A Surprising Way 2 Millennials Fast-Tracked Their Financial Progress
It doesn't take much Google searching to find out living in a high cost-of-living coastal city hurts the pocketbook. Whether it comes in the form of higher costs at the gas pump, more expensive groceries, or increasingly out-of-reach homes, living in high cost-of-living areas has become, well, increasingly expensive in the past decade.
Many in the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movement have espoused leaving these high-cost centers and "geoarbitraging" to a more affordable area. In effect, leveraging a high cost-of-living area's high incomes to accumulate a significant amount of savings and then relocating to a low cost-of-living area to enjoy your money.
If this is the case, then why did my wife and I
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