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I live very comfortably in Northern Thailand on around $12K a year. BUT
I don't pay rent. I built a house on land owned by my wife and my only housing costs are power, water, phone and gas.
I have satellite TV, Internet, run a car and eat mainly Western food. We have a half time maid and part time gardener.
So you can see it comes down to how much rent you pay. Expect to pay $100 a month upwards for anything decent.
I've lived here through a military coup and a civil insurrection and if I hadn't seen them on TV would not have known they were happening.
I live in the USA on less than $12,000 a year, so I guess you could do it just about anywhere. You really don't need to spend any money on anything but rent and groceries, and cook all your own meals, and it's quite easy. There are not many capitals or major cities that you can do it that cheap, but in every country, there is someplace you can live quite decently but without any frills for that.
In a little town in Paraguay, my wife and I paid $25 a month for rent of a 2-room house with electricity and a water tap, and maybe $50 a month for the food we cooked. So we were living on about one-tenth of your projected budget, and there were two of us.
You can live in the U.S like everyone said comfortably in fact. Find an area that is bike or motorcycle friendly so you do not have to deal with the expenses of a car. You can get a really tiny home for less then 40k and land is cheap right now, or buy a travel trailer and put it some where.
Almost anywhere in Texas, except major urban centers, you can easily find a one-bedroom apartment for well under $500 a month, in a decent mid-range safe neighborhood. Even in south Texas, you'll need to run AC only about 5 months a year, and turn on the heat only a few days. Your electric bill should average less than $100 a month, including AC, cooking lights, and hot water. That will leave you $400 a month for everything else. In America, the cost of housing is a constant, everything else is a variable, according to what you want and what you can live without.
I have a friend who is also moving there. He has lived there previously as an ex-pat. If you contact me privately I can hook you up to discuss living there.
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