Could you live 'Off The Grid'

[smeggypants]

Could you live 'Off The Grid'

I couldn't live without technology, but I kind of envy this woman ....

Meet Mrs Bilbo Baggins: Oxford graduate quit mainstream society to live a hobbit-style existence in mud hut in the Welsh hills

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... hills.html

[Channel Hopper]

This was the last man to get on the grid, apparently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20821291

[Resonance]

I'd love to try it, but probably not long term. I reckon it does bring a kind of freedom that mainstream society lacks. No bills to speak of, basically just enough to feed and clothe yourself. Could get a bit boring though? Plus normal stresses may be replaced by **Shit the hens haven't laid today, what the hell am I going to eat**

[smeggypants]

This was the last man to get on the grid, apparently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20821291

We didn't get electric at our house until I was 5 years old. I remember when we first got a TV. Amazing technology

[phild05]

Our ancestors used to live like that centuries ago, good luck to her
I couldn't do it, too fond of creature comforts.

[smeggypants]

If I had to do it, I'd want to do it in somewhere like this ....







By 'eck! It's Yorkshire's Robinson Crusoe: Brit who bought a cut-price island in the Seychelles 50 years ago... and still lives in blissful solitude with 120 giant tortoises

[Unfortunately]

Two months ago, I encountered a homeless guy outside Tesco who was living off the grid in some nearby woods in a similar way to the woman in the picture in the first post but without the hens.