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If you’d consider living somewhere else, geographic arbitrage completely changes the math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CIOG69D4Gk

Work remotely for a western tech salary and save 90% of it. That person’s $500/month example is pretty extreme, but one can live well in most of Mexico, a lot of SE Asia, and a lot of South America for under $1000/month.

If you’re planning to move for a long period or potentially forever, be aware that Spanish is much easier to learn than, say, Thai, and some countries (Mexico!) are much more flexible about visa extensions and permanent residency than others.

(Doing this with kids is much, much harder because most “international schools” charge very high tuition. The math probably doesn’t work out, especially compared to moving to a low cost of living town in your existing first-world country.)