First, people who read hacker news are not "most people".
But more importantly "most people" live hand to mouth or have living arrangements that are on the fringe of what they can afford or are only a short time period away from hot having enough money to pay the mortgage.
The idea is to live your life in a way that you have the money to do something like this if you need to do it.
Almost impossible to say of course without knowing the specific person or not whether they should gamble the $1000 (arbitrary) that it might take to take this chance.
Note I also said that I had pre arranged a few interviews and contacts before making the trip.
First, people who read hacker news are not "most people".
But more importantly "most people" live hand to mouth or have living arrangements that are on the fringe of what they can afford or are only a short time period away from hot having enough money to pay the mortgage.
The idea is to live your life in a way that you have the money to do something like this if you need to do it.
Almost impossible to say of course without knowing the specific person or not whether they should gamble the $1000 (arbitrary) that it might take to take this chance.
Note I also said that I had pre arranged a few interviews and contacts before making the trip.