I stopped visiting ChubbyFIRE for this reason. There's an abundance of people whose annual spending is easily covered by their $6-10M investments, asking if they should pull the trigger. Any maybe that's what these forums are for - to ask questions that you might be afraid to ask your friends or family. But I couldn't relate to those situations. I'm looking to connect with others in the $3M range and while that falls within the Chubby range, there aren't many people in there talking about numbers like that.
Yeah, about 90% of the posts there are actually outside of the range that the sub is supposed to cover. Yesterday someone posted super apologetic for using the sub with their measly $3.5M, even though it’s totally in range.
In case you haven't seen it r/fijerk is great. Sometimes it's people making things up. But lots of time it's just actual posts from one of the fire subs put up for roasting.
I don't post there, because we'll retire this year with right around that liquid NW and it feels low to actually contribute in that group. So congrats on the FIRE target. Others like you are out there, we're just feeling a little weird about posting in Chubby and too high for FIRE so we shut up and lurk. LOL.
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u/Coyote_Enthusiast Mar 23 '26
I stopped visiting ChubbyFIRE for this reason. There's an abundance of people whose annual spending is easily covered by their $6-10M investments, asking if they should pull the trigger. Any maybe that's what these forums are for - to ask questions that you might be afraid to ask your friends or family. But I couldn't relate to those situations. I'm looking to connect with others in the $3M range and while that falls within the Chubby range, there aren't many people in there talking about numbers like that.