{"id":659856,"date":"2026-03-16T14:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/659856\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:31:16","slug":"20-expenses-that-used-to-be-more-affordable-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/659856\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Expenses That Used To Be More Affordable In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      4.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;Retirement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/1rgor3n\/comment\/o7t5yg1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ProfessorPickaxe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it happened in a single generation. My father retired at 54 with extremely generous benefits. His income now, 20 years later, still puts mine to shame. I&#8217;m 45, and I&#8217;ll probably never be able to retire. I&#8217;ve actually saved a decent amount twice, but it was almost completely wiped out by medical expenses. Whenever I mentioned that, people always love to say that I should not have cashed out my retirement; however, that would have led to me being homeless, so I really had no choice. I&#8217;ve restarted again, but it&#8217;s an uphill battle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/1rgor3n\/comment\/o7xoru6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SeasonPositive6771<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4. &#8220;Retirement.&#8221; \u2014ProfessorPickaxe &#8220;And it happened in a single generation. My father retired at 54 with extremely generous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":659857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[42329,64,2095,1165,255,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-659856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-bestofinternet-reddit","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-evergreen","11":"tag-lifestyle","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116239341138985841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}