Local Groups

United States

Canada

The easiest way to find local groups across Canada. This group aggregates 10 provincial communities and their events nationwide — from Toronto and Vancouver to Calgary, Ottawa, and beyond. Most meetups and discussions happen at the provincial or city level, so check out the groups below to find your closest community.

United Kingdom

The easiest way to find local groups across the United Kingdom. This group aggregates 13 local communities and their events nationwide — from London and Yorkshire to Liverpool, Newcastle, and beyond. Most meetups and discussions happen at the local level, so check out the groups below to find your closest community.

New Zealand

The easiest way to find local groups across New Zealand. This group connects 4 local communities and their events nationwide — from Wellington and Auckland to Christchurch and beyond. Most meetups and discussions happen at the local level, so check out the groups below to find your closest community.

Australia

The easiest way to find local groups across Australia. This group aggregates 15 local communities and their events nationwide — from Sydney and Melbourne to Brisbane, Perth, and beyond. Most meetups and discussions happen at the local level, so check out the city groups below to find your closest community.

Germany

Come and join to exchange on all Germany-specific topics regarding Financial Independence. This group is for general exchange and perfect to organize virtual meetups across Germany. For all in-person events, please use the local city groups"

Georgia

Your home base for the FI community in Georgia. Whether you're in Tbilisi, Batumi, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Spain

Your home base for the FI community in Spain. Whether you're in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Netherlands

Your home base for the FI community in the Netherlands. Whether you're in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Portugal

Your home base for the FI community in Portugal. Whether you're in Lisbon, Porto, the Algarve, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

France

Your home base for the FI community in France. Whether you're in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Sweden

Your home base for the FI community in Sweden. Whether you're in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

China

Your home base for the FI community in China. Whether you're in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

United Arab Emirates

Your home base for the FI community in the UAE. Whether you're in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or anywhere across the Emirates, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Mexico

Your home base for the FI community in Mexico. Whether you're in Mexico City, Guadalajara, San Miguel de Allende, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups. As the community grows, local city groups are forming — but this group keeps everyone connected nationwide.

India

Your home base for the FI community in India. Whether you're in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Singapore

Your home base for the FI community in Singapore — connecting members across the island for meetups, discussions, and financial independence conversations.

Switzerland

This group is all about the Swiss ChooseFI community. Share your advice, questions and ideas that might help our Swiss members on their path to FI!

Japan

Your home base for the FI community in Japan. Whether you're in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Ireland

Your home base for the FI community in Ireland. Whether you're in Dublin, Cork, Galway, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Thailand

Your home base for the FI community in Thailand. Whether you're in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Taiwan

Your home base for the FI community in Taiwan. Whether you're in Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, or anywhere across the island, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Denmark

Your home base for the FI community in Denmark. Whether you're in Copenhagen, Aarhus, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Belgium

Your home base for the FI community in Belgium. Whether you're in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Italy

Your home base for the FI community in Italy. Whether you're in Rome, Milan, Florence, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Brazil

Your home base for the FI community in Brazil. Whether you're in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Israel

Your home base for the FI community in Israel. Whether you're in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Norway

A group for anyone from anywhere in Norway! Hopefully we can eventually build up more local groups for the different counties or cities, but this is a great start to get a community and support from others on the same path.

Austria

Your home base for the FI community in Austria. Whether you're in Vienna, Salzburg, Graz, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

South Africa

Your home base for the FI community in South Africa. Whether you're in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Poland

Your home base for the FI community in Poland. Whether you're in Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Philippines

Your home base for the FI community in the Philippines. Whether you're in Manila, Cebu, Davao, or anywhere across the archipelago, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Malaysia

Your home base for the FI community in Malaysia. Whether you're in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor Bahru, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Nigeria

Your home base for the FI community in Nigeria. Whether you're in Lagos, Abuja, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Colombia

Your home base for the FI community in Colombia. Whether you're in Bogotá, Medellín, Cartagena, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Czech Republic

Your home base for the FI community in the Czech Republic. Whether you're in Prague, Brno, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Romania

Your home base for the FI community in Romania. Whether you're in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Chile

Your home base for the FI community in Chile. Whether you're in Santiago, Valparaíso, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Saudi Arabia

Your home base for the FI community in Saudi Arabia. Whether you're in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, or anywhere across the Kingdom, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Argentina

Your home base for the FI community in Argentina. Whether you're in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Finland

Your home base for the FI community in Finland. Whether you're in Helsinki, Tampere, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

South Korea

South Korea's financial landscape is its own beast — sky-high housing costs in Seoul, a culture that quietly pressures you toward consumption, and a tax and pension system that rewards knowing how to work it. This group is for people living and working here who want to cut through the noise and build real wealth, whether they're Korean nationals navigating chonsei and retirement planning or expats figuring out how to optimize across two countries.

Croatia

Your home base for the FI community in Croatia. Whether you're in Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Korea

Your home base for the FI community in Korea. Whether you're in Seoul, Busan, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Panama

Your home base for the FI community in Panama. Whether you're in Panama City, David, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Uruguay

Your home base for the FI community in Uruguay. Whether you're in Montevideo, Punta del Este, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Hungary

Your home base for the FI community in Hungary. Whether you're in Budapest, Debrecen, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Vietnam

Vietnam's low cost of living makes it one of the most talked-about destinations for geographic arbitrage, but actually building wealth here — navigating dong-denominated accounts, limited investment infrastructure, and expat tax complexity — is a different conversation entirely. This group is for people on the ground in Vietnam who want to get practical about FI in a country where the rules don't always translate from Western playbooks.

Kenya

Your home base for the FI community in Kenya. Whether you're in Nairobi, Mombasa, or anywhere across the country, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Indonesia

Your home base for the FI community in Indonesia. Whether you're in Jakarta, Bali, Surabaya, or anywhere across the archipelago, this is where members connect, share ideas, and organize meetups.

Costa Rica

Costa Rica attracts a steady stream of expats and digital nomads drawn by the pura vida lifestyle, but living here affordably takes more strategy than people expect — navigating colones vs. dollars, residency income requirements, and a tax system that plays by its own rules. This group is for people building wealth in or from Costa Rica, whether that's optimizing a remote income, understanding the Zona Franca advantages, or figuring out how to make the numbers work long-term in paradise.