Green Retirement Blog

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 second most expensive city in the nation, for under a million dollars.Perhaps there is no better method, to show how conservation enables you to retire on less savings, than to use the most dramatic example possible. Employing the philosophy, math, software, and tools of Green Retirement Planning, beginning January 1st, 2008, I will track my family expenses. I am confident that we can retire in San Francisco with under $1 million dollars. Exactly how much is needed, to retire in San Francisco, we’ll find out as we go along.Today we moved into our Telegraph Hill / North Beach apartment. From our bedroom window, we have an incredible view of the San Francisco Bay, and the famous wild parrots of Telegraph Hill make their home here as well. This is not cardboard box retirement. I’m excited to be able to share with you this mini-adventure. In addition to tracking our budget, and measuring the cost of retirement in San Francisco, I will be taking photos, videos, and writing about my discoveries.

In the end, I hope you will discover that their is an alternative in retirement planning, that you don’t have to be rich to retire well. That the solution to saving your retirement, is the same solution, to saving the planet. And that if I am able to show you how to retire in San Francisco, for under a million dollars, you may begin to imagine the possibilities for yourself!

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