Assuming that you would be OK on MUCH less salary, and living in a remote area, why not give it a go? Having a supportive wife is half the battle already won.
If you completed your CPL in a round dial C182/C206 - rather than some useless touch screen plastic fantastic - you should be quite employable, as by then you would have about 400 hours. Some operators would prefer more mature pilots, as the young studs and studettes usually have airline ambitions and don't hang around long. After rent, you'd be able to afford one big romantic night a month dining out at Maccas followed by a glass or two of chateau box parked down by the creek (lock the car doors).
A season or two up north, add a MECIR and (unless the market crashes again), you should be ripe for a regional turbo prop gig. Depending on your base, that's not such a bad lifestyle.
If it does not work out, it seems like you could go back to the corporate world, having written off the experience knowing that it's better to go to your grave regretting the things you did, than those you did not do.