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Old 04-10-2025, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Cliff Fr View Post
How do the majority of workers who have hardly any savings and only social security ever retire? They also have no civil service pension or military pension.
Don't eat out much. No vacations. Groceries from Aldi instead of Publix, and rice/beans instead of steak. Inexpensive housing, shared if necessary.

It can be done, since most people have to do it. The Villages is not the real world.