Well, you didn't read my entire post before you decided to argue about something completely outside of that discussion. It would indeed be very silly for someone to go SAG outside of a major market. And if you can make a living off most of your gigs netting you ~$300 on 1099 contracts (which I mentioned I know two people who do) then bully for you.
So lets take a look at that. Voices.com will generally let you audition for about 4 projects a day depending on their algorithm and your membership stats. Most good VO talents score one paying gig per 34 auditions. So that's ~3.5 gigs/month.
Let's be generous and say you're hitting two major sites AND you're very good AND you never take a day off AND you're averaging ~$400/gig.
That's a pre tax income of $2800, but because it's 1099 work you're taxed about double and you're taking home ~$1850/month... Maybe that'll work if you have another job or you're also an on-camera actor or you live in a VERY low cost of living area. But any way you slice that, it's 240 auditions per month, plus gig time, for a pretty measly take home pay. Not worth it unless (as I said in my other post that you didn't read) it's only worth it if you think commercial reads are super fun. And hey, maybe you have a great gig or a great month sometimes, but you'll also have bad months.
A friend of mine was the voice of Wendy's a few years ago and ended up taking home about $160k after doing spots off and on for about a year and adding up his residuals... Union.
I was the voice of a law firm in Cincinnati I had never heard of off and on for about three years. Took home about $5k total for a pretty similar amount of work as my friend... Non-union gig. You tell me which sounds like a career and which one sounds like a hobby.
I also gave a very rough roadmap in my previous post about how one might go about getting on a path to making a lot of money by moving and getting repped, yadda yadda.
I get one or two of you every time I teach or write about the hard realities of this business. You think I'm telling you "no" and you don't want to hear it. I'm not telling you "no". I'm telling you the difficulties of the situation that you can either accept and move forward with you life with or without VO as a semi-professional hobby, or you can go balls-out and become an obsessive and MAYBE make a living at it. MAYBE.
Or maybe you are the special one who breaks through the impossible odds. It does happen in this business. But you're likely to be very disappointed and maybe make some very bad financial decisions if you deny the realities of this industry.