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That's a nice way to think about it. Looking back at the big "travelling phase" in my 30s, there were lots of years where I only grossed between $10,000 and $2
by jasonkester 13y ago
That's a nice way to think about it. Looking back at the big "travelling phase" in my 30s, there were lots of years where I only grossed between $10,000 and $20,000 for the year. That was plenty, though, to spend most of the year living out of a backpack on some remote tropical beach. A lot of it actually ended up in savings.
That was contracting, so I needed to come back to LA to refill the travelling stack. It doesn't take much work to pivot that into a SaaS product or two that replaces the same amount of income. Again, maximising for free time and flexibility with profit being a nice side effect.
Then it gets really good.
- andreipop 13y agoCurious what you learned from this experience, how old you are, and what you're doing now.
- effekt 13y agoI'm also interested in this, but I'd be more interested in how you can live at a tropical beach on $10k/y.
- pault 13y agoCentral America, SE Asia.
- Buzaga 13y agoBrazil is one of the most expensive countries around central/latin america and there's plenty of people living(maybe not living well) with this kind of salary, that on the economic centers, I believe there's plenty of beach cities(e.g.: in the northeast) that have ridiculous low costs of living because there's not much for the local economy to revolve at, only commerce, small biz, leisure and tourism so people make a little but live good lifes at a slower pace and if you've got a near-big-city-like income, or remote thing it's like you're rich if you go to a place like this...
- byoung2 13y agoMy wife and I just bought an oceanfront condo in the Philippines for $60k. That is at the higher end of the range, because we wanted to be in Metro Manila. You could get a place at a fraction of this price if you went to a smaller city province like Cebu or Bohol.
- adambard 13y ago> It doesn't take much work to pivot that into a SaaS product or two that replaces the same amount of income. Do tell! Creating the product is easy, it's causing the product to generate income that has always eluded me.