Most people are better off buying a tiny house and living car free.
If you want to eliminate stress and a debt its a manageable way to live without going off the grid.
The middle ground works well for most people who want a simpler lifestyle.
yep....the beauty of living “off the grid” in town is you pay the greedy federales less and less in taxes....now that’s what I call living off the grid....of course, it requires that you a more simple, and probably better, life.
That might work if you live in NYC but most people cannot walk to where they need to go.
This might work for younger people, but not seniors with health issues. At 75 not many are going to chop wood. We did down size the housing. Got a smaller house with a big back yard. If communications goes out we have Ham Radio.
We live semi small town rural as it is, a car is a necessity not a luxury as are cell phones and a zip line for the computer. No land line.
Moles destroyed my strawberry patch this last summer, as we have 2 dogs poison was out and not much else works, and health did the rest of the number on my gardening. And living in the 100+ degree heat and humidity of the South is hard on a garden. Even tried big kiddie swimming pools on stands, heat got the green beans, despite adequate soil and water. Ditto for growing tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets. Only thing that thrived was the blackberries, but as they are only 1 year old canes no real production, that comes in yr 3.
You need a lot of land to produce a adequate for a family garden, and to know how to can.