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Early Retirement FAQs

Links and FAQs to discussions covering the most common topics for early retirement and financial independence.
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Hi, I am...

Introduce yourself here! (But hey -- start a new thread, so we can see your post!)
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FIRE and Money

Discussions of Safe Withdrawal Rates, personal finance in retirement, asset allocations, taxes, and almost anything else financial. This is the forum to discuss active vs passive / index investing and the costs of using a financial advisor. Discussions of active investing and alternative assets belong in the Active investing, market strategies and alternative assets forum, not here
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Active Investing, Market Strategies & Alternative

Discussions about market timing, individual stocks, commodities, precious metals and all other alternative asset classes. How to select and evaluate a financial advisor. This is NOT the forum to debate passive vs active or if the use of advisors is appropriate.
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Life after FIRE

Where to live, where to visit, etc. Move to other countries? Retire to a cruising yacht, or to an RV, and travel far and wide while keeping costs low?
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Health and Early Retirement

Topics dealing with health, wellness, and fitness, and how to pay for health care in retirement. (Not intended as personal medical advice, but plenty of interesting information.)
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Young Dreamers

Still have quite a few years before you can retire? Issues related to that can go here, but you're welcome anywhere on the forum!
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Travel Information

This is an area for our members who love to travel to share their experiences about great (and not so great) destinations.
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Other topics

If it doesn't fit in another category, post it here! Please--put your FIRE related political posts in the "FIRE Related Public Policy" forum. The "reasonable person principle" applies -- anything goes, outside of rude, obscene, or other stuff that doesn't belong on a public forum.
Popular Topics - Technology, Military, Cooking, Eldercare, Cost of Living
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Technology, Media & e-Gadgets

Devices, cord cutting and cost analysis, cell phones, cable TV, internet and home technology. Topics about movies, TV shows, podcasts, Streaming and e-content.
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FIRE Related Public Policy

For FIRE related issues concerning public policy and topics about FIRE related governmental conduct. Political topics not directly related to financial independence or retirement are not appropriate for this or any other E-R.org forum.
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FIRECalc support

This is an open board for FIRECalc "how to" support questions and discussions only. Please keep more philosophical discussions on the other boards so they will be around longer -- this board is cleaned out regularly.
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