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The Retirement Newsletter: The Great Retirement
Issue Number: -123 — is there a boom in the number of people retiring?
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This week, I am going to look at something a bit different — The Great Retirement.
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“The Great Retirement”
The other week I was at a big outdoor event in the UK where I met up with some friends, and we ended up chatting about — you guessed it — retirement. (I remember when I used to go to the same event and my friends talked about their great new jobs and their planned careers. How things have changed!)
Anyway, in our conversations, one thing struck me. I realised that my friends who are 5 to 10 years younger than me were talking about retiring. This struck me as odd. Friends in their early 50s were talking about retiring in the next couple of years. They were talking about retiring as soon as they could.
I pushed some of them on the question of early retirement and why they were considering it, and their answer surprised me — COVID-19.
