It's Way Too Easy to Fall into This Retirement Trap

With times as "eventful" as these, it's understandable you may have missed a peculiar, oddly specific subgenre of news story making the rounds these days.

I'm talking about the "early retirement gone horribly wrong" story. It's related to, but distinct from, America's better-known retirement crisis.

So, the story goes something like this: A young person works hard, makes the right moves, and, in short order, banks enough to retire in their 30s. They walk away from the rat race to travel the world - whatever they want to do, really.

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An American success story, right? Well... here's where the "gone horribly wrong" part comes in.