#BoltHole #ClimateChange #Survival I am a 72 year old "self funded retiree". That sounds like I have a stack of money, but that is BS for me and probably a lot of other people. I don't qualify for a pension because I bought a second property 20 years ago, that my son has been living in ever since, paying a modest rent. I am not going to kick him out onto the street..
So, no pension for me, except for $460 month from the UK from when I paid tax there, 40 years ago! We manage, because we own our home and had the foresight to go Solar years ago when the gov paid us 50cents a Kwh as a feed in tariff. So - no rent and no power bills - the two financial killers in 2022. But we run our little economy on the smell of an oil rag, get a lot of satisfaction eating some home grown veggies when they grow, and finding bargains in Op-shops.
This is the other side of the Boomer phenomenon.