Though I’m not yet ready for retirement, a gal likes to daydream about the possibilities. Ideally, I’d like to retire on an upper-middle-class income — and I suspect I’m hardly alone. Like many future retirees — whether retirement arrives in the next few years or decades — I’d like to live like royalty. To help give shape to those daydreams, I wanted to find some locations where I could retire like a queen on an income that was comfortably middle class.
On a whim, I turned to ChatGPT for guidance. While ChatGPT is certainly not an ideal retirement planner — when it’s time for me to consider retirement more seriously, I’ll be sitting down with a financial planner who knows the ins and outs of my situation — it did provide a few loose ideas worth exploring.
