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FWIW, my sister had no interest in STEM, applied to Berkeley L&S, fooled around with a few majors (looked at English,, took classes in Landscape Design, which is actually in yet another separate school). Then in her second year she decided she wanted to try CS, took a class, ended up choosing th...

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Make sure you leverage it.

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Remember you’re not just buying a house, you’re building a lifestyle. So once you acquire the house, everything else you do has to be commensurate. Hope you’re prepared. Huh? I have a $1.9M house and drive a $20k Honda sedan. My neighbors have shinier toys, but really, it’s all a drop in the bucket...

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Absolutely fine. Percentages are meaningless - just because a house in the Bay Area is 5x in other area doesn't mean anything else is significantly more expensive. The leftover take-home will still be a very large amount of money, more than most American families live on total, even WITH housing, pl...

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This question actually has a simple answer. No, renting for life is not inherently a bad idea.

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Cost in London are a bit different than in the Italian countryside where they are giving away $1 houses, so hard to say. The only constant will be that medical care will be much cheaper and electronics a bit more expensive. I'd say other consumer goods like clothing tend to have somewhat cheaper opt...

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As long as you're leaving your friends/family behind already, I would look into places outside of the US.You will be able to find much better weather and much better value for price which will give you a lot of flexibility on other things.

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It is interesting that many bogleheads here believe that you cannot beat the market or get 100% returns. I went with a stock picking service last year that does earnings plays and made close to $36k on a $30k investment ($60k investment if you consider the extra $30k padding that I added to avoid m...

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Full disclosure: I paid $300 to learn that I won’t buy individual stocks ever again. Cheap lesson. :sharebeer I'm not sure that's the lesson. Quality individual stocks can be fun and rewarding. Do your research, make informed decisions, ignore the angry couch potatoes. Maybe that's not the lesson h...

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To be honest, no - haven't sold anything at all in years, but I don't hold bonds, so rebalancing is not as valuable - everything is pretty correlated. When put in new funds/dividends, I tend towards rebalancing, but not systematically.

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In an uninterrupted bull market, every high-risk strategy tends to work, so more and more people pile into them at higher and higher prices. The entire market is a little bit like GameStop right now, but fortunately it also has some real value hidden in there! Of course, we have no idea how the corr...

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There are worse outlets/communities for alienated young men, as we've seen recently. Financially ruinous for many, perhaps, but they seem to take it in stride.

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Better question: do the parents know they’re rich? Yup, pretty much no American below like the top 0.1% will admit to being rich, they are "upper middle class." If they have 9 million, then 10 million is the cutoff for being rich. If they make 400k per year, then 500k/year is the cutoff. ...

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Contrary to your post, everyone I meet is saying stocks are clearly overvalued, so maybe they are OK.

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Yeah, the plane may be OK (I'm no expert), but the airport ain't great. We had 15 people bunched up waiting to go through a single scanner at security. Took me 10 minutes between putting my stuff through the belt and getting to the other side (in which time someone had rifled through my wallet, inci...

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S0 20K/year for tuition/books/living expenses? Do all you posters saying "forget college, it's simply too expensive," realize that's not really any more than living costs/year WITHOUT going to college and getting a valuable degree? The only real opportunity cost is the terrible jobs availa...

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NTSXsim vs QMJsim As stated, these are simulated results so take with a grain of salt when setting your future expectations. Nice, thanks for that... I was just curious. It does seem rather impressive... It seems to have diverged significantly from S&P500 after 2000, but didn't do the same, so ...

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No couple has ever survived without one so far, but hey, maybe you'll be the first?

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Even at 3%, $42,000/year (almost tax-free) for a single person with no tethers to an expensive place gives you well-above average disposable income. Your main problem seems to be health insurance. It's expensive and getting more expensive, and you won't even have Social Security after retirement, wh...

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Briefly mentioned already, but traveling on a Canadian passport might prove a benefit. For example, before the current right wing governments (and quite likely again after), Brazil and Bolivia both required Americans to apply for a visa well in advance and pay fees, while Canadians could enter for f...

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I've been completely out of the US since mid-March. I was sure that the US would eventually be the hardest hit by coronavirus, and yet other markets had dropped more at the time since it hadn't really reached the US yet (crazy to think there were 20-something deaths per day, and it seemed significan...

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In the US you have a choice between very humid but not too expensive places (southeast) and not humid but expensive (California). CA has the best weather by far. I don't live there. My parents had a place in GA. I thought it was unliveable much of the year because of heat and humidity (although the...

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Southern Oregon, near Eugene (or perhaps Ashland). Mild weather 10 months a year (and even December and January will seem warm after Chicago), mix of university types, coastal hippie types, huntin', fishin' God/country types, a modest influx of Californians, mid-sized cities with amenities but no tr...

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I have experience from the kid's perspective - when I would have been in 6th grade and my sister would have been in kindergarten. It's a bit different from your plans, because while the family did travel extensively through France and Italy, we attended most of a school year in France (just creating...

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That has nothing to do with the long-term return of the investment, just about timing luck - a lot of the return of the small-cap must have been early on, when there was barely anything invested, so it was mostly irrelevant. It's possibility true that small-cap, being more volatile, is more prone to...

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Drove my 2001 Toyota Avalon with 200,000 miles on it 800 miles a few weeks ago (NorCal to Oregon). By mile 600, the check engine light came on, oil was bone dry. Over the rest of the trip and the drive back (a week later and a little longer, since we took a detour to Lassen), it sucked down quarts o...

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For me treating or rewarding myself would be buying something expense that I've wanted, but haven't allowed myself because of the price, not just seeking out something overpriced to spend money on. Obviously tastes vary, but the fact that the only reason you mentioned wanting it was the brand makes ...

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Seems strange to call Bogleheads staid and close-minded when they have embraced a 300% leverage portfolio.

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Long time Android/Google lover... don't LOVE this phone. Terrible in lots of ways... BUT I got it because 1) Update for 4-5 years 2) $400 (well less after rebates). Can't justify paying $800+ for an Android phone that get's updates for 2 years (sometimes less). Phone is fast, screen is crap but it ...

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I'm already morbidly obese. Now I just need to get my hands on some cash.

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Can those who are actually familiar with the Bay Area suggest where the OP should move to to get access to the "good" public schools? And how much it would cost to buy into those areas? I live in San Mateo, my house is $1.9M and my public high school is nowhere close to a "good"...

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As long as you are fully invested in any particular play, you are about as likely as not to beat the market, certainly over a single market cycle, which can last years (e.g. a good run for growth stocks, or small cap, or tech). The real danger is when people try to beat the market by timing it. Firs...

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mega317 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:02 pm I don't see the draw. In a casino you have a real chance of losing all of your money or doubling it in a few hours or less. That just ain't going to happen with a stock. Booooring.

You're not investing in the right stocks and/or options!

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... Now, while it's true it takes fewer high-income farmers than high-income physicians to produce 100 millionaires, the chance of becoming a millionaire is still much higher among physicians. Yes, but the farmers are much better at it individually. This isn’t a study on which profession creates th...

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In the morning in Silicon Valley, through https://sameday.costco.com/ there is always five-hour delivery (and they've always met this promise). I actually just ordered about 1 hour ago, and it already came. Sometimes if you try later in the day, it is "Flexible Next Day" delivery, which is...

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If you thought it was a good investment before, the longer the underperformance, the better an investment it becomes. If you don't understand that logic, you should definitely never have done anything besides buy total market, because you're part of that very large group of (to me, alien) investors ...

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At your age, why do you feel that you should have changed your long-term stock allocation due to a short-term market drop? Or do you think the pandemic is going to permanently change the market? Well, if he truly knew there would be a drop, he could have sold, then bought back in after the drop. Ma...

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I understand that I am far more likely to catch the seasonal flu than Covid 19. Therefore, I am going to the gym the same number of times I've always been going. I will continue to wipe down the equipment before and after use just as I've always done. The gym has provided wipe stations near the equ...

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I understand that I am far more likely to catch the seasonal flu than Covid 19. Therefore, I am going to the gym the same number of times I've always been going. I will continue to wipe down the equipment before and after use just as I've always done. The gym has provided wipe stations near the equ...

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No, I assume the market is relatively efficient in evaluating that.

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The UK will be a much safer place to be in the face of coronavirus than the US. Bottom line, the British health system is much more effective than the US in patient outcomes at the median and especially at the bottom. For a pandemic, this latter is particularly important, since a significant untreat...

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Doesn't really matter - you won't learn a foreign language in an American high school. That 4th academic year is worth a week or two of actual learning.

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I would say no situation in life is so bad as to recommend an accounting degree! And my wife had no interest in or training in fashion, yet now it has worked out that many of her largest and best-paying clients are in fashion, simply because there are a lot of massive, profitable companies wholly or...

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Tennis: A couple of rackets at $60 each last for years. Cans of balls for $2 a pop at Costco, use them at least 3 or 4 times each. String with a modern, playable co-poly, so almost never have to restring. Public courts are free.

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For me: Most expensive 1. College 2. Preschool 3. High school 4. Elementary school But then, I wasn't a greedy child (and my parents would have been willing to say no). But I have a relative in high school whose parents buy her all the expensive sneakers she wants (2 or 3 pairs per month), the lates...

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Any historical data is fairly out-of-date, I would say. For pretty much all of history, the average family would have 4+ kids. If 3 generations are 64+ great-grandchildren, dilution is pretty severe (even in primogeniture, the lucky son would still have some kind of duty to aids his less fortunate c...

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I have heard of similar issues, it is a real thing, depending on the overall construction of the lines, which you probably have no good way to learn about. Next best option is ask around to see if anyone else has upgraded, how many, and results, although I imagine approaching fellow tenants whom yo...

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A lot of confirmation bias, and it makes sense, because housing and health insurance is very visible. But other things have gotten more affordable over the years. Food (that is, staples) nowadays is so ridiculously cheap it is amazing anyone could starve.

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In Chile, I would recommend renting a 4-wheel drive and driving the Carretera Austral (completely virgin landscapes, glaciers, active volcanoes, cruises through fjords, waterfalls, wild hot springs, the marble cathedral, etc), ending at General Carrera Lake, then coming back through Argentina (Welsh...

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While traveling in Mexico, I made a withdrawal from the ATM of a major Mexican bank (using my Charles Schwab card). The next day, I happened to be looking at my transaction history, and I noticed that it showed three separate ATM withdrawals for the same amount! One of them had been reversed, but st...

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