r/SwissFIRE • u/EconomiadeVerdad • 12d ago

ChubbyFIRE wealth level depending on residence canton

Hi there, I'm a 28M Spanish guy, and my wife and I recently decided to move within ~2 years to Switzerland for good (already started learning German and so on).

I know that there's no such a thing as a magic undisputed wealth number to be considered as ChubbyFIRE, but I'm curious how this approximate level can vary from canton to canton because of taxes, cost of living, home prices... Has someone any data about it?

Danke und LG.

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u/blablamehbla 10d ago

What is the point of this post? How much do you have today in assets? Accumulating ChubbyFIRE amounts of assets is usually reserved for specialists that earn a lot of money. People in that group can usually make similar amounts in other regions.

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u/EconomiadeVerdad 9d ago

With your last sentence I guess you mean the accumulation phase. However, I'm thinking about the FI phase.

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u/blablamehbla 9d ago

It's going to be about the same in all regions for that. Some regions have lower rents and other costs of living but they are generally economically weaker and have higher taxes (especially on wealth) in return.

So just pick a place where you'd like to live in Switzerland, and model out the costs there for the type of life you'd want to live. It's going to be the same more or less anywhere, unless you're looking at 20M+ wealth at which point cantons with high wealth taxes will start looking noticeably worse.

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u/EconomiadeVerdad 9d ago

Nice, that's the answer I was looking for, thx man