Living Off The Grid

[Bazile]

I've been watching a lot of these programmes about people living in Alaska hundreds of miles from anywhere . Some of them on their own .

And the harsh conditions they endure during winter .

Would you live off the grid as above , if you had the chance ?

[jno]

not in Alaska. Maybe in a Tesco car park.

[Bazile]

With lots of provisions to hand , eh jno.

None of this hunting your own bear for food ,during the winter

[jno]

and no bear hunting me either.

[bookbinder]

Not me. I like my home comforts to be near at hand, not miles away.

[nicebloke1]

These programs serm to have kicked off a bit a craze in the UK. Theres a facebook page on living off grid. But I dont think anyone has told them, you just cant park anywhere, thats worth parking with a view, without being hit with overnight fees. Not even on Tesco car park. £100 fine at most.)

[nicebloke1]

Seem^^^

[Bazile]

Homestead living ,they call it .

There was one guy who lived on his own on an island .

His 'neighbours' brought him a bullock type animal to keep him company

[nicebloke1]

All the ones on face book take photos of their vans and where they are, but its always in the summer months an d the sun blazing. I have asked them what its like in the winter months, but no one answers. Many park up on pub car parks, providing they eat and drink in the pub, they can park for free???

[MissTerious2]

I might have done when I was young and bold and up for adventures. Not in Alaska though!

[Atheist]

How do they take photos? And how do they disseminate their photos? I think that they don't have a clue about what living off the grid means. Do they live in the Australian outback? Or the Brazilian jungle? It's just a craze (or "fad" as the NY cab driver described it in "This is Spinal Tap".

[andy-hughes]

No. I'm a city boy, I like the country in small doses.

[douglas9401]

It's possible to live off the grid in a civilised country that has no deadly predators just waiting to dine on the homeowner.

And no need for gushing annoyances with great teeth wielding sundry implements with gusto. :-)

[Old_Geezer]

Not seen these progs. Being off grid seems to have both advantages and disadvantages. One doesn't have to put up with other people, but on the other hand, when you need assistance it isn't there. I think a flavour of it whilst being able to stay in touch seems ok. Sat TV & Net would be nice. Otherwise how would you learn to live off grid ? And when the crops failed one would need a Miller & Carter nearby.

[nicebloke1]

Living off grid in USA, yes that can be done. In the UK, I dont think thats possible is it?

[NYAD]

When I was growing up, my mother's favorite expression was, "It's all true where it happened." As a kid, that didn't mean much to me. Now that I've had a number of decades as an adult, I see (or hear) it in so many forms. The real "off the grid" is only for the very few. How many of us could really give up food from a store, drugs from a pharmacy, electricity, telephones, automatic heat? How many of us could do all the labor that's needed to support our life? How many of us give up an income that would enable us to live into our old age? The "crowd" would thin out pretty quickly.

[NYAD]