About 7 months ago I was standing on the street corner peddling water bottles and soda like I had been doing since losing my job 3 years earlier (I have problems with authority). I usually ride the bus to more "upscale" neighborhoods because I can jack up the price.
One day a man in a black Mercedes pulled up to the stoplight where I was hustling, I approached his car and waved at him holding a sign I had Vistaprint make for me during a $4.99 promotion. As the light turned green and was about to drive off, he rolled down his window, flipped me off and yelled "GO BE POOR SOMEWHERE ELSE!". He meant it as an insult, but that advice changed my life forever! Why am I being poor in my hometown when I could be poor ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD???
I logged onto my laptop and started searching through travel hacking blogs. I opened a bunch of airline rewards credit cards (for the bonus) and shut them down 3-4 months later. I had amassed enough bonus points to fly to the holy land of Cambodia.
I pay only $40 a month for rent here and get free wifi at my coworking space I pay $25 a month for. Food is also cheap here, although I mainly just eat rice.
This is the supreme lifestyle, I'm living like a world traveling king on a pesants dollar. You'd have to be a fool not to do it.
Go be poor somewhere else, MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. And leave us alone already.