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That's a nice way to think about it. Looking back at the big "travelling phase" in my 30s, there were lots of years where I only grossed between $10,000 and $20,000 for the year. That was plenty, though, to spend most of the year living out of a backpack on some remote tropical beach. A lot of it actually ended up in savings.

That was contracting, so I needed to come back to LA to refill the travelling stack. It doesn't take much work to pivot that into a SaaS product or two that replaces the same amount of income. Again, maximising for free time and flexibility with profit being a nice side effect.

Then it gets really good.

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> It doesn't take much work to pivot that into a SaaS product or two that replaces the same amount of income.

Do tell! Creating the product is easy, it's causing the product to generate income that has always eluded me.

Curious what you learned from this experience, how old you are, and what you're doing now.

I'm also interested in this, but I'd be more interested in how you can live at a tropical beach on $10k/y.

Central America, SE Asia.

Brazil is one of the most expensive countries around central/latin america and there's plenty of people living(maybe not living well) with this kind of salary, that on the economic centers, I believe there's plenty of beach cities(e.g.: in the northeast) that have ridiculous low costs of living because there's not much for the local economy to revolve at, only commerce, small biz, leisure and tourism so people make a little but live good lifes at a slower pace and if you've got a near-big-city-like income, or remote thing it's like you're rich if you go to a place like this...

My wife and I just bought an oceanfront condo in the Philippines for $60k. That is at the higher end of the range, because we wanted to be in Metro Manila. You could get a place at a fraction of this price if you went to a smaller city province like Cebu or Bohol.

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