I don't want to say too much, but I'm in a low CoL area and the pay's not great but I got enough to stack more XRP each paycheck, and the job itself wasn't too bad earlier (and I could grab a bit of downtime to read a bit or whatever). It's gotten worse as time has gone on with my boss, a fat cunt who often will side with the other cunts when there is something going on. It's just been building over time, but so has my XRP stack. And finding something better in my area would be difficult.
On the positive side, it really feels like there's a chance for all these years building up my XRP will finally pay off, grinding since before the sec sued Ripple. So far, it's not like gains other tokens have made before this, only going from $0.50 (roughly) to where it is now, but, there's bound to be something that breaks us through the ATH and onwards to new territory; we got real close earlier this year.
This hope was what got me through those earlier years, that at some point, the case would end and XRP would soar, and we're almost, almost free, which has been driving me nuts. I can't quit, not yet, but I feel like it's soon. Something's gotta give.