Hello!
I was just wondering about your situation when you first expatriated, such as your age, whether you had children or not, and how you came to the decision to expatriate
Hello!
I was just wondering about your situation when you first expatriated, such as your age, whether you had children or not, and how you came to the decision to expatriate
I was 44m when we decided, about 1.5 years ago. Been with my husband for 26 years, no kids. We spoke with a financial advisor about retirement planning and realized that if we liquidate everything (sell our real estate, sell collectibles we’ve acquired over the years, cash-out 20+ years of 401k savings once I reach the proper age, etc), we’d be able to buy a cozy little place in Europe and retire comfortably right around when I turn 51. For the next few years, we’re saving our money to make sure we have more than enough margin-of-error funding when the big GTFO date comes. And I’m spending a lot of time studying a new language; I want to be one of those freaks who walks into the immigration office and can immediately respond in their language when they start asking me questions.😅
We’ve always batted around the idea of retiring overseas (husband was stationed there in the 90s, we still travel there often for work and pleasure), but when we took a hard look at how we want to spend the later phases of life, we decided that the US isn’t for us, for a variety of personal, political, and financial reasons.