If you lost your job today how long could your savings keep you afloat?

[itsannalee]

[NaultD]

Forever.

Parents died and left a half million in property that I sold in probate. Still working my day job no different then when I was at 20 but zero worries going hungry even after turning 100.

Very modesty and if we can get a universal health care system for USA. I can move somewhere cheaper. Being Alaskan native with free healthcare is good an all but I want to live by the ocean.

[Red_Arrow]

There are places in Alaska where you can move and keep your free healthcare and live by the ocean.

[NaultD]

@Red_Arrow Ancor town sure i guess. Just visited for AFN. It's just not the same having to move THERE vs wanting to move anywhere else that's possible. Get what I mean?

[JamesMillerOwl]

@Red_Arrow Really? Please tell me more!

[Red_Arrow]

@naultd Some people who live in Florida want to move to Nebraska and live by the ocean. Not realistic!

[Red_Arrow]

@JamesMillerOwl Tell you more about what?

[JamesMillerOwl]

@Red_Arrow Places in Alaska where you can move and keep your free Healthcare and live by the ocean. Is it affordable?

[NaultD]

@JamesMillerOwl no no you got to have native American blood. So born from a native alaskan native parent to have free healthcare.

So historically the Indians got fucked over. "Save the man kill the the Indian."

https://youtu.be/UGqWRyBCHhw?si=bTposKW_LIkjYOry

That Was a thing for a hundred years but alaska wasn't a state yet. So alaskan native leaders made it a point to not to have reservations and created alaskan native corporations like DOYON and NORTH SLOPE. They are like independent country's inside usa territory and native alaskan are share holders and get benefits like a yearly check of profits dividends and healthcare.

You could move and marry someone one who is a share holder and your kids would have the benefits.

[NaultD]

@JamesMillerOwl if you just move anywhere in alaska and become resident for over 2 years you are eligible to get the permanent dividend fund. $1000 bucks first of October just filling out a internet form.

Alaska is the lowest tax burden in the union and a yearly UBI.

[AviatorTom]

I'm retired now. When I was working though, I was fortunate to almost always have enough money to last 6 months if I lost my job. Never had to use that. The only time I lost my job, I had another one, at more pay, 2 months later.

[midnightmoon05]

We have enough till we died and more left over for kids school and more to help them with their first home.
the rest is on them.
If we don’t travel… we can help them all with their first home with cash… but it should work like that , they need to work to get that offer.

[RandomGirl42]

I have absolute job security. I work for my parents so if they fired me I would have to move back in with them. 😊 And there's about 30 bucks in my savings. 😳

[itsannalee]

Haha 🤣

[RandomGirl42]

And TY for the MHO 😊

[Chazmatazz269]

Probably a year. Longer if i moved to a less expensive area. I might even have family that would help me out.

[mysteriousNicholas]

@itsannalee it's a non issue ; here in my country welfare exists while looking for work. As most countries do

[loveslongnails]

My "job" is self perpetuating, so long as you or someone like you has a job and needs a place to live. If my job goes away, nobody has a job.

[Staximus]

I have 2 jobs, and I could quit or be fired from one and still pay my monthly bills with the other. If I got fired from both, I think I could last about a year on my savings

[Kelly6]

@itsannalee forever because i invest all my savings

[mysteriousNicholas]

@Kelly6 lol but are they always Spanish or always best breast related stocks ahahahaha shares lol

[Alex-Snow]

I'm in college and work part-time for some spending money. Fortunately my meals and housing are covered.

[KostasKouvalis]

I did 2 years ago. Had I not spent half my savings on travel, I could've survived like 5 years. But I still have enough to survive at least 2.

[exitseven]

It is hard to say but I think I could lice frugally for the next 50 years

[jamesgoldman]

If my business closed, I could remain liquid until zero

2.5 years

[Xawyx-2]

At least several years alone, but actually much longer, considering I live with my parents.

[WonderingManII]

I did lose my job, and I don't know how long my savings will keep me afloat.

[TallAnon]

I lost my job last year and I had about 1.5 year before I would have to move. I used about 5 months of that.

[BCRanger10]

We'd probably be good for about five or six months.

[Ironco]

I'd be ok, I'm getting ready to retire anyways.

[Shiprex]

I reckon I'd be fine for 2 years. Maybe more depending on how I lived

[RedInnocent69]

A couple of months, without accessing retirement savings, but my assumption is I’d be packaged out which would carry me over a year

[hafinjun]

Roughly the time equivalent to a boat made of paper mache.

[NordicInScandinavia]

About 2 years.

[guesswhereivebeen]

If I were to go full on penny pinching probably a year…

[OneViewpoint]

Far beyond any reasonable life expectancy.

[Ariesman81]

Dividends are a beautiful thing

[JesseP1nk]

Like over a year.

[beefcakebradybatson]

I'm an Old Age pensioner.

[userss3]

Between 8-16 months depends changes expenses

[Agape93]

Between a year to about 14 months.

[DJB72]

Glug... glug... glug...

[abc3643]

47 minutes

[Jennz6]

I will never be completely broke

[slatyb]

Until I die.

[PrinceAlbert57]

6 hours

[Amur8711]

For a while, not sure how long exactly

[Godihateyou]

About 2 years.