> but where i'm from, you would have a very comfortable life earning 5k every month, so his self-imposed 60k/yr salary doesn't seem unreasonable at all.

(Some) HN commentators seems weirdly out of touch when it comes to salary outside of IT-heavy cities in the US. The other day someone claimed $125k/year for an employee wasn't "big money" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40927175), so I'd take any comments saying some salary is high/low with a box filled with sand.