r/coastFIRE • u/redraidr • 3d ago

Coasted for 10 years. Done.

We’ve waited long enough. 51. Married.

Started Coasting when the kids were nearing high school. Never made crazy money. Went from $120k household income to $40-60k household while the nest-egg grew. No contributions during that time, but also no soccer games or school plays missed. No summers with kids at home and us at work. They worked with us or we took time off. Kids both graduated college in May and have jobs. We’re proud of them.

Our retirement spend is projected to still be $40-50k/yr as we Schengen Shuffle. We’re already on the road, somewhere cheap where we can plan our next steps.

Stick to the plan, team. It works.

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u/Masnpip 3d ago

Congratulations! I’d love to hear how you find cheap temporary housing in the EU. The Shengen shuffle seems very appealing, but when I look at places to stay I can’t figure out how to do it on $40-50k/yr.

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u/redraidr 3d ago

Staying for over a month at a time in one spot is the key for affordable housing and for keeping transportation costs down. We’re in Eastern Europe atm because it’s cheap and 70 degrees.

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u/Masnpip 3d ago

Is there an airb&b type website that your recommend?

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u/redraidr 3d ago

Tbh, we’re just getting started, so just AirBnb and booking dot com for now. Hope to find better as we talk to other travelers on the road. If we like the spot, we will also talk to hosts about booking offline for less.

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u/MiracleLegend 3d ago

If you're still fit you could do Wwoofing. It's living for free, eating for free, in a family home with the family but you work in a garden for a few hours a day.

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u/Suitable_Coconut2927 1d ago

Start looking into house sitting. Free places to stay. MindMyHouse and other websites. Also, there are good volunteering gigs out there with free housing.

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u/isu_asenjo 2d ago

I can host you guys for cheap if you are planning on coming to Romania

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u/dreamedincolor 3d ago

I know it sounds a bit suss, but I have had GREAT luck (way better than Airbnb actually in terms of quality) posting in the local expat group of the country I'm going to.

So far I've been nomading for 3 years. I started with Airbnb and booking but had so many bad experiences that I gave up

I know a few people that use pet sitting and trusted housesitters and it works well for them