If you already own the land and a well and a septic Tank is already installed then it is likely feasible to live off the grid. Many counties also allow you to put an Airstream or other trailer on the land while you build your more permanent residence also.
So, whether you have solar arrays (portable ones used on campers and trailers) or not it is still feasible to live off the grid as long as you have a good water source and a septic Tank and follow the rules of the county your land is in.
When I bought land and built an A-Frame because at that time we got 7 feet of snow at 4000 feet where my land was in 1980 I had a running spring there too. Even though I wasn't sure about drinking this water from a stream I still boiled it for various uses sometimes like we did in India while traveling there. we bought a portable kerosene Stove to boil water before drinking it for 5 minutes while in India from December 1985 until April of 1986. But, mostly used it in Dharmshala because Traveling with it wouldn't have been useful because we were traveling by bus and train then until we flew home from Kathmandu, Nepal in April of 1986.
MY father welded me up a wood stove that he made from a water pressure tank from before when he had piped in water to his land in Yucca Valley that he planned to retire on and did in 1980. we started building his retirement home on weekends starting in 1968 and finished it by 1980 when he retired (just working on weekends building it.
So, after I had the wood stove my father welded up and gave to me that worked really good even down to almost zero degrees at night sometimes that high up on the mountain we started buying things like Aladdin Kerosene lamps. They are a little Stinky but if you don't have solar power they are very bright for reading at night. We also used an antique wood cooking stove and made bread and cakes and casaroles too then for my then wife and kids growing up from 1980 to 1985.
So, yes, it is feasible to live off the grid, especially if you already own property and have a good water source and a septic tank already installed.
The A-Frame shape of the house we built would shed any amount of snow up to around 10 feet or more without collapsing the roof which was good if we weren't there when that much snow fell at one time. It held up nicely until we sold the land and A-Frame in 1989 when we moved to Hawaii to Maui then.
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We were able to do this in 1980 by buying land for 8000 dollars and selling a vehicle and buying building materials with the money from the vehicle we sold and building it ourselves. My father and wife and friends all helped us build our A-Frame then because my father retired in 1980 so he could help us.
So, if you don't have to pay rent then you these days (with 5 people like we were there with 3 kids) we saved then around 60,000 dollars in rent which would translate to 150,000 dollars in rent during the 5 years we lived there. (I'm using 2500 as a base because you cannot rent anything decent these days for 5 people under 2500 a month (especially along the California coast where I have lived mostly since 1995.
also I bought then in 1980 an antique Clawfoot bathtub (the biggest one they used to make) for the A-Frame too. So, we had the wood stove my father welded up and then the Antique wood Cook stove for making casseroles and cakes and pies and such and you could also cook on top of it too anything you wanted to also. And then the Aladdin Lamps that are kerosene lamps and candle lanterns and sometimes just candles to read late at night. also, they make candle lanterns with a metal reflector like a mirror which amplifies the light for reading too.
So, living off the grid is feasible. However, remember if you are driving to work somewhere you still need to be able to drive to and from work in ANY weather. So, this is something to consider too.
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