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Do you recommend any blog about FIRE/frugality in Germany? Or could you provide some info about your country? Hey! We lived in Germany for 12 years and reahced FI a coupel of years ago with Real Estate and online businesses. We write about some tax issues and generally life in Germany in english on...

Thanks! "Do you see an area with real estate bargains at the moment?" Well, I'm pretty sure there are many places where real estate is a good investment. Even if prices are high in the major german cities, the rent is also a lot higher. If you look for a 2-3 room flat in the city centre, w...

We're a family with 2 kids. Allready FI but i'm self employed and working on my online business (since it's fun). (btw we blog on http://whatlifecouldbe.eu if you want to read our story). Traveling is mostly limited to seeing family in Scotland and Romania but I can tell you, flying with 2 kids is e...

thanks! Quite interesting!
What health insurance do you have. It sounds very cheap. Are you a student?
How do you calculate smartphone depreciation?
Do you go on holidays? Do you budget for that? Or 30€/month is all you use for holidays?

Hey Poor Daniel! Your 7K expenses in Vienna is great! Can you tell us how those break down per cost category?

Hi. It's good to see there's a nice FIRE community in Holland! We live in Germany but we're moving to Romania next month. We're going to oragnise the Financial Independence Week Europe which si meant to be a fun weekend/week with like minded people around the topic of FI/RE, minimalism, self employm...

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Thank you!
Looking forwad to your email/video application as well!

I get the impression that Germany is more rigid in terms of how people are "expected" to live. I live in Germany for 12 years now (I'm hungarian) and I can confirm that Germans don't really talk about money and have difficulties in general understanding the concept of early retirement. On...

Hi Mirela. I'm from Romania (Timisoara area) but I am living for 12 years now in Germany. This is how we managed to become financially independent and now we're moving back to Romania. I fully understand your situation and I can see some advantages linfing in Romania: your costs are relatively low b...

Hello. We achieved FI in Germany with 2 kids 2 years ago and we're just about to move to Romania (where I'm originally from). If you need any info about Romania, I'm glad to help. It's not a bad place. In fact, we're organising the Financial Independence Week Europe there in September 2017.

haha...sounds like somebody has been to Romania...

Dear European FIRE People, we're Emma (from Scotland) and Robert (from Romania) but to make it more complicated, we live in Germany. Hope to see some of you at the Financial Independence Week Europe (FIWE) in Timisoara which we're organising in September. Date: 15th-21st September Limit: We've set a...