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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people here have and anticipate this much, what about the rest of the country.  I am linking this thread to the regional papers.[/quote]

This thread is comical.   I still do t understand what these people are going to be spending all that money on.  [/quote]

I'm the OP.  I said $6mm.  Here's how I get there:

3x kids under 4.  Assume 14-18 years from now, 4-year college will cost close to $200k/year = $800k per kid = $2.4mm.  
I want (don't need, but this is an aspirational post) a nice vacation home = $1mm. 
I want to retire by 55 ... assuming $80k min per year living expenses and 30+ years of coverage = $2.4mm.

That's $5.8mm and there's plenty left I'd like to do, let alone leave some for my kids or hopefully grandkids.  Now, that doesn't assume any investment return on that money, but then again, with inflation that $80k/year could easily be more like $200k in 20 years.

I don't think any of that is comical at all ... and [i][b]certainly not likely to raise some firestorm of controversy as implied by the PP that wants to "link this thread to regional papers."[/[/b][/i]quote]

:roll:  Yes, right, because most people around the country are sitting around during a work day debating on a public forum whether or not they are on track to save between $6-25 million.  They don't call The Beltway "living inside the bubble" for nothing!  :roll:[/quote]

Who is "they?"  I've not heard that expression. But I did grow up in TN, in a very modest area, and $5mm+ does not strike me as outrageous at all. Fortunate, yes, of course.  But there are fortunate people everywhere and a few million in savings is not that rare. [/quote]

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