You would need to make living on $6000 a year practical as well. It's not as hard as people think, as if you're not working you don't need to locate yourself in

You would need to make living on $6000 a year practical as well. It's not as hard as people think, as if you're not working you don't need to locate yourself in a city or bother with transportation, but there are structural changes that need to be made. The big two are probably housing deregulation (consisting of (i) seriously scaling back zoning laws and (ii) removing laws limiting occupation density) and fixing the health care system (no easy answers there). It's a complicated issue.