r/coastFIRE↗
CoastFIRE
"Have enough in the bank to do what you want." This is a place for people who have reached or are interested in reaching the milestone of Coast Financial Independence / Retire Early (aka Coast FIRE). Coast FIRE is when you have enough saved and invested that with no additional contributions, your net worth will increase with compounding growth to support a traditional retirement. Coast FIRE is all about using your savings to unlock freedom before hitting regular FIRE.
153k subscribers305 posts / mo in Sep 2026278 authors / mosince 2019
r/coastFIRE has 153k members (+32% over the last 12 months). It gets about 305 posts a month from 278 people. Top topics: Retirement and Career Choices, FIRE Career & Life Balance and FIRE Journey Updates.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Retirement and Career Choices6.7%
- FIRE Career & Life Balance2.9%
- FIRE Journey Updates2.0%
- StartingFIRE1.1%
- Financial Independence Journey0.9%
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- Mad Fientist
- FI Calc
- Wolfram
- Fidelity Investments
- Vanguard
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