The seclusion and privacy was great for a honeymoon couple, but not a long term thing at all
On our honeymoon I took my husband to a remote area. I found a house on Vrbo that was totally off grid. You could see the ocean from the window, had plenty of property and was totally private. My husband and I had to get gas in town and stock up on food. There was literally nothing near the house. Everything was very environmentally friendly. The people composted, the water was a well system and the heating system was powered by generators. There also was a wood stove that you literally burned wood for heat. My husband and I thought we could make due with that type of heating system. There was a whole stack of wood available to us to burn. When the woodstove was loaded up and running, it was plenty warm. I loved reading and drinking hot chocolate by the woodstove. It was the perfect heating system. The work my husband did wasn’t worth it. He was constantly loading more wood and poking the fire. We knew at night the stove would burn out and we would be without heating. We were very thankful for the generator powered heating system. We ran that the whole time we slept at night and sometimes on especially cold mornings. I don’t know how people could live off grid full time like this. The seclusion and privacy was great for a honeymoon couple, but not a long term thing at all. I get tired of chopping wood and rationing heat, water and food constantly. I also would like to be near a grocery store.