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Local first at home and away
Being local isn't a zip code — it's a practice. At home, it's the habits: the café that knows your order, the shop you walk to instead of the big box, the neighbors whose names you actually know. Every dollar and every hour you spend close to home compounds into the place you live.
Away, local is a choice you carry with you. The same attention you'd want a visitor to pay your town — eat where the owners cook, buy from the people who made it, listen before you recommend. Travel done locally turns a trip into an exchange instead of a transaction.
This piece is about both sides of that coin: how to live local-first where you are, and how to stay local-first wherever you go.
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