I've done the calculations. I can FIRE by June of 2019 if I stay on course. With the equity I'm earning in my company by continuing to be an outstanding employee, I can get to $2M in assets by June 2019, assuming of course that I keep living frugally and stay focused on the end goal. With that I can escape HCOL San Francisco, and get back to the East coast where houses are much more reasonably priced, buy a fixer with cash, and me and my fiancee can get married, have kids, and be completely out of the rat race.
Yea, I know, $2M sounds like a astronomically high number for some of you, perhaps because I've lived in SF for 7 years, my numbers a totally skewed, but that's the number I feel secure at. I want to have money to buy a modest house near the center of Carrboro, or Chapel Hill, NC, walkable/bikable areas, and after that house still have enough investments left over to FIRE on.
Why June 2019, it's all about vesting schedule and diminishing returns. I'm still getting paid a lot of equity, and I figure at 2 years I will have gotten the majority of it, and while I could stay probably indefinitely, I like definite. Plus me and my fiancee are both 35 so we want to start a family soon.
I thought I would share my 2 year goal, maybe make it feel more real to me.