Thanks for the video yukon, Thats my dream to by 32 to be able to buy my land and by 35 to be able to get building on the home.
There's still cheap land in california, you just gotta know where to look. Me and my fam visited a 60 acre property just recently that's going for 100,000 bucks. Once I acquire something like that I'ma build my own house on it. You can live on your own, secluded, without having to deal with subzero temperatures and probable starvation haha.
Gotta tip my hat to people who can handle it in the AK bush tho.
Every place nice has been developed and sold off to the rich or destroyed. The future is entropy. Tennessee is nice though.
Hey man, ive been gauging this for some time as well, and the poster above is correct, that all the land is vouched for, but the yellowstone natl park and other heavy terrain places in the n USA and canada, are so dense that you probably could disappear so far deep that they wouldent be able to find you....
and if your truley living off the grid then the internet isnt really an option, maybe a few handheld radios but no power outlets out there..
are you my long lost twin brother???? Its almost as if I wrote that myself. Bro, I am looking fro the same thing, it isnt easy. Start learning the little survival techniques now, how to grow veggies, composting, getting fresh water, carpentry, minor electrical troubleshooting, medical issues and when to get attention, natural cures, home remedies, wild edibles including flowers and fungus, how to skin and cut your own meat, use of weapons..
those are just a few things you want to get started on if your wanting to be OTG in 10 years....I too want the same thing....I have been studying wind and solar power and how to get it and store it....little things like that will be the difference in you surviving when a snow storm hits, or a global catastrophe....start saving money....a generator is a must even if you have solar and wind power.....I will start saving links to everywhere I read and start posting them on this site for you. Good luck in your efforts bro, maybe we will meet out in the mountains sometime for a smoke and see if my dad knows your mom or vise versa cause I think we are related....LOL...
Just buy yourself some remote acreage and wait for the inflatable solar powered insta-houses to get invented. If you can't afford land...well...then you're fucked. Those solar powered instahouses aren't going to be cheap either...
you just need to buy or rent some property in the bush with hardly any neighbors, work from there and become sustainable. Don't give up on living with technology its very useful and even the hermits who live off the grid get computers and internet these days. Check out Earthships for sustainable housing.
have you seen the documentary about 'Richard Proenneke'..its called 'alone in the wilderness'
he moved to the alaska bush when he was like 51 and lived there alone for 30 sum years...heres a preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss
There's a tax for even asking that question. This is America. How dare you?
you should also watch Les Strouds show called 'off the grid'
u can watch the whole thing on youtube in several segments...its a documentary about him buying bush property and him and the family making the move from the city to live there...really cool show...and les will give u lots to think about, and get u really excited to say fuck it.
heres the first part...u can jump to part 2, 3, 4....from the sidebar once there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg7EaLIJrBw
.......is for quitters
Laptops can be run by small portable solar panels made just for laptops....so you can still have your computer! Satellite phone can prolly be powered same way.......
Phone + Laptop + Solar power = Internet.
I dont think it is just living on your on land and living off it.....at least for me its not....I dont want a 60 acre spot where I am 30 minutes from 100,000 people thriving in a big city.....I want to live somewhere, even if 1 acre, where the closest person is a plane ride, or a good hours long ATV ride to get to me. I want to make 1 trip to the store maybe once a month. at least thats my plan...not speaking fro anyone.
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There's a tax for even asking that question. This is America. How dare you?
An insta-house sounds very convenient though.
Hawaii....cheap...for...land? Ah...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow, do I want what you are smoking, or maybe just your bank account. Not only is it some of the most expensive real estate on the planet, the property taxes are insane.
I love Hawaii, but this is not a sustainable concept. Hawaii has building codes that will prohibit you from just doing what you want. Get caught growing weed there and they take your land.
I bought a travel trailer last summer and am really enjoying it. It wouldn't take too much to be self sufficient in a trailer. All you need is a free place to park, solar or wind power to charge some batteries. Loading water and dumping holding tanks is not a big deal.
There's lot's of people living a low cost mobile lifestyle in a Travel Trailer or RV on retirement income. The more sustainable you make the trailer, the lower the cost of living in it. I found a RV forum where there are people that boondock for several weeks then spend one night in a campground to dump tanks, do laundry etc..
I'm thinking of looking for a nice piece of property to put the trailer on and work on a sustainablility plan from there. All I'd need is a wind turbine, a well and a septic bed.