No, illegal is bad. I could not be happy if I were freeing myself at the expense of others. One route I have in mind is living overseas. According to my calc

No, illegal is bad. I could not be happy if I were freeing myself at the expense of others. One route I have in mind is living overseas. According to my calculations, it should be possible to save up enough money over, say, about 5 years, to live entirely off the interest in a less developed country. However, less developed does not mean bad. The majority of my childhood was spent in a third world country. I greatly enjoyed it, and it was much less developed than what I have in mind. Also, I think there are places in the US that are just as affordable, but I haven't researched the issue much yet. Here is a bit of research I've done. I need to take into account more variables, and be a bit more rigorous, but it seems a plausible method. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122341 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122341