Tag: geoarbitrage
Five Things Geoarbitrage Can Do to Improve Your Life
Anyone familiar with this blog knows I’m a big fan of geoarbitrage. Aside from marrying Mrs. Groovy, geoarbitrage is the primary reason I achieved financial independence well before I was eligible for Social Security benefits. With that said, here are five reasons why those in a high-cost-of-living state should consider moving to a low-cost-of-living state. Five Reasons…
Ten Reasons Why You Can’t Save Money – Part One
Americans are a confounding lot. On one hand, they’ve never had more opportunities to make money and save than they do right now. There were no app developers, YouTube personalities, Uber drivers, direct deposits, and Roth IRAs when I was growing up. On the other hand, however, they’ve never been more racked by financial insecurity…
Life In Rural America
Mrs. Groovy and I are big proponents of geoarbitrage. When done with a nice chunk of home equity, it’s a great way to radically change your financial fortunes for the better. By using geoarbitrage, we went from Baby Step 0 (i.e., awash in debt and living paycheck to paycheck) to Baby Step 7 (i.e., no…
Seven Ways to Lower Your Cost of Government
For most people, especially those doing the 9 to 5 grind in a high-tax state, their biggest household expense is government. Way back in October of 2015, I wrote a post based on the household expenses of a California family being featured in Money magazine. The total tax bill for this family was $45,000. This…
Taxes and Obamacare and Sasha and Talking Trash
My taxes are easy. Pension income plus dividend income minus standard deductions and personal exemptions for a married couple filing jointly times ten percent. So I do my taxes myself and file online using one of the IRS’s free software tools. In the previous two years, it took me about an hour to do my…