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> Becoming independent and doing what you truely want to do without having to worry about opportunity cost, monetary compensation, or societal repercussions for "wrongthink".

Ironic considering there's very few paths to FIRE in the US (work in tech, be born rich). Whereas the average person in the EU has a safety net that "independent" people in the US have to slave for.

>>GaryNu+(OP)
And it is precisely said safety net that holds you back. Yes you are safe, just kind of like a sheep or cow can be safe. You are not free.

Few paths to FIRE in the US? Well definitely still more than in the EU.

The primary reason people aren't all going FIRE in the US is stupidity. Seriously, how can some people make 300k a year and not be a millionaire within a decade, then retire for the rest of their life in some LCOL place at 35??

You would have to force me to somehow blow that much money on retarded nonsense, as most of them seem to do.

For anyone who is not completely clueless about money FIRE is relatively attainable in the US.

>>jdthed+wi
> For anyone who is not completely clueless about money FIRE is relatively attainable in the US.

Of course, the average US citizen is closer to homelessness than being a millionaire. The US savings rate is abysmal.

> Move to a LCOL area

That's the beauty of those "terrible" safety nets, after a certain age anywhere in the EU becomes a LCOL area.