Forget 67. America has a new retirement age and you get to pick. It's either 85 or 35.

Oh, no, I'm going to pick 35.

Right.

Okay.

You can do that, but you're going to have to save aggressively, invest smartly, and quit your high-stress career if you can afford it.

No, I didn't do any of those things.

That sounds pretty good, right?

There's this new movement.

It's called Fire, the fire movement.

It stands for financial independence, retire early.

And that has inspired, well, I'm going to say millennials, which you don't fall into that category,

to save aggressively, invest smartly, and then quit their high-stress careers.

But according to a new study, and I don't mean to stress aggressively, invest smartly, and then quit their high-stress careers. But according to a new study, and I don't mean to stress you out,

but you need $1.5 million to retire comfortably,

comfortably being the subjective word in that sentence.

Yeah, I mean, one and a half million retiring in Silicon Valley, California or Los Angeles, you're not going to be very comfortable.

One and a half million retiring in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Yeah, you can do all right.

Maybe a little bit better.

So the old idea of retiring at age 67 or 65 or even 62 and a half. It's being challenged.

And there are some people who have to work well into their 80s because they did not save aggressively or invest smartly.

And there's the other side of the young group who's wanting to invest in crypto and then retire at age 35.

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