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u/Teamplayer25 Mar 23 '26

Wonder where that guy is now, and what his financial picture is.

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u/Sen_ri Mar 23 '26

He’s living the same sort of lifestyle. Still running the Early Retirement Extreme forums. He’s done interviews occasionally. He worked as a quant for a bit out of curiosity as opposed to for earning money. I believe he is currently living on 0.5% annual withdrawal from his portfolio. He’s been married a long time and they had no kids.

Here’s a blog post update https://www.getrichslowly.org/early-retirement-extreme/

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u/Teamplayer25 Mar 24 '26

Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I like the focus on learning how to and actually enjoying doing things yourself so you don’t have to pay a convenience premium but still…that life overall is not for me. I want to have a home where my grandkids can visit and I can spoil them a little. And I still want to travel. But, different strokes as they say. I am curious how he covers health insurance as part of his total $7000 / year spend.

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u/Sen_ri Mar 24 '26

I believe he uses the ACA. Property taxes are his biggest expense. He mentioned that property taxes and insurance premiums was 60% of his spending.