If the stock market is any indication, nobody is safe to retire at 65 or even 70 anymore. Even if you used the stock market properly to grow your savings. If you are 60 right now and were still in the market, who knows when your portfolio will rebound enough to retire.
So you better stay healthy and live a really long time to ever have any retirement time.
I figure I'll be financially sound enough to retire at 93 and a half. That's just a guess, but check back with me in about 70 years and see if I'm right. When do you think you will be able to retire? And what do you base that on?
In the meantime, check out this list of some things to do to live to 100. It doesn't include the usual "become a decathlon athlete, eat nothing but tofu and carrots" type advice you normally see. It's practical stuff even a bum like me could follow. Well, most of it maybe.
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