The "Off the grid" homestead meme is so gay and tiresome

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

Living off the grid is nice to talk about but 99% of people who say they want to do it are entirely too dependent on the grid to thrive, myself included. I’d thrive for about a day before I realize I’m too much of a pussy to actually do things like hunting and dressing a deer.

My preference would be to buy a good bit of acreage outside a decently sized town and then pimp the place out with good internet, a couple subscriptions, the full O&A audio archive, a nice saltwater pool, a manageable vegetable garden, some cool trees and plants, well water, a spot to shoot clays/targets, a nice garage, etc.

That way I can be isolated from the masses but also have amenities, access to decent services like healthcare, and am within driving distance of restaurants, golf courses, and Costco.

Pretending my life would be better without that stuff is a lie. I’m too much of an over educated suburbanite to start living like it’s 1905.

You don't have to be completely self sufficient to technically be off grid. The guy I know who's been doing it forever has a couple gardens, goats and a bunch of fowl but I the majority of their food came from the store and they weren't making like deer hide clothing or anything. It's just basically you don't have power without a generator. As mentioned, solar is unreliable as fuck.

 

[FrogmanKurlan]

I’ve always had a dream of becoming part of the grid. You know the old saying “ If you can’t beat them. Join them.”
Find land with a played out oil well. Most of them will still pump out natural gas even though all the oil is gone, and hook up a natural gas generator to it. Sell what power I don’t use back to the grid. Fuck you pay me

 

[TorpidSloth]

Living off the grid is nice to talk about but 99% of people who say they want to do it are entirely too dependent on the grid to thrive, myself included. I’d thrive for about a day before I realize I’m too much of a pussy to actually do things like hunting and dressing a deer.

My preference would be to buy a good bit of acreage outside a decently sized town and then pimp the place out with good internet, a couple subscriptions, the full O&A audio archive, a nice saltwater pool, a manageable vegetable garden, some cool trees and plants, well water, a spot to shoot clays/targets, a nice garage, etc.

That way I can be isolated from the masses but also have amenities, access to decent services like healthcare, and am within driving distance of restaurants, golf courses, and Costco.

Pretending my life would be better without that stuff is a lie. I’m too much of an over educated suburbanite to start living like it’s 1905.

Loopy is a great word, especially when used about a woman. Going to use it more

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

I’ve always had a dream of becoming part of the grid. You know the old saying “ If you can’t beat them. Join them.”

We all dream of becoming one with the machine.

 

[FrogmanKurlan]

We all dream of becoming one with the machine.

 

['THE NIGGER MAN']

Off-grid is much more doable with lithium batteries, as opposed to the janky golf cart FLA setup Cleetus has here. Cleetus is a shed hobo.

For all the comforts of home - batteries/solar/charger-inverter/backup generator you'll have $40k + to live the same way as you do 'on grid'.

 

[Dog Eater]

This man loves the GRID

He chases it.

 

[GialloGlove]

There's nothing wrong with putting some distance between you and the modern world, but it's ironic when people who are supposedly "off the grid" have YouTube channels and Reddit accounts. Also, you don't have to go full on hermit to get away from a lot of the bullshit. Small town life is pretty close to the same thing, but at least you're still part of a community.

I live in a small farming community of only a few thousand people and it's pretty great. There was a parade this past weekend on the main route through town. Every local farm had a flat bed trailer turned float, we had our local PD and FD out there and even the American Legion post. It was so fucking wholesome. My wife maintains a garden and we just made a huge batch of pickles from the cukes we harvested. There's no fast food - a McDonald's that's 10 minutes away - and the local bar usually has a few old timers just sitting with guitars trading songs. It's PFG. I didn't think towns like this still existed before moving here.

I live in Southern Virginia, coastal Maryland and North Carolina still have these areas in spades. I love them. Nothing wrong with peace and quiet and a boring life. I still want electricity and porn though. Just no traffic.

 

[Voscabulary]

The only dude I've ever seen do it comfortably was this absolute psycho guy I worked with who was jacked, got Lyme disease and lost a ton of weight and would pull a .38 special on anyone who pissed him off. He was made to live in a shack deep in the woods with 16 inbred dogs. He also had a loopy, beaten dog of a wife who would take care of a lot of shit while he was away.

all of your stories sound like the premise to a primus song

 

[Sgt Zogbot Delta Operator]

There's this one dumb cunt on Twitter who infuriates me.

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She lives on this big fucking property in a big fucking house in Idaho or something and larps as a self-made, self-reliant homesteader. But she's like 24 and obviously inherited everything she has. She gussies herself up and milks cows and frolics in the field and films herself for social media all day.

It's just so fucking annoying.

 

[Sgt Zogbot Delta Operator]

I just remembered, last time I saw my dad he was telling me about my dyke cousin and her dyke girlfriend planning on selling their dyke house and getting a dyke RV to travel around in for a while before buying a farm.

What a lofty fucking pipedream. The one got hit by a car and got a bunch of money for that and my cousin is a vet tech but just quit her job, so obviously traveling and settling down on a farm is the way to go. Neither of these cunts have ever lived or worked on a farm. They got a few chickens and decided they have it all figured out.

And they have nowhere to go. Like it sounds like they plan on just aimlessly driving around. You can't just pull onto the shoulder of the road and sleep there for a night. Have fun sleeping in Walmart parking lots, stinking, never having a second to yourself and murdering eachother, cunts.

What's with lesbians and RVs?

 

[Steve Ramone]

I get why people do it. Modern life can feel empty. Maybe being self sufficient fills that hole, but probably not.

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

I get why people do it. Modern life can feel empty. Maybe being self sufficient fills that hole, but probably not.

It's not realistic for the majority of modern people to put in the work it takes to be self sufficient. It's pretty much a full time job and you still need money.

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

Maybe being self sufficient fills that hole

I make homemade buttplugs.

 

[JoeCumiawearsDIAPERS]

You don't have to be completely self sufficient to technically be off grid. The guy I know who's been doing it forever has a couple gardens, goats and a bunch of fowl but I the majority of their food came from the store and they weren't making like deer hide clothing or anything. It's just basically you don't have power without a generator. As mentioned, solar is unreliable as fuck.

Fair enough - that much I could manage. I feel like a lot of these YouTube douchers act like they’re churning their own butter and milking cows when they say they’re off the grid so I figured the definition changed at some point and no one told me. Glad to see I’m not that out of touch

 

[goo gobbler]

i hate it the most when a fag like tim pool says it, like his multi million dollar compound and turn key animals (chickens) are DIY living off the grid maannn

 

[PickleRickle]

i hate it the most when a fag like tim pool says it, like his multi million dollar compound and turn key animals (chickens) are DIY living off the grid maannn

 

[BUBBLER]

- Buy "locally sourced" produce from inbred meth heads who regularly piss and pour PBR on their "crops", then spray 10 pounds of pesticide on them before throwing them into their pickup truxk to trade at the market

Go to farmers market: some blue haired cunt covered in tattoos trying to sell you tomatoes and cheese for 3x the price

 

[StlakerFatti]

bunker life is where it's really at

 

[whyarewedoingthisagain_mybb]

I went to school with a guy who does this dumb shit. He was recently boasting about building an "off grid pool". When pressed for more info, he said he dug a hole, put a tarp in it, and then filled it with creek water.

what do you think a pool is?