My Wife and I share bathrooms, but not office space. No way. We do need our space. We already work with each others respective offices/departments. That is handled quite fine with email.
It’s cool that while we KNOW what each other does, neither of us could do the others job. When at home I or she may say “OK, work question” and so we switch gears.
Of course we share things at the end of the day. It’s hard no too in our situation. But it’s generally watercooler type stuff. We limit our work talk pretty well.
My Wife worked from home for a couple of weeks during the beginning of COVID. Nice set up. I had my space, she had her own.
Now that I see how great it is to NOT work face to face with coworkers, Uh, uh. No way.
My Wife and I spend plenty of time together, but we need work separation, which is difficult as it is.
Don’t know if the OP follows subreddit linked below, but their experiences building off grid homes might be useful. I occasionally wander in there just out of curiosity.
Would have replied sooner but I’m recovering from major surgery and an AC failure during a heat wave and just got home today. Thank you for the reading material for my multi-week leave from work while I recover.
What the hell - thought I’d check in on this thread.
We’re still investigating this idea, but everything’s on hold for the current year due to major health concerns for two of us. The good news is that these are probably the “fix it and it stays fixed” sort of problems, and follow up for one of us would be quite doable at that location going forward. We know this because we know of two other people on the island with the same issue who have no problem having their follow up attended to while living there. Basically, life happened and we’re taking care of it this summer rather than camping or moving forward on a multi-year project that is not on a deadline at this time.
Next task is doing a building survey of the land to make sure property boundaries are marked and to determine where we can build on the 40 acres, including where a septic field can be sited. Or, if there’s no area with sufficient topsoil, how to fix that. (We have the names of contractors who can address that problem) The original plan was to do that and do our usual camping trip but as I said, something came up. So that is deferred until next year.
Even if, in the end, we decide to sell and retire elsewhere a new survey and boundary markings would need to be done so we’d probably have to do this sooner or later anyhow. No, we aren’t 100% committed at this point, but it is our preferred option if we can make it work.
Two of us are planning to retire a couple years earlier than originally planned. We weren’t intending to actually get the build done until at least one of us could be on site so that potentially brings that a bit more forward.
We were informed by builders up there that there could be a wait as long as 18 months to start construction, but given we’re still a minimum of 2-3 years out that’s not the end of the world. It’s still good to know, however.
The grid has been extended a bit more over the past two years. If it keeps growing at this rate then hooking up to the grid will become our better option (with appropriate backups, of course).
So… thanks again to everyone who contributed. Not sure how much I’ll be updating this in the future, but if/when we make the commitment to build and put the money down I expect I’ll update it.
My Wife and I are moving to a new house out of the mountains. We are becoming suburbanites (but 1/3 acre). We are getting a PV system that should take care of all of our electrical needs. Including electric vehicles (which we don’t have yet) and a hot tub at the new house (the hot tub is a meh… perhaps fun in the winter, but I doubt it).
But hey, other wise it’s perfect. Seriously perfect for us.
We are far, far from being off grid. But we did do the Solar. Colorado blue skies are perfect for it.