Tag: cost of living USA
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Watching Coachella While Thinking About the State of the World
It’s already been four months since we entered 2026, and the world seems to be moving in a more and more uneasy direction. From what I personally feel, gas prices have become the “new normal” at around $5 per gallon, and sometimes even creeping into the $6 range. There are constant headlines like “attacks on…
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Ruthless America: How Much Do You Actually Need to Retire?
Recently, I clicked on an article at work titled something like “How much do you need to retire comfortably?”And ever since that one click, my algorithm has completely locked onto the topic.Now my feed is full of retirement articles popping up one after another, like mushrooms after the rain. As I kept reading, I saw…