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by scarface_74 452 days ago
Travel for vacations - my wife and I heavily downsized our fixed expenses between 2020-2022 and my youngest (step)son graduated high school. I started working remotely and I was able to “retire my wife” when she was 44 and I was 46 in 2020. We are knocking places off our bucket list 8-12 trips a year (nothing fancy or extravagant, extended weekend trips mostly)

Travel to see and with friends and family - my friends and family are mostly in the city where I grew up or the city where I moved to after I graduated and lived until a couple of years ago. I spend a fair amount of time in both cuties

Exercise - I wouldn’t call it “fun”. But it is necessary to stay in shape at 50.

Learn Spanish - we are thinking about establishing residency in either Costa Rica or Panama eventually.

Balance - I shut my computer down and don’t think about work or anything else computer related when it’s time to clock out. It’s “fun” not to worry about keeping up or getting ahead outside of office hours.

We moved to the “tourist capital of the US” and we will eventually start doing things locally.