Thrifty living to save up. Make the right sacrifices and with most jobs, one can make 20k in less than 2 years.

Depends what you're willing to sacrifice. Remember the people above on the boats of garbage?

Fair. Atheism is still a belief, though.

I'm saying if people can do that, you can succeed through legal and less drastic means.

Depends how much you want it and what sacrifices you're prepared to make. If people can successfully leave a dictatorship by crossing the ocean on boats made of garbage, you can leave a free country and move to another one with cheaper living rates.