How should you choose where to work or what business to do when you are making the preparations for Financial Independence (FI)? You must pay attention to one figure: how much you are left with at the end of the month after paying off all your expenses, taxes and loans (ETL). So, if a person working in China earns US$300/m, spends only US$150 for ETL, and can save up 50% of US$150/m, then he is worse off than an American who can save up only 20% of his US$5,000/m salary.
If you are young and single, hence mobile, you should choose to work in a place---even overseas---where you can maximize your savings rate. This way, you can shorten the period of your financial accumulation period, and retire earlier.
As you can see, the % of your salary that you can save doesn't matter as much as the absolute figure itself: e.g. US$150 or US$1000.
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