/r/fatFIRE/

r/fatFIRE

494k members
r/fatFIRE is a subreddit with 494k members. The most common kinds of discussions are money talk and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses struggling, fatfire, fire, retirement, and finance, and they frequently recommend/review finance app, personal finance app, and budget app.
Retire with a fat stash.

Popular Themes in r/fatFIRE

#1
Money Talk
: "Recently inherited a large sum of money and want to quit my job, should I lose my benefits and retire now?"
10 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Should we leave kids enough to sustain the same lifestyle?"
7 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Update: Mid-30's, $9.5M NW - need help figuring out where to go from here"
1 post
#4
Opportunities
: "Keep working to provide kids career opportunities?"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/fatFIRE

#1

Struggling

24 posts
#2

Fatfire

: "Is $7M enough to Fatfire in China?"
15 posts
#3

Fire

: "Repost from /Fire - Struggling with buyout decision."
13 posts
#4

Retirement

: "How Many Americans Have Banked a Cool $5 Million for Retirement?"
7 posts
#5

Finance

: "Why are people withdrawing cash?"
7 posts
#6

Investment

: "Why are people withdrawing cash?"
6 posts
#7

Motivation

5 posts
#8

Business

4 posts
#9

Tax Planning

3 posts
#10

Wealth

3 posts

Products Discussed in r/fatFIRE

Finance App

29 reviews
#1
Monarch
4.5 from 4 reviews
#2
Kubera
4.7 from 3 reviews
#3
Empower
5.0 from 2 reviews
#1
Monarch
4.3 from 4 reviews
#2
Kubera
4.7 from 3 reviews
#3
Copilot
4.0 from 2 reviews

Budget App

19 reviews
#1
Copilot
4.0 from 3 reviews
#2
Empower
5.0 from 2 reviews
#3
PocketSmith
4.5 from 2 reviews

Flair Used in r/fatFIRE

#1
Need Advice
: "Feeling Like an Imposter After My Husband’s $32M Exit"
27 posts
#2
Lifestyle
: "6 yrs in. Retired at 56, I'm now 61..update"
10 posts
#3
Investing
: "27M >$2.2M net worth with 97% concentrated in Nvidia. How would you diversify without regretting it?"
5 posts
#4
Path to FatFIRE
: "Health insurance is an obstacle to early retirement"
5 posts
#5
Recommendations
: "42yo, 9 mil NW, family of 4 and losing interest in medicine"
5 posts
#6
Inheritance
: "28yo, just found out I'm inheriting 20M"
4 posts
#7
FatFIREd
: "No one to tell: husband and I hit $7M NW at 30"
4 posts
#8
Happiness
: "How do you find people to socialize with when you're ER'd?"
1 post
#9
Real Estate
: "The arrogance of thinking real estate is "passive" income"
1 post
#10
Taxes
: "Paying quarterly estimated taxes with personal credit card?"
1 post

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Yearly
+46k members(10.3%)

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Last updated: August 15, 2026