You need to know something about my standard of living in order to understand any sort of answer I might give you. We're living in a small travel trailer in a mobile home court in rural Alabama. It costs us $100 per month to park our trailer here. Right now, I'm doing my internetting in a little metal shed that we've set up next to our trailer. We have one vehicle, which we don't use more than once or twice a week on average. All of the jobs that Rob is qualified to do seem to be bleeding over to India, and Rob is in the process of figuring out what he wants to do for a living now.

I'm working on some projects of my own, but they're not generating any income yet, so we're living on savings. There's no telling when we will have an income again. The projects I'm working on, if they do eventually generate an income, won't necessarily be dependent on the economic situation in the US. So I don't think I would agree with the idea that the changes I've suggested will necessarily have any significant impact on my standard of living.