Congratulations, what a fantastic achievement made in such a short time! I understand that you've gotten there and it's like, 'now what?'. The next £300k? :-)

I guess you going on about the noise was similar to when I returned to the office for the first time after lockdown - after a year of working from home in complete silence (I don't have music on in the background), I found the office noisy and difficult to concentrate in, although of course it was really nice to see people again!

If you were on the tram, I could have been one of those northern ladies cackling loudly!

It was the train to Preston, not the tram next door - those cone-kicking chavs were getting on the tram to the centre though ;)

It's strange what you get used to and then forget. We're all just on autopilot barely having any input or control into our own idioms and things that we think are core beliefs may really have been programmed subconsciously. Like this annoyance of people talking on a train!

Nice work on the goal hitting, onward march now as you say :)

I can't believe you've forgotten so quickly the lovely loud chavs that frequent our beautiful Island! For shame! :)

You didn't mention the good things about UK that you did miss and memory served you well... were there really none? >oD

Ahaha, I thought the Swedish kids were annoying, but they've got nothing on the chavs in the UK.

It was a strange visit overshadowed by COVID and morose parents thinking about old age in their COVID lock-down states. I really enjoyed the English pubs, and pies... God I love stake and ale pies, I hadn't had one in 2 years. There's not a single pub in Sweden as nice as any random local in the UK; they're all grimy bars in the city centre, they have a weird view of alcohol here. We enjoyed being able to buy booze in any supermarket too.

It can feel strangely underwhelming when you hit those goals that you may have been long chasing.

Mortgage paid off, that's nice now I can save / invest more.

Net worth hits a defined amount - cool ... but do I have enough, perhaps I need more.

However, I'd rather hit my metrics and be underwhelmed than not have any plans in place. Hopefully some of the financial aspects are now looking after themselves and allowing you to focus on ther more pleasurable pursuits, but ... we all love our spreadsheets.

This is what I'm coming to the realization of... Goal hitting won't give me some kind of pleasure. Happiness comes from other things, and I need to make sure I'm focusing on that too.

@Jase thank you! :) It's not actually felt as nice as I thought it would; I think it's as I have a lot of other things on my mind and I always want to earn more (even more so now that I manage people who work in the US and I see they earn 4x as much.) I've learnt now that I won't get much joy from hitting certain monetary targets, I need to find inner peace from other things instead. Back to Sweden on the 6th!

@Tony Thanks :) I'm glad that you're glad. I remember commenting on yourself and Nick's blog asking why no index funds? That's all I ever knew from reading Mr Money Moustache and Reddit. I'd love to visit Barcelona!

Congrats maaaan!! You were the ones who contributed to my decision to switching to global funds, I am glad I did.

Funny you say UK looks loud to you, you've got to come to Spain then! If you manage to read a book/writing blog post without losing your nerves in Barcelona metro, I invite you to something cheap (a beer?) haha

Congrats buddy!

It felt like a huge relief to hit my goal for the year and it must do for you aswell! Are you back to Sweden straight after Christmas or have a few weeks in the UK?