Do We Have Enough for Early Retirement?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
At 53 years old, can my wife and I retire in about five years and start spending half the year in Europe?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. |
| 0:05.8 | It's Thursday, February 9th, and we are here answering your financial questions. |
| 0:10.4 | If you have one, go to our website, JillOnMoney.com, click the contact us button, and let us know |
| 0:17.2 | if you'd like to come on the air because then it's more fun. |
| 0:20.0 | We just like it better. |
| 0:21.4 | We've had quite a morning market, a lot of interesting calls, a lot of 40-year-olds who |
| 0:26.1 | feel very stressed out. |
| 0:27.6 | Are you stressed out? |
| 0:28.6 | We don't want you to be stressed out. |
| 0:29.6 | If you feel stressed, we really want to help relieve that stress. |
| 0:34.0 | One thing you can do is figure out what it is that's stressing you out, and maybe we have |
| 0:38.6 | an answer. |
| 0:39.6 | You never know, but you've got to get online and hop and question into the queue, so at least |
| 0:45.2 | we have an opportunity to help you out. |
| 0:46.9 | Let's do some emails. |
| 0:48.5 | This is from Alessandro, who says, I'm a big fan, I love your decisive answers guiding people |
| 0:53.8 | through these times. |
| 0:55.3 | My wife and I live in Florida, we're both 53, and have been talking about retiring early |
| 1:01.1 | within the next four or five years while we still have strong health. |
| 1:05.8 | We had planned to significantly reduce our spending by moving to the south of Spain and |
| 1:10.6 | or Italy for six months of the year, staying at Airbnb's or six-month short-term rentals |
| 1:16.1 | and traveling through Europe as locals, and then we would buy a small two-bedroom apartment |
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