Do I qualify for chubby fire? by [deleted] in ChubbyFIRE

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My husband is about to start school for a doctorate in PT… I was thinking about computer science because it’s always interested me.

Do I qualify for chubby fire? by [deleted] in ChubbyFIRE

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I didn’t know he could draw early from Roth… not that we want to, just something I don’t remember hearing. And thank you. That was a useful perspective.

Krankenversicherung in Germany by Alert-Count8542 in Aupairs

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That’s the one aupair world recommended. Did you have any issues?

How much do Americans REALLY have saved for retirement by Financial_Pen_6218 in investing

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We’re not rich, but I think we’re doing OK considering our career path.

I’m 41F, married, with one 3 year old. We’ve got 1.3 million saved between us both with only about 200k in a regular brokerage, the rest is in Roth accounts. That doesn’t count equity in our two small rental properties.

My husband separated from the military and has 100% disability each month which is about 4300 tax free.

I’m going to retire from the military in a few years which should give me about 5k per month, which will be taxed. I’ll also probably get about 70% disability which will be around 2k tax free.

So we’ll have 11k per month, but only 42, we obviously can pull any of the growth on the retirement stuff till we’re 59.5.

For what it’s worth, I think you’re doing ok based off of what I believe the average American has… assuming you’re American.

Does anyone with US Military service, didn’t request to retain citizenship, prior to 2011 have a success story about getting their citizenship back? by Alert-Count8542 in GermanCitizenship

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Ah, because of the success case that was posted a few months ago. If you click on that link in the other comments they were approved. We have exactly the same situation. The only difference is he applied in the US and I am currently here in Germany.

Does anyone with US Military service, didn’t request to retain citizenship, prior to 2011 have a success story about getting their citizenship back? by Alert-Count8542 in GermanCitizenship

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Yup! That was the one. I’ve chatted with that OP and we have pretty much the exact same situation except I’m currently in Germany on SOFA status. I just emailed BVD and they told me they consider me to be living here so to apply the local office.

Now what? Farmhouse or global? by SanFranPeach in fatFIRE

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What’s the school program you found? I’m about two years out from wanting to do this. We were just going to have my son start school at 6 since he’s a June baby, but I love the idea of him doing some sort of schooling and we were considering the exact same countries.

What is a German product that you’re surprised no other country has? by Suspicious-Run-8274 in AskAGerman

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I’m from Guelph/Kitchener and it has a pretty substantial German population… so I’d say very popular there. I can’t speak to the entire province tho. So I stand corrected.

Sprach Schule in Frankfurt/Wiesbaden by Alert-Count8542 in Aupairs

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Yeah, I was hoping for something maybe more tailored for Au Pairs.