Early Retirement Blog

Mama’s Says The Recession is Over! While economists who couldn’t predict the economic collapse, spend their time studying dubious government data to figure out if the recession is over, I use a much more accurate indicator of economic conditions to make my determination.   The line outside Mama’s Restaurant. Mama’s is a very popular brunch [...]

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, in presenting the City’s $6.6 billion budget for the coming year, announced an additional 1,600 San Francisco City employee layoffs.   This is in addition to the San Francisco City layoffs that have already occurred. Since before the first San Francisco City layoffs were announced late last year, I attempted [...]

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I am attending Start-Up Weekend San Francisco 09. An event that brings together people who want to create start-ups with venture capitalists who want to fund start-ups.  The reason I’m there, is to find web developers and marketing professionals, who want to help take Green Retirement to the next level – to make Green Retirement [...]

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   Not This Christmas – I’m Going Green! After 44 continuous years of celebrating Christmas with a tree, this year I have decided not to have a Christmas tree, I’m celebrating a Green Christmas.  Last year I was shocked by the number of discarded Christmas trees, that littered the sidewalks of my San Francisco neighborhood, [...]

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 I’m Sorry San Francisco To the 400 San Francisco city employees, who will soon face layoffs, I’m sorry.  I am trying to save your jobs, and I am failing, your leaders are not responding to my offer to prevent layoffs in San Francisco.  Starting over a month ago, I have written to the city’s Green [...]

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 Thanksgiving on Alcatraz 2008 A Green Thanksgiving.  No turkey, stuffing, gravy, or cranberry sauce. Instead, at 6:00 a.m in the cold damp November air of San Francisco, we board a crowded ferry bound for Alcatraz Island.  On this day, as on every Thanksgiving day, the island belongs once again to Native Americans. Old warriors, of [...]

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Searching for a San Francisco retirement planner, you will encounter good financial and retirement planners, and not so good retirement planners.  However, all San Francisco retirement planners share one thing in common, the formula they use to calculate your retirement savings needs is wrong. Traditional retirement planners in San Francisco, or any other city in [...]

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 Save Bus 39 North Beach Telegraph Hill If you are a retired senior living in North Beach or Telegraph Hill, or you know someone who lives in the neighborhood, it is imperative that you act now to save bus route 39 service.  Your ability to continue living in the North Beach Telegraph Hill area is [...]

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Retire in San Francisco with less than $400,000 in savings! The experiment to discover how much savings is required to retire in one of the Top Ten Neighborhoods in the nation, in the second most expensive city in the U.S., is over and the results are illuminating. Retiring in North Beach / Telegraph Hill San [...]

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Italian is still spoken in the cafes and restaurants of North Beach, a San Francisco neighborhood, rated one of the top ten neighborhoods in the U.S.A. First settled by Italian immigrants in the 1880′s, North Beach has retained it’s European flavor, and is home to many French and Germans, as well as Italians. Nestled in [...]

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