>Again, I'll ask, given today's prices/costs, can you do it NOW?
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>If I must repeat myself - yes I could. If I were still 30.

..and if you had no car, no health insurance, no kids, and lived in a box. Yeah you can live the good life in the USA off $800 a month after taxes. The only people who claim that they "could" do this are the people who are not doing it.