Getting fired after a reorganization at his firm wasn’t ideal, but Marty Yabrow and his wife, Angie, wanted to make the best of it, so in 2024 they booked a three-city trip to Europe. Then, one morning while Marty was filling out a planning spreadsheet with hotels and restaurants, Angie asked out of the blue, “Why don’t we just move there instead?” Marty was quick to react.
“I deleted that spreadsheet, and I started a new one,” he says.
Despite some initial misgivings from their financial advisor, Marty, 68, crunched the numbers and found that it was not only financially possible but also preferable to retire in France, since he and Angie, 73…
