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Offline josefamenendez

Re: 5 years off-grid wood home
« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2022, 02:10:44 PM »
Quote from: Ascetik on January 18, 2022, 10:03:11 AM
Easy to do when you have no kids.
True that
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Offline Pax Vobis

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Re: 5 years off-grid wood home
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2022, 02:35:35 PM »
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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Offline Nadir

Re: 5 years off-grid wood home
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2022, 02:44:14 PM »
Quote from: Ascetik on January 18, 2022, 10:03:11 AM
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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Offline bodeens

Re: 5 years off-grid wood home
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2022, 06:39:50 PM »
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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Offline Ascetik

Re: 5 years off-grid wood home
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2022, 06:51:11 PM »
Quote from: Nadir on January 18, 2022, 02:44:14 PM
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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