Never Retire - Spend February With Me in Spain and Italy

As you might know, my partner and I will spend February in Spain and Italy.

The intinerary—Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid, Rome, Naples, Barcelona

For the month of February, I’m currently planning a month-long series of 20 Never Retire newsletter posts in 28 days.

Each post will include the following (in no particular order)—

• Photography from the cities we visit.

• Thoughts, observations, highlights from the cities we visit.

• A breakdown of what we spent each day to compare the cost of living in Spain and Italy to the United States and elsewhere.

• A Never Retire checklist item. A total of 20 practical money/work/life-related boxes you need to check to live the semi-retired life you wanna live now and for the duration.

Then, in March, I’ll do 20 posts in 31 days, meticulously detailing each of the 20 items.

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I appreciate all susbcriptions—free and paid—however quantity (total number of subscribers) isn’t the focus when operating a newsletter like this.

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And, as Ben Le Fort recently noted in his Making of a Millionaire newsletter:

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I’ll add a word to that—an engaged email subscriber. And, while I wholly agree on the value—or lack thereof—of social media “followers,” this is true of any content platform.

As noted the other day, I intend to write this newsletter until the day I die (or, as it will likely end up, a few days or so before I die!). I want it, along with my work on Medium, to be the sole bread and butter of my Never Retire strategy.

Speaking of Medium, I am about to expand my work on that platform as well. I’m starting a new Medium publication that isn’t about money. However, it’s about a broad area of interest that comes up frequently in my personal finance articles.