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Traditional Catholic Faith => The Catholic Bunker => Topic started by: DigitalLogos on January 17, 2022, 05:13:14 PM
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Really cool what this Brit did with his land and about £3000
https://youtu.be/lSt96KFFHxA
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Beautiful! Happy man! Great achievement.
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Really cool what this Brit did with his land and about £3000
https://youtu.be/lSt96KFFHxA
Off-grid really on the brain, eh?
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Off-grid really on the brain, eh?
A little. Mostly YouTube suggesting me things to dream about :laugh1:
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For me it’s nostalgia!
(https://i.imgur.com/8zhcJZ9.jpg)
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Awesome...we are also ooff grid...a lot of work but glad to be here
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Really cool what this Brit did with his land and about £3000
https://youtu.be/lSt96KFFHxA
I wish I had a nickel for every guy who did something similar -- built a tiny home, lived in an RV, built some exotic residence which is cheap, off-grid, and/or debt free.
A great start, sure.
But where do you put the natural-sized number of kids in that thing? Without contraception, most healthy couples marrying before age 30 will have 6+ children.
Like smart cars (which are great on gas, I'll concede!), they do NOTHING for me, with my 9 kids.
If I was single -- especially "terminally single" (looking like marriage is never going to happen) I'd certainly want to simplify my life in this way. But you need space and land to raise children properly. A bit of isolation from the world, too.
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I guess the best way is to buy your land as a single guy and start building.
Generally you start out with one child, then extend as the family grows.
Except for his use of the plural pronoun we don’t much. I had friends who did what he did, and sadly they could not conceive.
Every family I know who lives off grid started off with one child.
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Yes- I've been following him off and on for a couple of years. The way he built his power source is amazing.He's built a whole "complex" since then.
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Easy to do when you have no kids.
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Easy to do when you have no kids.
True that
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I think the point of these videos is a "proof of concept" that simple/off-grid living is possible. Most that do it, don't have large families, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't work for large families. Just build the house bigger, make the solar bigger, make the hydroelectric system bigger.
The issue is one would have to start a project with future growth of family in mind. That's easier said than done.
The main problem is the banking/construction industries aren't set up to loan/build these kinds of properties. But it's definitely possible, with planning.
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Easy to do when you have no kids.
Kids provide motivation. The off-grid folk I know do so out of necessity. It is a struggle and an adventure. No need for entertainment.
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I bought a small house and I will have to graduate the kids to the bunkhouses when they get old enough ;)
I think having something is better than nothing, I am not going to fool myself into thinking that I'd be better off if I waited to go off-grid.
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Kids provide motivation. The off-grid folk I know do so out of necessity. It is a struggle and an adventure. No need for entertainment.
Kids provide motivation sure, but they also fall into ponds, scream, cut their hands, run away. It'd be easy to do something like this if you started when you only had one child or are just married but going into the bush and building a place and trying to be as self sufficient as possible is extremely difficult and costs a good bit of money to get there. Try doing this with 4 kids under 7 and a husband working full time. It'd take an insane amount of work.
I would love to be off grid in some remote location, but I'd also like to be relatively close to mass and other traditional Catholics too, the latter is more important to me.
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Kids provide motivation sure, but they also fall into ponds, scream, cut their hands, run away. It'd be easy to do something like this if you started when you only had one child or are just married but going into the bush and building a place and trying to be as self sufficient as possible is extremely difficult and costs a good bit of money to get there. Try doing this with 4 kids under 7 and a husband working full time. It'd take an insane amount of work.
I would love to be off grid in some remote location, but I'd also like to be relatively close to mass and other traditional Catholics too, the latter is more important to me.
I agree, but kids can get themselves into trouble anywhere. We started off with one, who was just 12 months old, and one due in 6 months. That was not easy, 3000kms from family and friends. With 4 under 7, that would be difficult.
Let’s face it, we can never expect to be self-sufficient so that is not the issue. We are talking about being off-grid and this is not as expensive as many think. Of course, if you want all the city comforts that is different. It depends on your skills, imagination and ability to improvise and to do without, as illustrated in the OP.
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This might be a more realistic image of how it might be for self-sufficient off the gridders escaping persecution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68