Building an off-grid homestead I am seriously thinking about building an off-grid house (!) I have a first draft. I need to learn CAD! I have a road map towards buying land and building. I concede might have to live with long commute and give up traveling and camping. I need to be strong to make this happen. It’s easy to stay in my run down apartment in suburbs. Why I’ve waited so long. Maybe too easy – I have less then 12 years until I’m 55 and can persue my own thing in early retirement. But is it the best option for me? Why off grid? Well, I’m not into contemporary society. I don’t have a television, home internet or air conditioning, and a keep my heat at 50 degrees all winter. It’s about freedom to have fires and shoot guns! I want to own land, but not be called a landowner, and a cabin, not hooked to electrical grid, farm, raise pigs for food and burn my own trash. I’m saving for a better tomorrow, hoping to make the leap to another freer state. Having acreage is important. Cornfields aren’t bad neighbors. Maybe though my vision has grown smaller and more local. Mobile homes are one an option. More on off-grid living. Getting closer working at my state job I am 16 years into my career and have made some significant progress in my life. I love my job. But I do wonder on all the things I’m missing out but saving sure makes me high. Maybe it will be different when I own my own land — the end of goal of all this saving. Camping with my solar on my truck, working remote in Adirondacks furthered my interest off-grid My jacked up Big Red truck with a camper shell was what got my started about living remote. Plus my love of fire and freedom to burn shit! 2020 into 2021 during the pandemic was a year of remote work. It was a struggle not having internet at home, worked a lot out of my truck. But I worked remotely from Horseshoe Lake which was super cool. Especially in a RED State where there are few restrictions on open burning, low taxes and guns Got to have the freedom to burn debris. I hate hauling all the crap to landfill. Fire is great if you got land. Generally I like the idea of owning land in a red state, particularly Idaho, Iowa, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin — and Midwest more generally. But I may settle for New York – it’s all about the f-ing money!
