Tawcan is a Canadian personal finance and dividend investing blog that chronicles my quest for financial independence and joyful life.

I started this blog to show it is possible to achieve financial independence as a single-income family with two young kids while living in Vancouver Canada, one of the most expensive cities in the world.

My wife and I started building our dividend portfolio in 2011 after a financial epiphany.

Today, the portfolio generates over $6,000 in dividends per month. We originally dreamed of becoming financially independent and living off dividends by 2025. Although we could live off dividends by supplementing it with a part time income in 2025, we aren't in a rush to cross the so called "finish line." Therefore, we are taking it easy and we plan to realize the dream of living off dividends before 2030.

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Travelling with toddlers in Taiwan & Japan

In late January, Mr. T, Baby T1.0, Baby T2.0 and I, along with my parents, my brother and his wife went back to Taiwan to visit our relatives. About 4 years ago we went to …

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Dividend Income – Jan 2019 Update

It’s my favourite time of the month – dividend income update! The reason why I publish these monthly updates is to keep us motivated and at the same time demonstrate that it is possible to …

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My Best Travel Mistakes

This is a fun post inspired by Jeremy’s post. While I haven’t travelled nearly as much as Jeremy and Winnie, after travelled to 20 countries so far, some of them multiple times, I have made …

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Revisit our Financial Independence Assumptions

3 years ago, I first wrote about our financial independence assumptions where I estimated how much we would need to be financially independent. Later, I wrote a post on what our income tax might look …

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