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    Salary vs Lifestyle

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    AUTHOR: kt2062 on 6/23/2024
    FIRST: Jonathan Clements on 6/23   |   RECENT: kt2062 on 7/1

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    • Well Dana, shame on you for not having a crystal ball! :-) Maybe that golf course would have gone under and you would have lost everything. My parents died in 2007 and 2008. Our inheritance plummeted since my father worked for Ma Bell (AT&T) and had a lot of AT&T stocks. I sold everything and wrote off the losses on my taxes. Should I have held those stocks? I never looked back....

      Post: Misplaced Trust

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    • The fact that Vanguards S&P 500 fund is so heavily weighted in tech stocks concerns me. What do you think of the equally weighted Vanguard index funds?

      Post: My Favorite Fund

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    • Dana, which CCRC did she move into? I live in California and have looked at different CCRCs. White Sands in La Jolla got good ratings by USNews.com.There is Piedmont Gardens in Oakland that got a good rating and is also owned by Human Good .

      Post: A CCRC is not an Assisted Living facility

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    • There is a "Thai Forest Tradition" where the Buddhist monks engage in a practice known as “tudong” (Thai; meaning “austere practice”) in which they wander on foot through the countryside, either on pilgrimage or in search of solitary retreat places in nature. They meditate, eat, and sleep in the forest.

      Post: Lines in the Sand by Jonathan Clements

      Link to comment from August 11, 2024

    • I agree with you Matt. I only regret I had enough money back then to invest in Berkshire Hathaway A stock. However my parents died during that period and left the majority of their stocks which were invested in AT&T--my dad's employer stock. I couldn't stomach having so much invested in one stock so I had to sell at a loss. But I was able to write that loss of for many years. Since I will have a defined benefit contribution retirement, I keep almost all my investments in stocks. Like Jonathan says, having a decent pension along with Social Security is like having enough bonds.

      Post: A Big Question For Me Heading Into Retirement

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    • I'm considering converting part of my traditional IRA to a ROTH IRA.

      Post: Staying the Course by Jonathan Clements

      Link to comment from August 5, 2024

    • I used to get all my gas at Costco which helped increase my rebate. But now I have an Electric Vehicle. Their website says the gas rebate includes both gas and EV but I don't believe they have EV chargers.

      Post: Best/worst deals at Costco

      Link to comment from July 15, 2024

    • That's interesting. The study reports that this mutation occurs accounts for about10–15% of diagnosed cases in Caucasians and about 45–50% of Asian populations and in nonsmoking women. I wonder if it is inheritable?

      Post: Looking Different

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    • Having been on both sides of the doctor-patient equation I know how helpless and hopeless it can feel on the patient side. It helps empower patients to give them information and options. Including them in decision-making instead of dictating the plan to them is different from what you are implying.

      Post: Looking Different

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    • I apologize, I wasn't trying to be intrusive. I'm sure you are getting excellent care. When my mother had lung cancer, no one mentioned clinical trials, so it's something I bring up.

      Post: Looking Different

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