I love GA, but I left it because of some of the reasons listed above. Got all my LAME tickets for retirement and got out. It's very difficult to make a living being a LAME in GA. This thread is a typical example of why being a GA LAME is a bad idea.
No support. Poor income stream. No training. Very few good mentors left. Couple that with the regulator hiding behind your bedroom door just hoping for a chance to send you to prison and fine you your life savings. No thanks.
I love the fact that there's a thread on the 'Cost of 100 hourly's'. As if any one is comparable to the next.
It's like when you sell a V8 and someone asks 'what kind of fuel economy does it get?'