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Ruth says:

February 6, 2012 at 5:03 pm
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For mleysf, “living off the grid” doesn’t have anything to do with energy independence. It has everything to do with “independence”, period. Some of us have played by the rules, studied hard, gotten good jobs, a wife, maybe children; and simply not found happiness or have felt that by following the norms of society, we are just a rat spinning in a wheel. Freedom through independence and self-sufficiency and reaping 100% of what one sows is happiness. Working too much and giving the bulk of our efforts to the company, the tax man, the bank, etc. is not happiness. Having time for ourselves and enjoying simple life is happiness. So, in short, “living off the grid”, for me, is finding happiness through simplicity.
Egar says:

February 6, 2012 at 10:23 pm
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Living off the grid is smoething I’ve wanted to do since before my children were born & now that they are in the horrible world I want so badly to start making that dream become reality. Living off the land, growing your own food, supplying your own electricity & water, not being hounded by the government or being annoyed by drama & gossip in the world. We live in an apartment complex and we just hate it. People are rude & hateful in the world today. I grew up in the South & we farmed our own food but that all fell apart some years before I moved out and I miss that. We rarely went to the store. We had chickens for eggs & we had apple, pear & plum trees in the backyard. A simple life that we can be proud of & in the process teaching my children real values that will stay with them their entire lives is what I want to achieve by living off the grid. I somehow think it will remain a dream for many years before I’m financially stable to embark on that journey & this makes me very sad because I would like to start ASAP! Have a good day & good luck on everyone’s journey or lifestyle of living off the grid…
- Joseph says:
  
  March 8, 2012 at 5:24 pm
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  I love all the replies on here, to me, living off the grid is living exactly how you want to. In my case, the statement at the top covers most of it: Being a ghost to the government. Living under the radar. Staying on the move. Being as free as free can get in today’s society. Dropping out of society. No taxes. No Job. Minding your own business and expecting the rest of the world to do the same. The only things I would change about that are staying on the move’ I’d like to live in a little village of like-minded people, a hobbit village if you will and dropping out of society’. I wouldn’t want to be a hermit I may not be super social all the time but I like having people around. Honestly the lord of the rings movie would be heavenly for me.Like most of you on here I’m working my way toward it slowly this summer I plan on building a small hobbit house type thing in the woods behind my parents’ house in northwestern Ontario and trying to live there as independently as I can. That way I can learn the skills of living mostly outdoors without it being a do or die’ situation, and hopefully by the end of the summer I’ll be doing pretty well. I’ll try to go the whole summer without using my computer as well check my email once a week at the library or whatever. I plan on working a regular job too while I do that. In September I’ll take my last year of university, and then use my teaching degree to emigrate to new zealand. then, once I’m well-established there, I can hopefully buy enough land to build myself a more or less permanent hobbit house and become self-sufficient. It’s a long shot, maybe, but worth a try.If it wasn’t for our oh-so-lovely canadian winters here, I’d probably just go for it right here. I love new zealand, though, and its climate is better suited to being self-sufficient. Well hope you all wanted to hear about my life plans. The very best of luck to anybody who’s going for it, and being off the grid!!!