A Purple Life: A Retiree Case Study

Retiring early on an modest income can seem a bit out of reach, but a case study with A Purple Life allows us to see the numbers of what makes this possible. Salary negotiation, domestic geoarbitrage, and simple living are your friend.
If you want to find out more on this story visit Purple's blog at apurplelife.com/
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[@thinktransnational]

This was a very awesome interview! I've passed by Purple's blogs a few times, but never in too much depth. Didn't realize our stories were so similar. I'm a Black woman from Atlanta, currently living in Seattle, intentionally pursuing fire, but after listening to this, dang I feel like I'm doing something wrong. My yearly expenses here over the last two years have averaged to be about $27,600 and I thought that was me living frugally. I have an FI age goal of 40 and an FI# goal of $875,000, but I need to go look my these numbers again. I wonder if I lowered my FI# a bit and I tried to cut my expenses by another $5,000-$6,000 if I could retire at 35 and not 40? It's something to consider and now I know to be a true possibility after hearing Purple's story!

[@opaljohnson7428]

Wow this seems soo long ago. The country has completely changed in the last 2 weeks

[@financeoholic]

I follow Purplelife on Twitter and it's great to see an interview with her on Choose FI

[@ChooseFI]

She's pretty awesome. We're really excited that she FIRE'd. Hope all is well with you and yours!

[@tushargaddi6640]

Nice to see how she broke down the numbers like that. That'll help a lot of people I'm sure. I wonder how she reacted to the market dropping due to the Corona Virus?

[@gabriellarosa5015]

What a great talk!! It is amazing to listen to these experiences.

[@ronwhiteleo3352]

very inspiring!!!

[@dawnmurray6945]

Excellent interview

[@ChooseFI]

Thanks!

[@TheOne-vf2yw]

Wonder how she felt in March of 2020. Hopefully didn’t panic sell....

[@amafid]

😀

[@amafid]

36:01 Fortnite!

[@dmoon9037]

Although I am “FIWMswdev”, it must be an act of fortune that I have yet to meet another FIWMswdev. Where do “they”/we congregate to chat FI code? 😎

[@amafid]

37:17 Jinx!

[@davidgrisco1939]

Would be curious on a follow-up if she has a change of heart on the W2 departure date.

[@apurplelife]

@@davidgrisco1939 Hi - No change of heart over here despite the correction. Full steam ahead!

[@TonyCook7]

Man I like you guys but that intro was all over the place

[@ChooseFI]

Im clearly biased ;) but I thought it was awesome!!! Thanks for listening