Instead of waiting for retirement to live a quiet life with their partners, many American women choose to divorce in middle age to restart a "missed" life.
Achieving financial independence and retiring at 43, Tanaka quickly found himself isolated, resorting to daily supermarket visits to seek conversation.
After deciding to retire at 48, Nguyen Thi Kim Trinh has spent the past two years traveling across Vietnam and abroad, maintaining a minimalist lifestyle on a flexible budget.
Despite an annual income exceeding 300,000 USD, 24-year-old Meta engineer Raymond Zeng maintains an intentionally sparse living arrangement, eschewing a television and sofa, to achieve his goal of early retirement by age 30.
