**I am OK with simplifying but these people are nuts. What about when they get old and become disabled? Who is going to chop their wood and haul their water? A sprained ankle will mean that one of them has to do the work of two. When they get old they have to move to town and who pays their bills then?**
Well, the alternative is to stay in your homestead, like a half dozen of my ancestors, and drop dead where you stood, hauling a wheel barrow load of wood into the kitchen, in the middle of winter. Or you could be in a nice warm nursing home, with drool running down your chin sitting in a wet diaper with your own feces.
The choice is pretty simple, IMO.
I was speaking specifically about the people in the video. how far out in the boonies do they live? Do they have a job, any source of funds? What are they going to do when their boots wear out, their tools break, they need medical attention?
Lots of people continue to live in their country/farm home like they always did, that’s to be expected but that does not appear to apply to the couple in the video. They appear to have turned their back on society OR are they looking for a TV reality show?