Good article. It reminds me of the more extreme offshoots of the FI community: people or couples living on 10k yearly in US or Western Europe, guys living out o

Good article. It reminds me of the more extreme offshoots of the FI community: people or couples living on 10k yearly in US or Western Europe, guys living out of their 1st gen Chevy Volts, and so on. In most circumstances, it'll never be worth paring back the conveniences of your life, because the time saved by convenience becomes more valuable as your labor/expertise becomes more valuable and your free time gets scarcer. But it seems healthy to remember that barebones living is an option.