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> Working a $150K job for 7 years isn’t really a recipe for getting “wealthy”

It definitely is if you live in a LCOL area of an EU country. The author mentions he's Italian. So he gets health care and shit for free while being based in a country where it's very easy to live cheaply if you stay out of the big cities.

Definitely possible to save a ton of money while living well in those conditions.

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> he gets health care and shit for free

Not free - he's (probably) paying taxes on that remote income, and the maximal rate is rather high in those "shit for free" countries.

In his income bracket the tax rate in Italy is only 7% higher. And you can find pretty nice places to live in Italy with a COL similar to the rural US.

Taxes in Italy are absolutely insane.

You'd be better off moving to some other country with lower taxes, shitty public healthcare and then pay for a good private healthcare.

The cost will be a fraction of a good US private healthcare (the high cost is the main problem of US healthcare, not who's financing it).

Finally some good sense. Do you live in Italy by any chance? You didn't write the usual bullsh1t like "italy has a good social security net / good and free healthcare / you live well with few money" so I'd be surprised if you were a foreigner.

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