{"id": "1t77pih", "title": "7 years into FIRE: I figured out why this sub is full of \"I retired but I'm miserable\" posts", "subreddit": "Fire", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Fire/comments/1t77pih/7_years_into_fire_i_figured_out_why_this_sub_is/", "score": 3062, "comments": 175, "selftext": "Quick disclaimer first: English isn't my native language. I'm Russian. I'll try to write clearly, but I'll sound weird in places. Please focus on the idea, not the grammar.\n\nI retired in 2018. Actually retired — stopped exchanging time for money. Lived off my portfolio for 7 years. Survived two market crashes. I'm fine.\n\nBut that's not what I want to talk about.\n\nEvery second post in this sub is some version of:\n\n* \"I FIRE'd and now I'm depressed\"\n* \"Six months in, I don't know who I am anymore\"", "created_utc": 1778246284.0}