Good on the author for making use of these tax benefits. I don't see anything out of the ordinary here. For govt workers, the 457 benefit seems really nice. Hav

Good on the author for making use of these tax benefits. I don't see anything out of the ordinary here. For govt workers, the 457 benefit seems really nice. Having kids in an LCOL area seems to be very doable. I imagine the same article but for 10x the income would be "interesting". As a side note, it's worth indicating that if you work at FAANGs and other types of companies, you can use the mega backdoor Roth IRA method [1] to put up to $38k away in retirement accounts a year. [1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/mega-backdoor-roths-work https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/mega-backdoor-r...