I think it is possible, but not if anything goes wrong. For instance, I used to live off of ~300 / month in the US by living mostly in forest. However, after

I think it is possible, but not if anything goes wrong. For instance, I used to live off of ~300 / month in the US by living mostly in forest. However, after having a kid my wife demanded regular housing. I could divorce her and go without housing again, but then the state would impute my income and order child support at 20% of the income I _could_ make (which is very high) even though the actual cost of the necessities for a child is minimal (maybe 200 a month maximum). If you fail to pay you will be charged a felony and go to debtor's prison. So the answer is in many occasions you and your family could live a happy life on basically nothing, but you would have to live with the fact you will be imprisoned and lose all your professional and driver licenses and have all your land and assets seized because you don't earn at your imputed income. For this reason I abandoned a fairly happy life living off almost no money and instead slave away at a keyboard dreaming of the life that once was. Just don't make mistakes.