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      A well, septic tank, and solar can replace water, sewer, and electrical utilities. ATVs, dirt bikes, and snowmobiles (depending on location) make roads unnecessary. What other infrastructure do you need?

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        Depending on age you’ll need medicine and heat/AC. Fridge or some way to preserve food( yeah there’s ways to do that without electricity). Guess most of this is under electric utilities, but it’s hard to get consistent electricity and batteries are expensive

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          For just running a fridge and lights you don’t need too much solar/battery. They have 12v compressors now that are pretty efficient and blow absorption fridges out of the water in cooling. AC is a beast though. No getting around that. Heat could be wood, Propane gche or whatever. Not electric.

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            I did see a guy make a cooler with a cistern, pump and radiator. Water in the cistern/well is cold most of the year. Guess you just have to drain it in the winter, but yeah I’d say batteries can be a money sink.

            Also I did kill a lot of batteries by hooking them in parallel to a bad 12v battery, buuut that’s just me saying battery system can go for a lot

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          You don’t understand actual honest to god hermits then.

          My wisdom tooth is going to kill me because I’d rather die than have someone touch me. I’m not kidding.

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          Yes, but even living across the street from a hospital doesn’t guarantee you will have access to medical care. Plenty of people who live in the city can’t afford an ambulance or hospital stay.

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      My vote is for non-ai. Look at those rocking chairs. They actually make sense. Even the best image models would trip up on complex geometry like that. Also the window on the top right. You can see through to the window on the opposite side of the cabin and see some of the green foliage through it. It looks very “abrupt” in the sense that I don’t think that a model trying to come up with the most statistically likely image would just put a fragment of green in the window like that.

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      A composting toilet is all I want and need.

      • No clogging
      • No splashing
      • No waste of water
      • No smell

      I always hate to use a plumbed toilet when we visit friends or family.

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        Do u mean 2 sticks and a hole in the ground type of outhouse? 1 stick to put your pants on and second one to fight off bears while u poop?

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    Would like a variant on this, the bugs and darkness of the woods would drive me insane:

    • On a field, farming optional
    • Add a soldering station, solar panels, well with pump, and septic tank
    • Perimeter tripwires and defense (nobody’s coming to help if something happens)
    • Tornado shelter with medical supplies and a healthy supply of 3D filament

    And I’ll finally be able to complete everything on my bucket list that doesn’t involve travelling.

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      Once you get used to them and if you live north of the Malaria regions, mosquitos aren’t such a big deal. If you keep getting stung, eventually you will barely notice.

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      I was going g to comment how I have the thing pictured, but that it comes with several real drawbacks. Not just mosquitoes either. Imagine having to buy and operate your own snow plow to leave the house in winter. Or buying groceries in bulk because the nearest Walmart is a three hour drive.

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        May - blackflies

        June - mosquitoes and blackflies

        July - mosquitoes and deer flies

        August - mosquitoes, deer flies, and horse flies

        September - All of the above, and start to worry about stuff freezing.

        October - Whew, I can finally work outside

        November - Start the fire, and keep it going until April.

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          Ok where I live it’s :

          Jan - snow and first sunrise of the year

          Feb - snow

          Mar - snow

          April - snow

          May - snow followed by two weeks of thaw, last sunset for 2 months and one week of spring

          Jun - warm but no bugs

          Jul - where has all my blood gone (mosquitoes and horsefly) sun starts setting again

          Aug - same exsanguination issues as July

          SEP - too cold for bugs lol

          Oct - snow

          Nov - Snow last sunrise of the year

          Dec - snow

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        Totally agree. But how much those drawbacks affect you also depends a lot on where you are located geographically.

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          All would be solved by me building my own metro line from the shack to the nearest city.

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      This right here. Just disappear into the woods and forget about the doomscroll in its entirety.

      If one day you wake up in your cabin to a bright flash in the sky so be it, and least you had a good life.

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      I did it for nearly 3 years with limited access.

      You get over it eventually and start living life instead of watching other people live theirs.

      I can’t wait to unplug again.

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          A friend inherited off-grid property. I was already into the idea of homesteading and survivalism and had been building those skills sets for years. What started as a little bit of helping on the weekends turned into full time living. I didn’t think I could do it and it was hard.

          But now I know what I’m capable of and how much nicer life is when you live it. I’ve been back in regular society for a few years and my phone is still on ‘do not disturb’ mode all the time.

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              Yeah i have notifications silenced as they are a stupid distraction.

              I have a tablet for work that I rarely use so I leave it for the kids to play on. Everytime i look at it there is hundreds of notifications from games they play. How are the kids meant to get anything done if they keep getting interrupted.