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Comment author: RichardKennaway 25 September 2014 11:17:14AM 4 points [-]

I probably won't increase that until I have a lot of savings, like on the order of several months of salary.

I see that people have very different attitudes to money. To me, several months of salary is not a lot of savings, but a very precarious amount. I would be uncomfortable without savings of several years of salary, and the ideal minimum amount would be enough to live on indefinitely without drawing on the capital.

I don't miss trains either.