That would get you pretty far outside of the biggest cities. It wouldn’t make for a glamorous life, but it would be enough that at minimum you wouldn’t have to

That would get you pretty far outside of the biggest cities. It wouldn’t make for a glamorous life, but it would be enough that at minimum you wouldn’t have to worry about food and housing. For context, during the recession I managed to survive one year of severe underemployment, living in Houston, on an income of less than $20k for the year. Things were tight, and I had no savings at the end of that year, so I’m glad it didn’t last any longer. But if I imagine having that same experience with an extra $1k/mo in baseline income, it would have gone from “stressful” to “not where I want to be, but okay.”