I'd love to live off the grid.
There's a woman on the horse forum that is. She lives off the grid on a little Island on the lee side of Vancouver Island. She has horses, a cute little dome house, and internet access. What more does a gal need?
Lot of people living off the grid in Vermont, too. The downside is that if you *do* want electric power, you have to deal with a generator.
And there's my gas phobia in the way of that. ;-)
If'n I met someone who was willing to deal with the generator, and had a way to get Internet...I could live off the grid pretty happily. After all, we had only wood heat at the house growing up. I know how to keep a wood fire going and that you can do a lot of cooking with just a wood stove.
Just Once (!) read through the following and count all the F's. Write down your answer and then highlight the spoiler font here--->There are six. You probably saw three or four. There really are six!>
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT
OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
More spoiler font: Supposedly you probably didn't count the "F" in the word "OF". Supposedly there's some brain cramp we all have that prevents us really counting "of" as a word.
Total weirdness.
Oh, and we also have a well and a septic tank at the house - no town water. I'd say that's a must for living out in the boonies. Only downside was that when there were really dry summers, we'd run out of water after a few showers or a couple loads of laundry. Had to pace things.
Not a huge inconvenience, though.