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Comment author: Omid 10 May 2013 07:07:50PM *  5 points [-]
  1. Find a job that you can do remotely. Camming, tutoring, and hypnosis are low-barrier jobs that fit the bill, but if you have the skills you can do things like consulting or programming.
  2. Move to a country a low cost of living and/or low income tax. Costa Rica has a flat tax of 15% on self-employed workers, and a fairly liberal visa policy for people who work via the Internet. EU citizens should consider Bulgaria, which has a 10% flat tax on self-employed residents and about 1/3 the cost of living as the UK.
  3. Save money!
Comment author: maia 11 May 2013 02:54:19AM 4 points [-]

A less drastic version of this, if you are in the US, is to do remote work from a thinly-populated rural state with a low cost of living, and ideally with lower state taxes.

But the problem with that is that you have to live in rural America.

Comment author: CAE_Jones 12 May 2013 12:46:06PM 4 points [-]

I've been thinking about exactly this. The town where I live is on Kiplinger's top ten best (American) towns for cheapskates, and I've researched the cost of living and such, and it'd be easy to live comfortably on $2000/month (or $1000 or less, if I didn't have student loans to pay). It helps that this town tanked the recession rather well and is constantly growing, so anyone more competent than me can probably find something to exploit for living expenses.

But the culture, the wildlife, the weather, and the logistics of traveling anywhere at all (I'm at least two miles from the nearest sidewalk that isn't driveway-to-porch) are... a bit troubling. I've been seriously researching and comparing here to places like the Bay Area lately, since I really need to change something soon, and I'm still not reasonably sure of what that will be.

Comment author: palladias 14 May 2013 05:33:37AM *  4 points [-]

I'm not having much trouble living in the Bay Area on <$2000/mo, so I really doubt it's worth living somewhere without an Exploratorium

Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 May 2013 02:21:47PM 1 point [-]

I'm not having much trouble living in the Bay Area on >$2000/mo,

You mean <$2000/mo?

Comment author: palladias 14 May 2013 05:41:39PM 1 point [-]

Gevalt. Edited.

Comment author: jkaufman 18 May 2013 05:20:43AM 0 points [-]

$1000/month is doable even in a relatively expensive place like Boston.

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