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I think it's almost impossible to live a genuine alternative lifestyle, because all your actions which one would consider to constitute an alternative lifestyle are actually just the same as all other actions when you take them out of the situation that they arise in, i.e. the people that you are around, the city you're in, the clothes you're wearing.
To illustrate, my behaviour as an 18 year old is considered mildly peculiar in Basingstoke from the perspective of, say a 50 year old or a 16 year old: I ride a SS (which is about to be fixed) absolutely everywhere, I don't want to drive, I like philosophy and politics and I'm going to do a chemistry degree (which always stumps people when I tell them if they ask!)
Basically you end up with actions or no actions, you do or you don't. The eccentricity or centricity of the person only arises in context.