>>it's fairly possible there is a big international difference
I think I've heard the occasional Canadian saying they like having supplemental health insurance because it gets them a private room at the hospital rather than being in a ward. Maybe that's the analogue.
(...which I suppose would probably be valuable, given how much trouble I have sleeping in the same room with snoring people. Maybe not $410-every-month valuable, but OTOH I'm not a 55-year-old couple trying to transition into a personal private plan without having their health re-checked.)
((I've tried earplugs, and they give me nightmares about waking up and taking the earplugs out and finding my ears are still clogged. I was prone to earwax clogs as a child (and they *were* often triggered by plugging my ear with something else!), and I was always worried that one day they would happen in both ears at once and I'd end up nearly deaf for ~3 weeks. I guess it left a mark on my psyche.
...I have *not* yet tried sleeping through other people's snoring with acoustic earmuffs on, though I do own a pair. It would probably be uncomfortable, but it might be better on net than not wearing them.))
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>>I like living in interesting places (give or take covid-trauma) but I am an awful tourist so holidays are much less appealing to me. Maybe if I end up with a much larger retirement fund than expected I would be able to afford rent? IDK. But it's a thing that sounds appealing to do. I think most people have stuff like that.
It does seem like most people have something like that, which means a lot of them talk about how to pull stuff like that off on a more achievable quantity of retirement fund. I haven't actively pursued that line of research since my interest would be purely academic, but you might find it worth some digging.
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I think I've heard the occasional Canadian saying they like having supplemental health insurance because it gets them a private room at the hospital rather than being in a ward. Maybe that's the analogue.
(...which I suppose would probably be valuable, given how much trouble I have sleeping in the same room with snoring people. Maybe not $410-every-month valuable, but OTOH I'm not a 55-year-old couple trying to transition into a personal private plan without having their health re-checked.)
((I've tried earplugs, and they give me nightmares about waking up and taking the earplugs out and finding my ears are still clogged. I was prone to earwax clogs as a child (and they *were* often triggered by plugging my ear with something else!), and I was always worried that one day they would happen in both ears at once and I'd end up nearly deaf for ~3 weeks. I guess it left a mark on my psyche.
...I have *not* yet tried sleeping through other people's snoring with acoustic earmuffs on, though I do own a pair. It would probably be uncomfortable, but it might be better on net than not wearing them.))
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>>I like living in interesting places (give or take covid-trauma) but I am an awful tourist so holidays are much less appealing to me. Maybe if I end up with a much larger retirement fund than expected I would be able to afford rent? IDK. But it's a thing that sounds appealing to do. I think most people have stuff like that.
It does seem like most people have something like that, which means a lot of them talk about how to pull stuff like that off on a more achievable quantity of retirement fund. I haven't actively pursued that line of research since my interest would be purely academic, but you might find it worth some digging.