I am considering it right now for exactly the same reason. I'm almost your age, but I don't have a family. I don't have anywhere near your savings but I've done this once before with almost nothing, and I didn't have any problem coming back to the job market after my multi-year "hiatus" when I ran my own company. I even took a multi-month "sabbatical" before returning to the job market to travel and party and be a slob and pursue my own interests (with basically no money), so there's a big hole in my work history. But nobody seemed to care except for a couple of companies which I wouldn't have enjoyed working at anyway. But I'll tell you the one thing: yolo.