Living Well on Less Than $30,000 a Year--One American Family's Story

"It's all because of our low cost of living that I can feel relatively secure."

We see stories like this all the time: Survey: The average American feels they need to earn over $186,000 a year just to live comfortably.

This is over three times the $59,000 median annual earnings of full-time workers in the US (52 weeks X $1,139). Median weekly earnings of the nation's 119.2 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,139 in the…