So here’s my new rule, and I invite you to adopt it: if a once-every-four-years (or rarer) event comes within an hour of your home, you go. No spreadsheet analysis. No “let me check the resale market Wednesday.” Go away. The memory dividend compounds far longer than whatever that money would have earned in the S&P 500.

The next World Cup on home soil probably won’t come back for decades. The next Super Bowl at Levi’s? Who knows. But something else spectacular is always coming, because that’s what expensive cities do. They put on a show.

. The sooner you get to seven figures, the sooner you can stop debating whether the good seats are worth it.

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