Local Groups
Find your FI tribe. Browse local groups, country chapters, and state communities across the ChooseFI network.
Groups near Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, OH
For anyone in the Columbus, Ohio area interested in financial independence. Join us for meetups and connect with the local community.
Southeast Ohio
For anyone in southeast Ohio — Athens, Zanesville, Marietta, and the Appalachian foothills.
Dayton
For anyone in Dayton, Springfield, and the greater Miami Valley area.
Cincinnati
CinciFI organizers are working toward deeper adoption of ChooseFI Local, but for now more activity goes on at the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CinciFI Here is a template you can use if you are interested in presenting a case study at one of our meetups: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1T41ie14ptcryjWIF76ozdfZXFt-ICzR2maVMl2fF6HQ/edit?usp=sharing
Huntington
For anyone in Huntington, Ashland, and the Tri-State area along the Ohio River.
Northeast Ohio
Welcome to North East Ohio ChooseFI group. The group is here to help bring local, like minded people together, to share resources and engage in a meaningful conversation about financial independence. Among other things, this group is here to: 1.) Organize social meetups, allowing members to meet & greet in person. 2.) Organize educational meetups, spread the knowledge and help members with their journey to FI. 3.) Utilize, share, and recommend local resources
Northwest Ohio
For anyone in northwest Ohio — Toledo, Findlay, Lima, and the surrounding region.
Cleveland
For anyone in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Join us for meetups, events, and conversations about financial independence on the North Coast.
Charleston, WV
For anyone in Charleston, South Charleston, and the Kanawha Valley area.
Fort Wayne
For anyone in Fort Wayne, Allen County, and the northeast Indiana area.
States in United States
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278 members
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90 members
American Samoa
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517 members
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158 members
California
2800 members
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1178 members
Connecticut
270 members
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80 members
Florida
1350 members
Georgia
398 members
Guam
7 members
Hawaii
115 members
Idaho
193 members
Illinois
867 members
Indiana
471 members
Iowa
275 members
Kansas
338 members
Kentucky
236 members
Louisiana
128 members
Maine
73 members
Maryland
598 members
Massachusetts
638 members
Michigan
650 members
Minnesota
704 members
Mississippi
58 members
Missouri
579 members
Montana
102 members
Nebraska
169 members
Nevada
216 members
New Hampshire
180 members
New Jersey
588 members
New Mexico
146 members
New York
1115 members
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1098 members
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47 members
Northern Mariana Islands
Ohio
938 members
Oklahoma
164 members
Oregon
588 members
Pennsylvania
906 members
Puerto Rico
16 members
Rhode Island
87 members
South Carolina
324 members
South Dakota
65 members
Tennessee
442 members
Texas
1728 members
U.S. Virgin Islands
Utah
382 members
Vermont
84 members
Virginia
1110 members
Washington
1207 members
Washington DC Metro
498 members
West Virginia
55 members
Wisconsin
614 members
Wyoming
37 members
Browse by Country
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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