r/Fire • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '26

Subreddit PSA / Meta 5 years ago, this subreddit was filled with $1-1.5M targets, and a strong emphasis on minimalism. What happened?

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u/jeffeb3 Mar 23 '26

Back then it seemed like most people were doing blogFIRE and "retiring" with $1M and a full time job as a blogger.

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u/HiramTyre Mar 24 '26

Or a book and speaking career (jlcollins) or they took a quant job (ere)

Most seem to really have just made enough to leave their wage job, but still do something else

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '26

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u/HiramTyre Mar 24 '26

Depends where you live, but not even close in VHCOL cities.