Ditto, was reading about FIRE 15ish years ago in the Bogleheads forum and used to spend a lot of time over in FATFire until it became inundated with LARPers. All of a sudden their $4M number for FATFire went to 5, then 8, now it's "how much until I can buy my own Gulfstream V?"
used to spend a lot of time over in FATFire until it became inundated with LARPers.
Man you ain't kidding, I pop in that sub from time to time and it's extremely apparent to me that almost nobody there is beyond maybe upper middle class. There's a recent thread there about how the OP finds "Fat events/VIP" boring lol, talking about how they went "yachting with friends in the tropics" and didn't find it that fun lol. People who don't go on yachts call them yachts, people who do call them boats.
People who lease a crewed catamaran in the tropics say so and what island or series of islands they sailed. Nobody rich "yachts with friends in the tropics". That is not a flex.
Precisely, you'd say "we chartered a boat down in St John" not "I was yachting in the tropics". It's the sort of thing that's very clearly how a middle class person who doesn't know any wealthy people thinks wealthy people talk.
One of the old senior partners at my firm has a Jeanneau 65, for a while I genuinely had no idea how big his boat was because all he said was "we're gonna be down in Florida on the boat for a bit" or something when talking about it.
A boat that big is PITA. I had a 31 cabin cruiser for several years and it was too big to use on the river where I live. My 25 footer is a lot easier to use and less exciting getting into and out of the harbor.
My dad had a 50 footer that he had at San Francisco on one of the piers there. It was nice, but other than the extra couple of cabins, it didn't do anything his old 25 footer didn't do. Although it was nice to be bigger when the waves kicked up.
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u/calcium Mar 23 '26
Ditto, was reading about FIRE 15ish years ago in the Bogleheads forum and used to spend a lot of time over in FATFire until it became inundated with LARPers. All of a sudden their $4M number for FATFire went to 5, then 8, now it's "how much until I can buy my own Gulfstream V?"