: Trump has revealed his new anti-fraud program set up to reward people who expose fraud with a 1% commission on the money uncovered. "If you turn somebody in and you, let's say report and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%."
USB-C as a standard is a big pro-consumer big win.
I also like some California regs like including taxes and fees in online travel listings. Makes price discovery infinitely easier so the free market can operate better.
Just found the comment saying "well, the quality of life where I lived in the coastal elite cities in USA isn't that great so Europe was actually an improvement!". They (literally and figuratively) skipped straight over the rest of the USA on their way to Europe.
Hehe - reading the comments now. "Well akshully dishwashers and dryers AREN'T luxury items. In Europe we often don't choose to have one bc our kitchens/houses are smaller and dryers consume too much electricity which is expensive"
The article talks about how all the interviewees almost universally faced hostile backlashes when they posted on reddit or social media about desiring to move back to the USA.
Folks are brainwashed. Europe is a great place to vacation or (maybe) live if you have plenty of $.
Fun tales of folks escaping "politically scary" America for a "better life" in Europe. Then they realize the grass isn't always greener so they come on back.
wired.com/story/they-fled-tr…
I like them for the $45,000 they gave me to switch brokerage firms. Otherwise I don't care for the interface or the gambling aspects. Just need somewhere to hodl some ETFs :)
Robinhood is for kids! I say that as an account holder at RH, but acknowledge Fidelity is for actual serious investments
Was it about fish and loaves of bread but the modern version is breaking off little shares of SPCX shares?
