I don’t have the newest one of these, but it’s a good read/catalog chock full of ideas for off the grid living -
real goods solar living sourcebook
My Wife and I live pretty remote. A passive solar house. We do have electricity. And use propane to heat, though the sun helps a lot. I heated with a wood stove for years. But it’s a heck of a lot of work. A real lot.
We have a well and septic. Never had a problem in 30 years.
We got rid of our land line phone because it was so unreliable. I put a cell phone antenna on the roof which works. The switch over was surprisingly easy. We use a satellite dish for TV and internet. No other option there. But works great.
My Wife and I will be moving when we retire though for two reasons. The amount of snow we get will just become unmanageable. As it is, I have a plow truck and a tractor/loader to manage it. And as Snowboarder_Bo says, emergency services will become an issue (well, it always has been). Looking outside right now, there is no way an ambulance could get up our drive way. They could probably get to the bottom of our drive.
I’m going to have to plow today because it’s getting tricky getting up the drive for us. We both have 4 wheel drives.
We are fine with no restaurants and other services nearby. No UPS or FedX delivery. No trash pick up and no mail delivery. As you can imagine, getting a pizza delivered is right out
. These little things are easy for some to get used to, but can be a problem for others.