In many industries, spring is the season for annual raises and bonuses, which is followed by the season of tax refunds. While these potential income sources are certainly nice, they can have an unintended negative consequence on your overall financial situation: lifestyle inflation.
Call me naively positive, but when I first ran across the Financial Independence / Retire Early community, I thought it was cool. It also reminded me of some other bloggers and podcasters I follow.
Even though travel has changed significantly since I went on my first international trip 11 years ago, the most common question I get asked about travel has remained the same since the very beginning: how do I afford it?
It sometimes takes new people I meet awhile to learn that I write this blog. And when they do, they do something in common that is so odd to me I felt compelled to write a post about it: they start justifying why they don't travel.
It’s high time I start writing what I obviously want to be writing. Which appears to have expanded from just travel to include some content about business and entrepreneurship too.
So far in 2018, I’ve been reading blogs, listening to podcasts, taking a finance class on Coursera, talking to friends and generally doing whatever I can to get smarter about money. So I figured it was time for an update about some of the things I’ve been learning.
In May 2018, I'm headed back to London, England for my fifth visit and counting. But I'm also going to Montreal, Canada. In the same 10 day trip. From Nashville, Tennessee.