[jlarocco]

What doesn't make sense to me about that line of thinking is why even keep working? Why not work for a year, save money, and then live in your van wherever just doing whatever?

If you could save $75k of the $135k salary, you could go a very long time living in a van in somewhere like South Dakota.

[jimworm]

Alimony, or the quick modern way for man to achieve indentured servitude.

[ethbro]

I would hazard that someone who is happy enough in their job to live at work (let's face it, no one who is proposing this is working at Taco Bell) doesn't have being able to leave their job as their #1 priority.

I'm sure it's somewhere up there, but I see this as more of a compatible lifestyle choice than a suffer-in-the-short-term-then-cash-out scheme.

[jlarocco]

I hadn't thought of that, and it makes sense, thought I don't quite understand it.