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The FIRE Exit
Worked exits · Invented on purpose — the person is fiction, the arithmetic is not.

Viktor, 31 — somewhere on the road

A lean solo cyclist who already left, and wants to know if he can stay gone.

Is €400,000 enough to stay out forever?

Viktor lives on €1,100 a month from a bicycle and has €400,000 invested from his old life. He isn't saving another cent — the question is whether the pot carries him for good, and where it carries him furthest.

Spends
1,100/mo
Invested
€400k
Saves
The number (×30)
€396,000

Already past the number

The odds their pot dies first

0.5%

run at their exit point, against real market history and mortality tables

My verdict

At his spending, Viktor's pot already clears the ×30 bar — he isn't riding toward the exit, he's riding around inside it. His real margin isn't the pot; it's the map. The same life costs him half as much on the cheap end of the continent as it would in the priciest corners.

His plan needs exactly one discipline: keep the spending where the ground is cheap when the markets have a bad decade. The map is his buffer. That's not a compromise — for him it's the whole sport.

Next exit: Søren, 40 — Copenhagen

Everyone here runs at a deliberately modest 5% real return (after inflation) and a ×30 number — the calculators default to showing you more of the range; drag the sliders yourself. The people are invented, the arithmetic is real, and none of it is advice.

Bring me a challenge.

The Exit Audit, then ninety minutes: a straight verdict, real alternatives with their pros and cons, and your first move. If you want someone to nod along, I’m the wrong person to pay.