Living Off the Grid
- Started
- Last post
- 226 Responses
- colin_s0
alaska.
my dad has lived in a cabin in AK for 36 years. no running water. hunts for a primary source of meat (moose, sheep etc). i was born up there, go back now and again. too addicted to cities to live off the grid for now, but i fully intend on getting back to AK for awhile at some point in my life.
- ukit20
Is your goal to escape from society, or just to save money by not having to pay rent/mortgage?
- CGN1
- Gnash0
i just lost out on this property:
http://rickkennedy.com/HobbyFarm…Looking at another one this weekend
- ukit20
Another option might be relocate overseas somewhere where the cost of living is extremely low.
- yurimon0
check this documentary.. this guy built a cabin by himself..
- cannonball19780
^^ you may want to consider an area that doesn't get snow. Not having to adapt energy usage to cyclical seasons is a plus.
- scarabin0
there are so many fun problems to solve... irrigation, power, waste... i was telling my gf yesterday how my brain would go apeshit over building our own place in the wilderness like this
- +1Gnash
- Hey, what was the cost of your solar set-up? how many watts do you average?Gnash
- i can spend around 8,040 watts in ideal sun safely (50% battery capacity, to protect battery life). priced out the parts in my original post's commentsscarabin
- post's comments abovescarabin
- that's 8040 watts per day i meanscarabin
- pinkfloyd0
Yeah, designing your own home environment and furniture would be fun.
- exador10
any of the old-timers here (like me) remember bio-freak?
i think he did something like this a while back..
here's his site, which i think chronicles some of his experiences...
http://lifeinsepia.com/
- pinkfloyd0
I thought of a mobile home, but then you have to pay lot rent everymonth. If you buy a house, you have to pay property tax. Is there a third way where I just pay a one time fee, and not deal with bills?
- yurimon0
Check out the father of permaculture. He could grow lemons in Alps by setting up a micro climate using water, rocks etc...
Sepp Holzer