Retirement Blog

 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 threatened.
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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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It’s the end of week 2, of how to retire in San Francisco with less than a million dollars, let’s take a look at the budget and see how we are doing:

Uh Oh!
Still a thousand dollars left in our budget, with our two major expenses (housing and health-care), out of the way. It’s looking good…but […]

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You may think that with less than a million dollars, to retire in San Francisco, you’ll have to live in a crime and drug infested neighborhood. Wrong, wrong, wrong! With less than a million dollars, you can retire in the nicest neighborhood in San Francisco, perhaps one of the nicest in the nation […]

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The easiest part of this experiment, retiring in San Francisco with less than a million dollars, is calculating the maximum monthly budget. Using the retirement formula, contained in the Free Retirement Guide, I know that a million dollars gives me a monthly budget of $3,333.  So now, we are going to find out, not only […]

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Starting January 1st, 2008, I am going to show how you can, retire in San Francisco with less than a million dollars. Better yet, retire in the best neighborhood in San Francisco, with less than a million dollars. That’s right, you can retire in one of the ten best neighborhoods in the country, in the […]

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