Living The Semi-Retired Life: Would $50,000 Change Your Life? Is $5,000 A Lot Of Money? Readers Respond.

And we add context around these important money questions

In a recent newsletter post about cash security, investing and parting with large sums of money, we ran a poll to see what some of our subscribers consider a large sum of money.

In today’s installment, we reveal the results and place some context around the questions and answers. For me, it can go both ways. It all depends on the situation.

Here are the results—

Now, some context. Some nuance. Because this isn’t as straightforward as the questions make it seem.