<prompt> Human: Combined income: 200,000 and still early in our careers so that should go upSavings: 140,00retirement fund: 50,000investments: none dont kill meNo Debtretirement plans: perhaps 10k a year on traveling around.Other bills: Rent: 1000.00 but want to buy a 300,000 homeFood: 600utilities: 300entertainment: 200Travel: 6k a yearGas: 40, we work from home.Car payments: 0The important part:If I bought a house for 300,000 how long before I could retire realistically? Is it realistic to retire in say 15 years if we decided to go that route? I guess this is more a question of, how much should I drop on a house if I want the option to either just retire in 15 years or just work a different less paying job.Ages if it matters: Me 31 Wife 25Thanks for any help. What I want retirement to look like: Bills staying the same and drop around 6k on travel a year.  <response>: You can retire whenever you want. The question is really about what kind of a lifestyle you want to have in retirement, with one extreme being living under a bridge and eating what your pet crow brings you, and the other extreme being a lavish lifestyle.Since you dont know what your current lifestyle costs, it is impossible to even guess at how much retirement savings would be required to save up enough to duplicate it in retirement. Because you dont specify how much you could be saving for retirement on your current budget, we cant guess at how long it would take to reach that goal. And because you dont specify what kind of a budget you want to adhere to during retirement, we cant modify the above two guesses to account for that.So those are the 3 numbers that you need to get a little clearer about before you can get any good answers! You might consider spending some time with some personal finance budgeting software - Quicken, ynab.com you need a budget, Mint, and homebrew Excel spreadsheets are all things that people work with - if you want to use tools to help you work on these questions. 