[flyinRyan]

>Life here is much cheaper, I can go out with my girlfriend, eat something fancy, buy a 3 liters of beer and go see a movie with $25 and still have some money left.

But if you're good at software development you could be earning around $1k per day and retire in less than a decade. Are you really happy just chugging away like this for 40 years just so some rich CEO's can get even more money they can never spend?

[wazoox]

Your message reminds me of the famous joke of the Mexican fisherman and the investment banker... http://financialmentor.com/true-wealth/the-parable-of-the-me...

[flyinRyan]

That parable doesn't work very well when we're talking about someone working 40+ hours per week. If you can really live so well on $500 a month then just a year or two making actual market wage would be enough to finally do all the things this Mexican fisherman could do that the GP can't today.