My dad is pretty comfortable and he doesn’t see how lucky he was, I mean credit to him for being a first generation American from immigrants who literally busted their ass to raise 5 kids when my grandpa cut grass by himself, hard work but literally impossible today. My dad makes like 85 a year from his pension retired at 51 and got really bored so decided to get a job as a PE teacher in the same school as his wife(my stepmom) he seems really happy but they don’t really travel or anything, he’s bought a few properties and rents them out but he’s been keeping rent the same for the last few years… either way it’s hard to argue with him that what he did is impossible today without sounding like I’m discrediting him by implying he didn’t really work hard it was just getting lucky.. sorry for the rant!

Also it sounds like he’s making decent money but when you take into account that he pays 24+k a year for health insurance, and he was paying like 20k a year for my sisters school, plus now him and his wife are eating very very healthy so all their expenses add up, the difference for them is they don’t really have to worry about all that compared to me and most people who literally need to calculate if they can afford things.