you can do it, my current single contract pays 325k, and i'm just doing jquery(much to my dismay) and C# for it, all remote... been doin it for almost 3 years now. I live in a not very popoulated area . I've learned that there are plenty of very high paying jobs with a low bar..the things people go through to work for these big companies for such little pay and having to live in cities blows my mind. The best part is my current job leaves me lots of time for sidework to and to get experience in technologies i prefer to use.