Mohit Satyanand wrote something last month that made sense to me, perhaps, it is useful to you. http://qz.com/244258/i-can-afford-the-choice-of-not-working-full-time-it-took-two-decades-of-planning-and-discipline/
----- When I left the corporate world, I lost my company car. I didn’t replace it for 7 years, wrote TV scripts at home, and cycled to the editing studio. Expensive suits gave way to denim jeans; hand-made shoes to Hawaii chappals. Holidays were a bus ride or a friend’s car into the hills, a tent in open fields, or a run-down room in a dak bungalow. On one of these trips, waking in a clearing in a Kumaon forest, I realised the home of my dreams would be here. Meanwhile, with the magic of compounding, and the deepening discipline of material restraint, the FY Fund had grown, and stretched to a small plot of fallow land, and a one-roomed cottage of stone and pine, built by a local mason. No architect, no interior designer. No furniture, except for a picnic table, and a cast-off sofa. To this day, we sleep on mattresses in the loft, and my work-space is the sill of our large window on the garden. ----- My big takeaway is that such a move is easier the better prepared one is. best, Dibyo
