From Spain's Capital: Living Evenly Across The Lifespan
Back to food porn.
But at least you can get this—within minutes—in most American cities. However, you’ll pay considerably more. Details, along with other food highlights—and lowlights—from Madrid in a minute, but first…
For a review of what we’re doing here and what we’ve done, see the Never Retire archive.
This is post #7 of 20 for the month of February, from Madrid, Spain.
Today’s Never Retire checklist item—living evenly across the lifespan. In March, when I write 20 posts in 31 days, I will meticulously detail each of the 20 checklist items, including this integral component. Any potential jet lag be damned. I’m going for it!
The last Never Retire checklist item—#6, work less now so you can work less longer—leads naturally into living evenly across the lifespan.
On the traditional retirement course, we pack a whole lot of working and earning into a relatively short period of time. If we really go all-in on convention we also pack a whole lot of spending and accumulation of things (houses, cars, etc.) into a relatively short period of time.
If you determine you’ll Never Retire, chances are you will need to—and will want to—flow through life differently. Even unconventionally.
Post #7 in March details different ways to think about and structure living evenly across the lifespan.
Now—
Subpar coffee in Madrid
Great pizza and pasta—NYC style
An escape from relatively expensive prices
McDonald’s at the train station in Valencia
And how much it all cost.
I’ll also explain this image—
