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If you're unemployed with no intention of working again, is that not retired?

• magduf 8y ago
  So this guy has a young, school-aged child or children, and doesn't have to work to continue to bring in an income to support this family? That's an extremely rare case, if so. And even here, if you have that much money saved, why on earth would you go to the US? The public schools here are terrible, generally the worst in the developed world (some of them in extremely high-cost-of-living locales are ok). Of course, you could send your kids to private schools, but if you can afford to not work at all, live in the US, and send your kids to really nice private schools, then by definition you are extremely wealthy.
  • xapata 8y ago
    > extremely wealthy Many wealthy people don't realize how unusual they are, because all their friends are the same. It's like the story of a PhD student joyously exclaiming he was graduating and the professor replies, "That's nothing special. All my friends are PhDs." On the opposite end of things, a friend of mine refused to believe the proportion of US citizens who are millionaires. He explained that he knew about 1,000 people in his hometown and none of them were millionaires. I couldn't convince him that things were different in other places, partly because of the number of beers we'd drunk that night.