IMHO: I don't think living minimally is solely (or maybe even primarily) about what you cut out, but how you spend your time and value your life. If you want t

IMHO: I don't think living minimally is solely (or maybe even primarily) about what you cut out, but how you spend your time and value your life. If you want to live locally, I think it's more about building connections and community – local friends, shops, artists, musicians, workout studios, businesspeople, industry, ranchers, farmers, students, museums, city councils, etc. And that can look very different depending on where you live. "Local" in the Bay Area is going to be mostly techies. "Local" in rural middle-America is going to be ranchers and farmers. "Local" in some small outdoorsy town will be a lot of hikers, skiers, bikers, etc. The thing is... people can have all the things you mentioned above, but still live "minimally" because they don't focus on those things. They don't give more than a passing thought to those things, whether they have them or not. Their lives are too full of the things and people they love the most. It's not about what you cut out, but what you embrace. Chase (or find) your passions and the rest just naturally fall aside.