{"id":231501,"date":"2025-09-04T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=231501"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:40:11","slug":"nobody-in-georgia-wants-to-work-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=231501","title":{"rendered":"Nobody (in Georgia) Wants to Work Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You\u2019ve probably heard the line: <em>\u201cNobody wants to work anymore.\u201d<\/em> Usually tossed out at younger workers and usually with a sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here\u2019s the twist. Georgia is one of the easiest states in America to retire in, which means a whole lot of older workers here are lining up to stop working as soon as humanly possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a new study from retirement expert John Stevenson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Retirement savings needed: $813,559<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Average annual wage: $64,210<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Average annual expenses: $34,180<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That combo means the average Georgian can retire in just 27 working years. Compare that to most states, where retirement looks more like a 40-year marathon, and suddenly the \u201cdon\u2019t want to work\u201d crowd starts sounding less like a complaint and more like a life goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zoom out to the national picture:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>63% of Americans say the cost of living makes it nearly impossible to save.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>14% dipped into retirement accounts just to pay everyday bills this year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 in 5 workers at the tail end of their careers haven\u2019t saved a dime for retirement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So yes\u2014nobody wants to work anymore. And if Georgia is any indication, that\u2019s not a problem. That\u2019s the dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/johnstevenson.com\/how-many-years-will-it-take-to-retire-in-your-state\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">full study here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=38]\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve probably heard the line: \u201cNobody wants to work anymore.\u201d Usually tossed out at younger workers and usually with a sigh. But here\u2019s the twist. Georgia is one of the easiest states in America to retire in, which means a whole lot of older workers here are lining up to stop working as soon as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":231512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"large","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8791],"tags":[9765,19102,12071,13360],"class_list":["post-231501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia-by-the-numbers","tag-retirement","tag-retiring","tag-work","tag-workers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}