Category: Financial Freedom
Housing Costs in Charlotte, North Carolina
Do you live in a high-cost city or state? Are you geo-curious?* Anyone familiar with this blog knows I’m a big fan of geoarbitrage. In 2006, Mrs. Groovy and I left high-cost Long Island for low-cost Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the best move we ever made. In one fell swoop, we dramatically changed the…
Just Because Someone Has More Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Have Enough
Several years ago I had a problem. I wanted to get into shape, but I didn’t want to spend a dime on a gym membership or drop some serious coin on a home gym. To solve this problem, I fired up Google and did a search on “building muscle without equipment,” or something to that…
What a Great Way to Start the Week: Choose FI
Today’s definitely not a manic Monday. Yesterday I got word that my interview on Choose FI will be available today. What’s Choose FI? Only the top-rated financial podcast in the world according to a recent poll of the Rockstar Finance community. I’m a big fan of Choose FI. The two hosts, Brad and Jonathan, are…
The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Abandoning a High Cost State in Retirement
My retired aunt recently moved from Long Island, New York, to Wake Forest, North Carolina. It wasn’t easy. Packing all the furniture and stuff she crammed into her house over the course of 40-plus years and moving it 500 miles south required a lot of work. But thankfully all that work was worth it. No…
Ten Unusual Signs You’re Kicking Butt Financially
By world and historic standards, I’ve lived a charmed life. Great family, Norman Rockwell community, material comfort, plenty of opportunity, and plenty of freedom. I wasn’t an evil One-Percenter, mind you. Not by a long shot. My dad was a cop and my mom was a medical records clerk. But I never wanted for anything.…