Open Poll: what’s your FIRE number, when do you pull the trigger, and where do you want to live? Personally, my ideal numbers are 10M, 35, and lower cost area of a HCOL (Brooklyn). One can always dream!

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$10M by 35? Even at McK, that's quite ambitious barring a trust fund or sizable inheritance.

Mine changes a bit from month to month, but currently about $4M by 53. If you'd asked a few years ago, it would have been $3.5M by 48, but then we had an unexpected kid and their college funding pushed out FIRE date back a few years.

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Up in the air right now, though we're currently slightly leaning towards staying here in the DC area and all our current math is based on that location. My wife's been here since undergrad and I've been here for the past decade; we both mostly like the area but it isn't set in stone by any stretch of the imagination.

Other areas we've casually looked into as destinations, all of which would change our FIRE calculations pretty drastically: Nashville, Charleston, Asheville, Salt Lake City, Cincy, Indianapolis, or somewhere in rural-ish Montana or Wyoming.

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10-15, 45-50. Greenwich CT.

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$10 mil by age 50 in Florida. Currently $1.3 mil at age 40. Very aggressive for my hh income of 200k.but ok to retire at 50 if I have atleast $1 mil disposable to generate yearly income of 100k.

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3 million by 40. Probably somewhere in Florida.

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1.5 M by 35 with a paid off property, living off interest in Florida.
Assuming that if I have a partner, they will have their own retirement path or consistent income.

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What rule is in play now, C1?

1.5M would be FI for me. Not sure I would pull the trigger unless work became really unbearable

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2M in Southeast Asia

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Currently at 1.7 m, looking to get to 100k/year passive income to pull the trigger.

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I have decent income coming from cryptocurrencies with 6-12% APY. I have a private equity play with a high growth industry and I'm looking to purchase a rental property next year if prices lower at all.

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10-15M, 35-40 YO, Southeast Asia / Taiwan / Korea / Japan

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That’s amazing - good luck on your journey and hope you also manage to balance saving and investing with enjoying life along the way!

$10M by 40. Somewhere with 4 seasons, sea, mountains and access to good healthcare and education

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Outside US - am not a US citizen.

3m, 40, home paid off, retire overseas.

Feels impossible at the moment to get there that early but I'm going to keep trying!

3M, 40, house paid off + RE revenue > mortgage, Boston

Paid off primary residence plus 5 mill. 52 (when I become an empty nester). HCOL but mostly traveling.

5.5m FI in HCOL now but shooting for 10m+ for fatfire in CA or Globe hopping

$2.5M by age 45. Def leaving the US. Open to locations.

To save $10M, one needs to make ~$20M before taxes. That is difficult even for most consulting partners. Most Ps don’t get to $1M gross income mark until 3rd 4th year and even the top senior Ps don’t exceed $2-3M a year easily at the peak of their careers.

I don’t know what kind of trajectory will lead to $10M savings at 35. Maybe joining a firm before IPO or starting a new business can lead to that.

Agree with you OW - def by no means the norm but it’s possible. Lol this is why my SO and I hesitate to move to HCOL/VHOL cities on our salaries. We are worth around 2M at 31 but in our peer set in big cities, we don’t know if it’s in our budget. Also I think these kind of massive NWs in 30s is very unusual given insane market performance especially in the last year or so.

2m by 35. LCOL country on the beach

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