I have this belief that if I buy a nice piece of land off in the country..

That despite how much the times shall change, despite what new gizmos gadgets and networks people should be subscribing to, no matter who is in office and what their plans are.. at least MY world will still look the same to me.. you know, until the sky turns red or some shit.

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rottenrobi · 56-60, F

Yes! Great minds think alike!
I will also be stepping onto property and hopefully off the grid. I better get on it, as I will need to be strong, but I'm gonna do it. Rottenrobi's space, a pleasant space with me and lots of dogs adopted dogs.

swirlie · 31-35, F

@rottenrobi

That's what I eventually did as well. I got off the grid, got off the city water, got off the matching sewer charge. The process is no more scary than being victimized by the Utility companies and the municipality. It's not harder, it's just different.

What's hard, is sitting at the kitchen table in the middle of a subdivision, waiting for the power to come back on as the grid goes down for maintenance, watching for lights to come on in your neighbor's windows. Problem is, you cannot even pump water from the well to flush the toilet if you are living out in the country and still on the grid. Country living can be almost dangerous, if you don't think it all the way through.

In the city, at least the toilet will still flush after the power goes out, but it's almost impossible to have a back yard full of adopted dogs!

But country living means that you can set things up to be totally independent of outside utility sources, which also means that you can have it all if you wanted to!