Would You Ever Live Off Grid?😊🌱

Mary_Scope
Mary_Scope Posts: 5,968 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists
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I've fell down a Youtube rabbit hole and I have been watching a lot of homestead, off grid and tiny home channels lately.

A definition of off grid is "is setting up a home that is completely independent from public utilities like electricity, municipal water, and sewer system."

I would in theory like to live off grid. I do like the idea of the security of having my own water system and electricity etc in case anything went wrong with the public systems. However I think in practice I would find it very difficult and too time consuming!

I do like the tiny homes though😄They look much easier to clean!

What about you? Would you like to live off grid?

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  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,541 Online Community Team

    I think I'd struggle! If I could live somewhere where I could generate enough energy to at least heat the water then maybe… But I rely quite heavily on being able to keep warm and be clean. I'd need a decent outside space if I was going to live in tiny home too. I'm way too clumsy for small spaces 😄

    I can get on board with growing veg though and making things from scratch in a homesteady way! Probably not enough to live off everything I grow or make, but enough to supplement outside purchases.

  • Dynamisante
    Dynamisante Community Member Posts: 147 Contributor

    I would 100% live off grid, I was bought up living from the land, we ate everything we grew and bred, from head to toe, we grew everything (except oranges, lemons and bananas) but my father owned a fruit and veg shop so we still had all that, my absolute dream would be to go off grid even though I’m older now !

  • egiste2r
    egiste2r Posts: 245 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1151489#Comment_1151489

    Do you think you will be able to avoid paying a TV licence?🤔

  • Anhedonia2
    Anhedonia2 Community Member Posts: 361 Empowering

    If I could, I would. But I know I don't have the skill, knowledge or patience 😅

    I love the idea a lot though.

  • Point9
    Point9 Community Member Posts: 21 Listener

    If it was just me I would but I'd have to do it gradually by weaning myself off the National Grid's teat bit by bit rather than throwing the switch and waking up in the dark ages

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Community Member Posts: 3,738 Championing

    No - I love my home comforts too much !

    I rely on my internet connection, my Sky TV, My heating and hot water on tap, my freezer full of food - my electricity and gas, my phone line !

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