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Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

If you earn 250k per year for 20 years or 167k per year for 30 years you will have earned the 5 million for your American dream. With earnings from sales of real estate and possible income from sale of a business it seems like something that can be acheived.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

That's assuming you spend $0 on things such as food, clothing, shelter, utilities, cellular service, transportation, property tax, income tax, or anything else.

I mean I suppose you can do that, if you have someone else to pay all your bills and buy you all your needs for 20 years.

If you can't live the dream on a quarter mil per year, you have a spending problem, not an income problem.

Go read The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley