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I spent a lifetime skimping and worrying about my retirement portfolio and savings, and by the time I was 58 in 2020, they were worth $3 million — more than enough to retire and cover healthcare for the rest of my life.Yet, I worried about worst-case scenarios, such as hyperinflation…
What combat cameraman Ian Ives remembered immediately after the explosion was a strange calm.”My first thought was: I’m in heaven” he recently told Business Insider’s Jake Gabbard for the War Journal video series. Then the pain came.”Everything started to hurt,” he said. “I started hearing my buddies, you know, screaming,…
Sandra and Jeff Mayernik had it all: successful careers as real estate agents, and a large custom-built home on five acres overlooking Oregon’s Cascade Mountains.But over time, their idyllic life had became more stressful. Jeff suffered multiple heart attacks, their income stopped growing, and their bills kept rising. By 2023,…
I was born on the East Coast, and my family moved around a lot. By the time I graduated from high school in Texas, I was the new girl again, surrounded by people who’d known each other since childhood. Everyone seemed to “belong” somewhere, but I was still trying to…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with married couple Sandra and Jeff Mayernik, 62-year-old retired realtors who left the US in 2023 to travel abroad. The couple, who run the blog The Mobile Retiree, are currently in Pogradec, Albania. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.Jeff:…
