{"title":"3 Levels of Off The Grid Living","description":"\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eToday, we’re going to\ntalk about three (3) types of off the grid living: these are three\nrealistic options, and basically these are three different levels of\noff the grid living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eThe first level is\n\troughing it completely, I mean, that’s where you build just a\n\tbasic shack with no running water; you don’t hook up to\n\telectricity and you are more or less camping with a shack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eThe next level would\n\tbe sort of a hybrid off the grid level where you’re half-in-half\n\twhere you’re connected to the grid, maybe just for power, but you\n\thave a well, your own septic tank; you’re largely off grid, you’re\n\tstill using the supermarket let’s say but you’re trying to move\n\ttowards off the grid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eThis is where many\n\tof off the grid-ers are, they’re trying to develop a more\n\tself-sustaining lifestyle, but they’re holding on to electricity\n\tin some of the grid for the transition period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eAnd then three,\n\tthere’s sort of the modern off the grid lifestyle: That’s where\n\tyou fully go off the grid,  you’re self-supported, but it’s very\n\tmodern; you’ve got solar for electricity or you’ve got wind for\n\telectricity, you’ve got both, you’ve got battery backups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eSolar is getting less and\nless expensive every year and financing is very low on solar, so, it\nmakes it makes a lot of sense to invest in solar and it will make\nmore and more sense as the years progress because solar seems to be\nthe way we’re going and seems to be the least expensive of the\nrenewable energy sources, especially as the panels go down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eYou don’t have to be\nreally reliant on the wind. Of course, there are some areas where a\nwindmill might be better than a solar panel, but not many in the\nUnited States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eSo, this is just a brief\nintroduction to the three levels of off the grid living. Most people\njust think, oh, you know, most people don’t know about off the grid\nliving thing: there’s just one type of off the grid living; there\nare various phases of it. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eThere are definitely some\ndisadvantages too to the different types of off the grid and living\nlike, if you’re really roughing it, you can see the disadvantages:\nyou’re going to miss all of your appliances, your electricity, like\nyou’re more or less camping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eAnd there are some\nadvantages to that too; a lot of people want to dump the real world,\nthey want to go completely, completely roughing it off the grid, and\nthey want to live that way for life but most off the grid-ers want\nthe third choice. They want to be completely off the grid, but with\nall the modern amenities; they want the solar, they wanna have\nelectricity, they’ve got running water from the well, they’ve got\na toilet that goes down to the septic system, so it’s much like\nliving on the grid. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eMost of those really nice\noff the grid homes have all the same amenities as an on the grid\nhome, the people living in them tend to be more pioneering definitely\nlike on the grid people and they tend to raise livestock, and plant\ngardens, et cetera, and try to move more and more towards the off the\ngrid living and being totally self-sufficient.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/store.onlinelandsales.com\/collections\/3-levels-of-off-the-grid-living.oembed","provider":"Onlinelandsales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}