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A global pandemic, rapid climate change, and economic instability are leading more people to live off the grid and be self-sufficient. While online content glamorizes the lifestyle, experienced homesteaders warn it’s not as easy as it looks.
Off-the-grid living was once an oddity reserved for dedicated survivalists
Living off-grid conjures images of survivalists in remote places and a rustic, “Little House on the Prairie” lifestyle with chores from morning to night. Yet only a tiny fraction of people living off-grid do it like that, and fewer still live more than an hour from any town.
Today’s off-grid living encompasses everything from “dry camping” in RVs to swank Santa Barbara estates
Off-the-grid living was once an oddity reserved for dedicated survivalists. But there are many ways to live off-grid and more people looking into it.