Hey, we got some interesting information to share.

How about how much your retirement's going to cost you by where you live?

Brian, I am so excited to talk about this because it's one of the questions that a lot of people have.

Okay, what do I actually need to retire?

What do I actually need to experience financial independence?

And this won't come as a surprise, but where you live will actually likely have a huge

impact on what the answer to that question is. And it's not, you know, one of the big things,

when we do content shows, one of the hardest things for us is we have to use some number

for people who are not retiring

for 20, 30 years. Sometimes we use a percentage of income to assume expenses. But that gets to the

point that what's really the most important, it's not really what you make, it's what you actually

are going to spend in retirement. So visual capital, visual capitalists came out with this really interesting chart that shows the entire United States,

and it shows the annual retirement costs by state.

And this is, again, is across food, shelter, transportation, health care, utilities,

and then like a little bit extra to kind of show you,

okay, well, what would be the annual retirement spend, the annual living retirement need by

states? And unsurprisingly, there are some that are relatively low and reasonable. And there's some

that are pretty high and a hard level hard level to get to.

Well, let's compare and contrast here.

If you want to know on the low side, where would you have to live?

It's West Virginia with $58,000 in average annual retirement spending.

If you want to know the highest, we've got Hawaii coming in in $129,000, and the national average is $71,640. So then we said,

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