Without technology life often is incredibly cheap and thus affordable. The mroe simple we create our life, the more affordable life becomes. The art of life - savoir vivre - is to know how much or how little technology we really need without endangering quality of life or happiness in life.
A simple life always is a life fully integrated into nature and thus also a life far more healthy and natural than high tech life of the "first world". Try simple life and you may start to enjoy life again as it was hundreds of years ago.
In simple life we have again time for each other, time for love, time for family, time for needy ones, time for neighbors and time for socializing. In simple life we have again time for happiness amidst neighbors, friends and family.