My girlfriend and I decided that we wanted to live off the grid.
- This sort of lifestyle is becoming more and more popular especially with people in their mid-to-late twenties.
I think for many of us we view the world a bit differently and want to escape the stress and anxiety that comes along with modern-day life. We are willing to sacrifice some of the comforts of home in order to accomplish this task. At any rate, we started looking into purchasing one of those tiny homes that could be moved from place to place so that we could explore some of the vast wilderness around us. We learned rather quickly that we had to make some serious changes to the way we did things in order to live as we wanted to. In many cases, there would not be any electricity or running water, so a conventional heating or cooling unit would not work and we wanted to be comfortable even during extreme temperature changes. We did our research and found that there were many alternative forms of heat that we could use that ran off of solar power. There were also very compact and highly efficient wood stoves that could be installed without taking up too much room. Both of these heat sources utilized green and renewable energy sources and that made us very happy as well. Being able to escape the high-tech and sometimes stressful world around us was what was most important. If it meant being more creative about ways to enjoy the comforts that we were used to, that was okay too.
