Early retirement?

[Bear]

Anyone planning this? ...

Alistair Darling

[TheFaQQer]

I just intend to inherit the family fortune, and then I'll stop work.

[tay]

Don't you feel terribly guilty that you financially raped the UK, sold some muppet a pup at the top of a property bubble, and won't be giving back to the UK like a proper immigrant?

Nope. All UK citizens should be annoyed at me for being such a cad and a bounder.

Sorry chaps

[tay]

I just intend to inherit the family fortune, and then I'll stop work.

Did I mention that the wife is an only child, her parents are absolutely loaded and NZ doesnt have inheritance or capital gains tax?

Not gloating as very little of my ability to retire comes from skill or hard work on my behalf. I didnt have a master plan of ecnomic brilliance... just lucky so far. Why do I feel karma sneaking up behind me with a basball bat?

[ChimpMaster]

Tay - I was feeling a little envious until you mentioned NZ. I mean why move out to the middle of nowhere on a island that no one give a tulipe about!

[To BI or not to BI?]

Tay - I was feeling a little envious until you mentioned NZ. I mean why move out to the middle of nowhere on a island that no one give a tulipe about!

I guess that's what happens when you spend too much time in the UK

[tay]

Tay - I was feeling a little envious until you mentioned NZ. I mean why move out to the middle of nowhere on a island that no one give a tulipe about!

a) Its my home.

b) Because its in the middle of nowhere on a island that no one give a tulipe about! I like being a long long way from Muslim extremists, Iraq wars, tube bombings and Asylum seekers.

[sasguru]

I'd like to retire at 45. or at least semi retire. (I'm nearly 33 now)


House paid off at 40 (max - more likely to be 37/8).
5 or so years to plough money into various schemes.

My other half's a contractor too, so we reckon we could scurry half a mil away between us in 5 years, which woud be very nice.

It might not be enough to completely retire...but it might take us down to working say 3 months of the year.
It depends obviously on how greedy we get, and/or if we have kids.

Good plan. Am there or thereabouts already. Kids would completely screw it though ...

[SallyAnne]

Good plan. Am there or thereabouts already. Kids would completely screw it though ...

Are you not having kids SAS? Does MrsG not fancy any? (Or does she like the Prada bags and Manolo's better? )

[tay]

I dont think SAS's combat missions use live rounds......