Off grid living in remote places

[Fatrat]

I do have a friend who is happy long term with his solar, but he had it mounted on racks in his yard. I just don't want it on the roof

 

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"Bugman" - Lives On A Boat On A Deserted Island​

May 31, 2026 #documentary #boat
If you want to know what it's like living off-grid in an extreme environment - there's a man who lives on a boat on a deserted island off the Florida coast. His name is "Bugman" and he not only runs an old low power radio station on the island, he has dreams of starting his own television show and one day sailing off into the sunset - so we did a documentary on his story.


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[searcher]

Jun 6, 2026
I’m sharing my journey toward a simpler, alternative lifestyle in my tiny cabin in the forest. Inspired by Stoicism, I realize how vital it is to let go of control over material things and to find peace in the present moment on my journey of self discovery. If you dream of self-sufficiency, minimalism, and living in harmony with nature, join me and get inspired by Stoic wisdom.

I Had To Let Go

 

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Solo on river shantyboat: quits city to live free at edge of society​

Jun 14, 2026
Seven years ago, Martin Haseman set out to find a way to live for free in America. He tried RV life, vanlife, a sailboat — but even on BLM land, finding a free long-term parking spot is harder than it sounds. The water turned out to be the loophole.
On the Tennessee River and its tributaries, there are thousands of miles where you can anchor for free. The only rule: move every 14 days, though just by a mile. Martin has been working that system for five years. His expenses: food, propane, gas, a cell phone bill — and $100/month for a TVA marina pass, which gets him access to public marinas across the entire watershed for shopping runs, overnight stays, and showers.
Beyond the low cost, the river solves something most off-grid setups struggle with: water access. Martin has a pump, hose, and propane hot water heater rigged for showers and dishes. The TVA supplies drinking water for the region, so quality is already high straight from the source.
And because the surrounding land is all public property, no one can build within a quarter mile of the shore in any direction. Martin lives, effectively, on a nature preserve — forest and riverbank as far as he can see. That natural richness, he says, is what he didn't expect to find, and what he's learned to value most.
Parked on a small lagoon off the Duck River, we talk about what this life actually costs, the history of shantyboat culture in America, and what it means to opt out of the economy one anchor drop at a time.
— Check Martin's Channel, Another Time, Another Place: / @atap...anothertime

Solo on river shantyboat: quits city to live free at edge of society

 

[searcher]

Rural Life in England Living Off Grid on a Narrowboat​

Jun 22, 2026 ENGLAND
Jen left behind a conventional home to embrace a different way of life—living off-grid on a narrowboat and travelling through the quiet waterways of rural England.
But for Jen, life on the canal isn't the destination. It's only one chapter in a much bigger journey.

Rural Life in England Living Off Grid on a Narrowboat​

 

[searcher]

Aug 2, 2026
After years of living with less in my tiny cabin I have learned how to find happiness in the small things around me. In this video, I talk about how I find a sense of joy and satisfaction in the everyday activities of building and running my homestead on my journey to live a more sustainable and self-sufficient life in the forest. These are activities such as learning practical skills, building my house and tiny homestead, having a fewer things in the house, growing colourful food in the garden and going on "staycations" in the area where I live. These are ways of appreciating what life has to offer, when you live on a budget.

Why Living With Less Made Me Happier

 

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We Bought an Off Grid Cabin in the Rocky Mountains | Our New 10-Acre Homestead

 

[Casey Jones]

Yeah. Another puff piece for Colorado to rehabilitate its image.

The Ghey Mafia that took over that state, is now in panic - people are LEAVING, more than arriving, and real-estate prices are plummeting.

What I'm sure isn't discussed there, is how land-use regulations, and insane firearms regulations, and, probably, open-burning regulations (no fireplace or wood stove!) inconvenience homesteaders - to the point where it's not doable.

Take, for example, the most basic Fire. HEAT. No, those ghey "solar panels" aren't going to be enough to power some magic Chinese electric furnace - not on most days. Even if it comes close, it's still a technological complexity, and a backup source of heat is essential.

Then...firearms regulations. Colorado went from Second-Amendment-supporting to Urban-Blue restrictive, in the space of 15 years. You're not allowed even magazines with more than, IIRC, five shells. Sure, you gonna stand off a hunger-maddened cougar or bear with your Glock and five shots in each of your two pitiful magazines? Or do what every firearm owner does, ignore the law, save your life, and have some lesbian Conservation Officer investigate and arrest you because your magazines were non-compliant, hence you used illegal equipment to destroy wildlife?

Not even to mention, TAXES. How you gonna pay the government tribute, that it demands as a condition of your just living there?

If you go to live like this, in the vid, you do it to be AWAY from officialdom and fools and the madness of government.

But in modern Colorado, it reaches out to YOU.

 

[searcher]

Veteran saw collapse abroad. Now builds antifragile family homestead

Aug 10, 2026
For the past 20 years, Josh and Chiara Morris have built a 360-acre homestead in the Missouri Ozarks that today provides their family with all its own food, water, shelter, and energy, and even its income. It's a fully engineered system for self-reliance, first inspired by Josh's years as an Army Ranger.
Deployed overseas, Josh saw firsthand what happens when the systems people take for granted (food, water, security, order) simply stop working. That experience shaped what he came home and built: not a retreat, but a home and a piece of land that could carry his family through anything.
The first thing he built was the house itself: an underground home with a double-walled, double-waterproofed shell he engineered to withstand floods, tornadoes, and just about anything else.

Passive solar design keeps it warm without much help, and a wood stove plumbed into the water system heats both the home and their water at once. It's already taken a direct tornado hit and come through without a scratch.

Around the house: orchards, gardens, a fish-stocked pond, cattle, and goats their daughters raise, show, and sell. Enough that the girls have paid for their own cars out of the profits. Nothing on this property is decorative. Every system does double duty as food, water, energy, or income.

We spent an afternoon walking the land with Josh and Chiara (through the paddocks, the orchard, and the underground rooms of the house itself), talking about what "self-sufficient" actually looks like when you build it out of engineering discipline instead of survivalist fantasy, and what it costs a family in time, money, and freedom to get there.


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Josh's book, "Thrive in the Coming Dark Age": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHDPNZXD