June 2018 - Route to Retire

Considerations for Planning to Retire Abroad

17 Comments / Geoarbitrage, Financial Independence / Retire Early (FIRE), Life in Early Retirement, Panama / Jim @ Route To Retire / June 26, 2018

With our recent announcement of us moving up our early retirement date to the end of 2018, the pressure’s now on. We’re now planning to retire abroad to Panama in the summer of 2019. The news was exciting for us to share, but now reality’s setting in. Although a year seems like a lot of time, there’s really a lot that needs to be done. It would be one thing if we were just moving to another country for a […]

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Shit Just Got Real… Moving Early Retirement Up to 2018!

54 Comments / Life in Early Retirement, Financial Independence / Retire Early (FIRE), General Thoughts, Panama / Jim @ Route To Retire / June 19, 2018

So things just got interesting here in the R2R household. We’ve decided to move our early retirement date up to be 12/31/18. Yeah, that’s right – just over six months from now. Crazy, right? Then to top it off, we decided to push up our move to Panama as well. We’ll now be starting that adventure about a year from now in the summer of 2019. Making the decision to move up our early retirement date isn’t a decision we’re taking

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If You’re Not Happy Now, FIRE Can’t Fix That… Baloney!

20 Comments / General Thoughts, Financial Independence / Retire Early (FIRE), Motivation / Jim @ Route To Retire / June 12, 2018

Much of what I’ve read lately seems to revolve around the idea that if you’re not happy today, you won’t be happy once you reach FIRE (financial independence / retire early). After all, happiness is more than just whether or not you’re stuck in the rat race. If you’re not content with your life now, how will quitting your job make any difference? Hmm, yeah, I’m sorry… I’m not buying it. Now before you jump to lashing out at me in

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Total Wireless… Same Verizon Network, Less $$$

55 Comments / Product and Service Reviews, Saving / Jim @ Route To Retire / June 5, 2018

I debated quite a bit about writing this post. What makes a post on Total Wireless as a cell phone provider any better than the cable-cutting posts that you see all over the place? The last thing I want to do to you as my readers is provide a disservice by focusing too much on the small side of savings. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that this is something that you need to be

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