{"id":349107,"date":"2026-03-16T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349107\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:23:08","slug":"20-expenses-that-used-to-be-more-affordable-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349107\/","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":2,"featured_media":349108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22531,72,777,176,61,60,166,174,175],"class_list":["post-349107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-bestofinternet-reddit","tag-business","tag-evergreen","tag-finance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lifestyle","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}