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YellowStar
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Eastern US
Joined: 2 yrs, 10 mos ago
18,528 Posts
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Saturday 11/5/11 - 4:38:41 PM EST (GMT-5)
Yes.
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Saturday 11/5/11 - 4:39:54 PM EST (GMT-5)
Of course! Why *wouldn't* someone be interested in that?
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Saturday 11/5/11 - 10:11:31 PM EST (GMT-5)
That's the dream.
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Saturday 11/5/11 - 10:14:48 PM EST (GMT-5)
I would like to, but have not done so.
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aldod
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60-69
Western US
Joined: 7 yrs, 9 mos ago
6,958 Posts
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Saturday 11/5/11 - 10:36:46 PM EST (GMT-5)
When I lived in Bulgaria, I spent some time in a house with no indoor plumbing, and which only got electricity in 1956. Does that count?
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Sunday 11/6/11 - 3:48:04 PM EST (GMT-5)
^^^ You're off the grid for sewage, on the grid for electricity.
How're you doing for water?
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Sunday 11/6/11 - 4:34:54 PM EST (GMT-5)
I would love it. The house I eventually build will be off the grid completely.
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Sunday 11/6/11 - 7:12:23 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Saturday 11/5/11 - 4:39:54 PM Spoonerism wrote:
Of course! Why *wouldn't* someone be interested in that? |
The cost? |
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sockillsman
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18-29
Southern US
Joined: 1 yr, 6 mos ago
4 Posts
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Sunday 11/6/11 - 7:17:09 PM EST (GMT-5)
In a damn instant. I want a farm house kind of thing in Tonga.
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Sunday 11/6/11 - 7:19:18 PM EST (GMT-5)
"Sustainable and off the grid as in has its own sources of water, energy, food, health care etc"
You're going to build and staff your own hospital?
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Sunday 11/6/11 - 8:42:19 PM EST (GMT-5)
Generally, off-the-grid does not include health care - just water, electricity, sewage.
It often, but not always, includes a garden, but usually being totally self-sufficient for food is not considered an aspect of being off-the-grid either.
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Sunday 11/6/11 - 9:08:23 PM EST (GMT-5)
This question is asking about a community, so there could be a few medics involved.
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aldod
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60-69
Western US
Joined: 7 yrs, 9 mos ago
6,958 Posts
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Sunday 11/6/11 - 9:48:27 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Sunday 11/6/11 - 3:48:04 PM Wanderer wrote:
^^^ You're off the grid for sewage, on the grid for electricity. How're you doing for water? |
I had to carry it from the spring. Maybe the center had some sort of system, but outlying areas of the village didn't. It was pretty remote. After I'd been there a couple of days, everyone wanted to know who the foreigner who'd visited their village was. I was the first since the gypsies arrived in the sixteenth century.
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ladiesfirst9
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18-29
Canada
Joined: 2 yrs, 10 mos ago
4,008 Posts
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Monday 11/7/11 - 10:21:47 PM EST (GMT-5)
Hmmm sounds like a cult lol. Ill stay where I am.
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Tuesday 11/8/11 - 4:17:38 AM EST (GMT-5)
On Sunday 11/6/11 - 9:08:23 PM Mat wrote:
This question is asking about a community, so there could be a few medics involved. |
Super. If I ever get cancer, that's what I want. F**k chemo, surgery and the best care the west can offer, I want 'a few medics' fumbling around trying to keep me alive. |
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IRLIteach
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30-39
Southern US
Joined: 6 yrs, 9 mos ago
26,843 Posts
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Tuesday 11/8/11 - 8:29:41 AM EST (GMT-5)
Partially? I'm intrigued by that. We already grow lots of our own food. ("Lots" by todays's non-farmer standards.) We're looking into buying adjacent property for my parents and one of my brothers and his family to move onto. The "family compound" aspect is appealing.
We're not interested in secluding ourselves and giving up the phone, Internet, etc. Going fully off-grid seems like something people do when they either don't care about anyone else or have such a small circle of friends and family that they don't need the grid.
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Tuesday 11/8/11 - 10:05:19 AM EST (GMT-5)
Seeing I want to live in an area that's as densely populated as possible without compromising my standard of living, it's unlikely that it'll happen.
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Monday 11/21/11 - 11:13:35 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Sunday 11/6/11 - 9:08:23 PM Mat wrote:
This question is asking about a community, so there could be a few medics involved. |
On Tuesday 11/8/11 - 4:17:38 AM Guilty_Spark wrote:
Super. If I ever get cancer, that's what I want. F**k chemo, surgery and the best care the west can offer, I want 'a few medics' fumbling around trying to keep me alive. |
Why all the drama? You would be able to see whatever doc you wanted to. |
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1 yr ago, 6 mos ago - Monday 11/21/11 - 11:17:16 PM EST (GMT-5)
I've never lived in an off grid community, but I've lived off grid a few times.
In Washington, we lived in an A-frame cabin with no electricity except the generator, which we'd turn on for about 35 minutes every other day to pump water up from the well. There was a root cellar to keep the perishables and an outhouse.
I cooked on a wood stove, and we heated our water for our baths on the wood stove.
We had a garden and a goat.
I loved it.
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DNJ
Female,
13-17
Eastern US
Joined: 1 yr, 6 mos ago
14,471 Posts
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1 yr ago, 3 mos ago - Tuesday 2/14/12 - 12:05:12 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Saturday 11/5/11 - 10:11:31 PM Mat wrote:
That's the dream. |
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