Results: Future-proofing yourself
With prices going up on everything, off-grid living starts to sound more and more appealing. It's something I had considered for a long time, but my wife doesn't agree. I still like to think about it, but from a practical sense, I doubt I will ever do it.
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Have you ever given off-grid living a thought? I live off grid now!
3%
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41 votes
I'm planning for it now.
4%
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50 votes
I'd love to, but not practical for me
21%
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265 votes
Nice concept, but too extreme for me
24%
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309 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
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25 votes
I have commitments that prevent me from doing it.
4%
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57 votes
No thanks!
41%
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523 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.63% | 8 | |
| maybe | 0.08% | 1 |
| ... | 0.08% | 1 |
| Use to live off grid years ago it gets old after awhile | 0.08% | 1 |
| Lived off Grid more than once for 2-3 years | 0.08% | 1 |
| Yes | 0.08% | 1 |
| Great! Especially when Israel zaps our grid and blames it on Iran. | 0.08% | 1 |
| It's a bigger job than what people think | 0.08% | 1 |
| If I were younger I might give it a try | 0.08% | 1 |
| I GREW UP OFF GRID IN THE 1960 AND I DO NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO THAT IT ALL SOUNDS GOOD PUT THERE IS TOO MUCH UP KEEP. IT IS GREAT WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG BUT AGE AND HEALTH DOES NOT ALWAYS GO ALONG WITH THE PLAN | 0.08% | 1 |
| I do it in the summertime. | 0.08% | 1 |
| I have in the past, and may again | 0.08% | 1 |
| I do not use Social Media | 0.08% | 1 |
| Would be nice | 0.08% | 1 |
| If only it were possible | 0.08% | 1 |
| Yes, I've thought about it | 0.08% | 1 |
| there are no hospitals for those who live off the grid | 0.08% | 1 |
| When I was younger I would have tried it. | 0.08% | 1 |
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The old concepts for off grid living sound like going back to 15th century living and giving up on society. But it doesn't really need to be that way. Sure, initial investment will be higher, but you can have electricity to power a nice home, satellite internet for staying connected and quite a lot of tools/automation to help with the work around the homestead. You still need to work a lot, but things are improving considerably. Would you consider off-grid living if your house still maintains all the modern feel? Yes
27%
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344 votes
No
40%
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508 votes
Undecided
33%
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418 votes
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The biggest draw-back in off-grid single-home builds is that regardless how you build it, you can't escape working to get food. Not even for a short while. The concept of self-sufficient communities has steadily been gaining interest. Basically, multiple families pool their resources to build together and share in the work. This has the benefit of allowing you to rest when sick, maybe even take "vacations" and pool expertise with other people too (i.e. plumbing vs electric work vs green thumb vs raising animals and so on). And with multiple families pooling their resources together, the end goal of becoming self sufficient becomes much more attainable. Would you consider such a community? No, I like my life as it is.
29%
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369 votes
No, it still seems far off to me.
12%
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151 votes
I need medicine that this type of a community can't get.
9%
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113 votes
No, it's not something I'm interested in.
11%
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145 votes
No, I actually prefer being alone.
9%
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110 votes
Yes, but I don't know enough people to pair with.
5%
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60 votes
Yes, but I don't have the finances or skills to do it.
5%
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64 votes
Yes, currently working on it/being part of such a community
1%
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16 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
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23 votes
Not Applicable
17%
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219 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.48% | 5 | |
| Undecided | 0.19% | 2 |
| done that 50+ years ago | 0.10% | 1 |
| Did and can do it again and we are prepared to and have Multigenetional family already helping | 0.10% | 1 |
| No, I'm too old (80). | 0.10% | 1 |
| Yes | 0.10% | 1 |
| Amish life with modern "necessities". | 0.10% | 1 |
| That's the very definition of communism, which is a proven failure. The settlers at Jamestown tried it, and when they began to starve they went to an every-man-for-himself way of living. | 0.10% | 1 |
| Maybe, if it's the right people | 0.10% | 1 |
| Way too old and broke and broken | 0.10% | 1 |
| Disabled | 0.10% | 1 |
| I don't believe in raising animals for food | 0.10% | 1 |
| Depends on who is in the community | 0.10% | 1 |
| no it's not the utopia you picture it to be. | 0.10% | 1 |
| sounds like hippie communes from the 60s, 70s, | 0.10% | 1 |
| I'm sure it will run smoothly like Mamdummy's New York LOL | 0.10% | 1 |
| Yes, but only if everyone liked to fart out loud. | 0.10% | 1 |
| no hospitals anymore off the grid places | 0.10% | 1 |
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As technology advances and gets smarter and cheaper, things will be a lot easier to build off grid settlements (alone or in a community). Which of these advancements have you heard of? Hydroponic farming
42%
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534 votes
Vertical farming
30%
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387 votes
Closed system container farming (i.e. fully automated)
11%
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135 votes
Humanoid robots for farming.
7%
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83 votes
Farmbot -- automated farming with open source robotics
5%
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69 votes
IoT appliances (house appliances that can be controlled via an app or the internet)
13%
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167 votes
Other (please specify)
0%
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6 votes
Not Applicable
37%
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472 votes
Atmospheric Water Generators
4%
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56 votes
Smart Rainwater Harvesting (like RainWise)
17%
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222 votes
Smart Organic Biodegraders (like Lomi composters)
6%
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73 votes
Starlink internet
28%
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350 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.19% | 4 | |
| none of these | 0.05% | 1 |
| none | 0.05% | 1 |
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