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Here's a few options I have...
Save as much as possible and take it all to much cheaper countries. Vietnam, Indonesia, etc you can live for years on the savings from a year or so of work.
Buy cheap land and homestead
Monastery or communal living
Volunteer with WWOOF or workaway long term
Work seasonally take the rest off. Firewatch, ski bum, etc
FIRE as mentioned in another comment. Takes a longer time but if you are super frugal and have a high salary actually very doable in 5-10 years. I suggest looking at mr money moustache.
Also dropping out. Look up how to drop out there's an old famous article about it.
Overall read Early retirement extreme it gives lots of good ideas too.
After looving at various possibilities for a few years I am much more hopeful cause I realized there are tons of realistic options!
No, please don't do this. You're hurting the natives living there. The same happened to countries north of southern America. Rent skyrocketed when techbros started moving there during remote work.
And no, FIRE does not work for minimum wage and underestimated workers. It works for people who have "high status" jobs. Like a doctor, or a engineer. I've lived imporvished, we've been extremely frugal. No AC, no washing machine, no climate control, no TV, no PlayStation, none of the stuff considered privileged. None of the expensive "superfoods" - just simple boiled rice with curd and pickles. It does not work. We also do not have any insurance. Just 4 lacs in the bank, and in case of an emergency, we are fucked up.
Yeah fire definitely requires a good salary as I said.
I think it depends, you're not always hurting the locals. Often there's expat areas in cities that are more expensive but more local areas stay cheap. Also you can support locals by buying from there businesses. I've been travelling southeast asia lots and the majority of locals tell us they like the tourists and expats because they allow them to make much more money.