Stuff to do with the forum itself, not about early retirement.

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

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

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

Discussions about market timing, individual stocks, commodities, bitcoin, 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.

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?

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.)

Discussions about Coronavirus / COVID-19; impacts, perceptions and possibilities. Now go wash your hands.

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!

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

If it doesn't fit in another category, post it here! Please--put your FIRE related political posts in the "FIRE Related Political Topics" forum. The "reasonable person principle" applies -- anything goes, outside of rude, obscene, or other stuff that doesn't belong on a public forum.
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Devices, cord cutting and cost analysis, cell phones, cable TV, internet and home technology. Topics about movies, TV shows, podcasts, Streaming and e-content.

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.

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 cleaned out regularly. No registration is required to post here.