Since beginning this I've become even more anti-materialistic and anti-consumerist than I was before. I don't think FI or frugality is what will actually make me FIRE as much as my growing and GROWING disgust for exhaust fumes, excess packaging, plastic waste, fast fashion, food waste, Wal-Mart, mindless consumerism, giant pickup trucks, unfair practices with farmers, Black Thursday, Boxing Day, shopping malls, loud TV commercials, oil dependency, people who spend like mad and whine about debt. I honestly want none of it anymore.
FI was originally the goal to escape work. Now a seething hatred of the mindless consumerism of the status quo is what will get me there and hopefully let me escape it all. Small, quiet town in France or some isolated beach place in Mexico? Yes, please.