How much capital do I need to retire comfortably on ?

[fungus pudding]

This is something the current generation simply don't understand and take the gift of many many years of interest free loans for granted and then still bleat that they have to repay the money ! Opps, digressing from the central theme of the thread again

From listening to those students who go on about the lucky generation, and it's certainly not all of them, you could be forgiven for thinking teenagers of earlier times had money dripping out their pockets. Nothing could be further from the truth. I live in a student city and had a lot to do with them through my activities. From my observations, the students have more to throw around than the teenagers of my day even though most were working full time. Nobody started on adult wages or even close. The grass is always greener, but when looking backwards - it's luminous green with spotlights.