I retired at 50, 11 years ago. So did my wife. If I had kept working I would have a few million more, but I could never buy the time back. My mother passed away when she was 55, the owner of the company I worked for and also a good friend died at 57. So I wanted to retire when I was still healthy enough to do what I wanted. And we had plenty of money to maintain our standard of living.
things have worked out well so far.