I lived off of $750 for three months backpacking in Europe in '10. I wouldn't consider it "below the poverty line" because I was often staying with people/families/friends/strangers with nice houses. But I did have to hitchhike from Sofia to Berlin to catch my flight back to the US. I sold a bunch of stuff for food on the way. It was all very liberating and I felt like I could live like that forever, at the time.
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