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This is my 4th post in this sub, so I (43M) won't go into my backstory. here is a link for those who want my origin story.

I did it! I officially FIRE'd and it feels weird and great.

In my last post I mentioned that I was in my "One More Year" phase. Over the past year, I did all the things that I felt I needed to do before retiring. I accidentally followed The Gambler: I bought a Japanese car and put a new roof on the paid off house. I also got all known repairs done on the house, funded the kids college accounts a little more, graduated from therapy, and got my last kid out of daycare. As I was doing all this, one more year paid off big time. My company was sold and I got a literal years salary as a bonus. So one more year effectively paid out like 3 (due to 50% savings rate)

I currently have ~2.3m invested

1.4m 401ks

100k ROTH

600k brokerage

200k cash/CDs

Keeping round numbers, 4% withdrawal gives me an income of 90k/year. I'm a little apprehensive because I haven't lived on 90k/year before.…

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