dougules (at 43) December 27, 2021
MarcherLady (at 49) October 10, 2020
Chaplin (at 47ish) March 23, 2021
Accountant007 (at 48) December 23, 2021
dreams_and_discoveries (just before 40) February 2021
GBRS (at 36) Sept, 2021
Bownyboy (at 29) 25th December 2021
SassyG (at 54) (official date TBD) 2021
So I guess that makes me the oldest in the group, but only in earth years ;-) To be honest, I could probably FIRE now, but seeing as how I just discovered this whole concept about a year ago, seems like I should take time to get my $#!^ strategized first. A few goals:
- 2M net worth for FIRE (just in case... Currently at 1.3M, but that includes 4 properties, 2 do not produce income)
- Find a great partner/co-pirate to share this adventure with. This is really important to me, and I don't want to head off on this alone. I broke up with my SO of 8 yrs in large part because we couldn't get on the same financial/life plan page. Been seeing a nice guy for about 3 mo now, but still early stages. Stay tuned...
- I have a pretty good, well paying, low stress job that I can walk to. If I *have* to report to an office every day, this isn't such a bad gig.
- Savings rate for last qtr of 2016 is 85%!!! It won't last into 2017, as I was just being super aggressive to max out everything before end of the year. Average for 2016 was 25%, which is pretty good considering I was unemployed the first half of the year! Hope to maintain an average >50% rate next year.
- Post FIRE: Travel, move to EU, paint, read, be quiet, drink tea in front of a fabulous view.
Part of the challenge with calculating my own FIRE plan is that I currently live in a HCOL area (SF!), but manage to keep most expenses pretty low, around 2K/mo. But I plan to move to Switzerland/EU in retirement, and the COL will be kind of unpredictable. I'd like to live in different countries about 4-6 months at a time (a la Go Curry Cracker). Maybe Portugal for 6 mo (very LCOL), then CH for 4 mo (very HCOL), then Denmark for 4 months (HCOL) then Croatia 6 mo (LCOL). Then who knows, maybe pop off to SE Asia for a couple of years, you get the idea... So, really hard to predict how those expenses will pan out.
Anyway, great to find you guys! Looking forward to following and cheerleading everyones progress!