Never Retire: Financial Planning, Currency, And A Bike Geek Project
Some thoughts on adapting financially when your life and move abroad
If all goes as hoped, planned and intended, we will launch the Friki de Bici Substack and merch store next week.
If all goes as hoped, planned and intended after that, we will start to integrate local content from Valencia with—any luck—the cooperation of local bike shop owners.
If all goes as hoped, planned and intended from there, the project will gain global traction after we spread the word in San Francisco, Barcelona, Paris and Amsterdam.
We’ll see what happens.
Friki de Bici is a truly a passion project that—as I describe in today’s newsletter—could play a pivotal role in my personal finance.
In fact, the role it might play—this financial consideration—is one of the biggest things people overlook when they move abroad. While I didn’t ignore the issue, I sure as heck didn’t think about and plan for it as comprehensively as I am now.
When I conceived and started developing Friki de Bici, it didn’t dawn on me that it would serve a purpose beyond making something I love work. And it goes beyond merely making more money. It’s about the currency you collect.
If this stuff just interests you or if you’re contemplating, planning or in the middle of a move, consider my situation and what I’m doing to try to improve and protect it as a way to inform your own.
When I wrote this post this morning, that’s how things looked. One euro is worth $1.14.