Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
As our society descends into chaos, vast numbers of people are choosing to pull the plug and walk away. Of course it is nearly impossible to completely escape the ubiquitous madness that is seemingly all around us, but many are finding that an “off grid” lifestyle gives them the best opportunity to insulate themselves as much as possible. When you become less dependent on the system, what happens to the system has less of an impact on you. Unfortunately, it appears that our system is heading into a full-blown meltdown, and a significant portion of the population is feverishly making preparations in anticipation of what is coming.
According to Reuters, it has been estimated that there are now approximately 20 million “preppers” in the United States…
Brook Morgan surveyed booths at the “Survival & Prepper Show” in Colorado that were stocked with boxes of ammunition, mounds of trauma medical kits, and every type of knife imaginable.
A self-described “30-year-old lesbian from Indiana,” Morgan is one of a new breed of Americans getting ready to survive political upheaval and natural catastrophes, a pursuit that until recently was largely associated with far-right movements such as white nationalists since the 1980s.
Researchers say the number of preppers has doubled in size to about 20 million since 2017.
There is a subset of that group that has decided that the best way to prepare is to go “off grid”.
It is being reported that “more than 250,000 people in the U.S.” have chosen to adopt such a lifestyle…
As energy costs and home prices continue to rise, more Americans are choosing to live off-grid. According to one estimate, more than 250,000 people in the U.S. have an off-grid lifestyle. While the potential cost savings are certainly attractive, technology and interest in tiny homes, shipping container homes and other energy-efficient housing alternatives are allowing families interested in sustainable lifestyles to move to off-grid living.
If you are thinking of making a similar move, you need to do your research.
Most of us are extremely dependent on the grid, and many find that making a switch to a radically different lifestyle is quite challenging…
Living off the grid means committing to sourcing everything you need to survive and thrive independently: food, shelter, energy and most importantly: water. It’s empowering, until the moment things don’t work. Like when you’re halfway through a delightful hot shower at the end of a January day and the water pump suddenly stops working, sending you into the frozen darkness with a wet headful of shampoo and some tools to address the problem.
For a lot of people, joining a community of others that have adopted an “off grid” lifestyle is very helpful.
For example, about 55 miles south of Salt Lake City hundreds of survivalists are living in a very large community that is completely off the grid…
A community of society-shunning Americans launched a survivalist haven in the Utah desert after finding themselves alienated from the modern world.
Hundreds of people have set themselves up to live off the land under ‘Operation Self-Reliance,’ feeling that getting off-the-grid is the solution to a crumbling culture.
This particular community was originally founded by a 74-year-old man named Philip Gleason, and he is warning that “a variety of apocalyptic scenarios could play out in the coming years”…
Gleason said he fears a variety of apocalyptic scenarios could play out in the coming years, from a power grid failure taking down America’s electricity, to nuclear war and cyber attacks.
‘This is just history repeating itself,’ he cautioned. ‘At the start of any cultural revolution, the people that control their food are the ones that come out on top.’
As Americans consistently share that they are losing faith in the nation’s institutions, those that have made a new life on Riverbed Ranch have essentially set up their own self-surviving nation state.
Of course it probably wasn’t a great idea for them to share what they are doing with such a large audience, because when things do get really bad large numbers of desperate people may start heading that direction.
Most of the time, families that choose to live an “off grid” lifestyle just do it on their own.
Heather Graesser and her husband once owned a large home near Denver, but now they are much happier living an “off grid” lifestyle…
Ten years ago I was living a typical suburban life on the outskirts of Denver. My husband, Casey, and I were both teachers. We lived in a four-bedroom house with a small yard where our two kids liked to play.
Today our life looks radically different. We live entirely off the grid in a 300-square-foot home that we built from straw bales and cob, a natural building material made from soil, water, and other organic matter. We rely on solar power for electricity and rain collection for water, and we use a drop toilet to create “humanure” — compost made from human waste.
We’ve left the conventional world behind. But along the way we’ve created a much more luxurious and free lifestyle than the one we were living in suburbia.
Good for them.
These days, it is becoming increasingly difficult to live a “normal” middle class lifestyle because the cost of housing has become so painful.
In fact, an entirely new category known as “impossibly unaffordable” has been created because home prices have become so expensive in certain cities…
Anyone with half an eye on the housing market over the last two decades will know that in many countries, not least the United States, it’s become much more difficult to buy a home.
But a new report sums up the feeling of many potential home buyers by creating a category that labels some major cities as “impossibly unaffordable.”
The report compared average incomes with average home prices. It found that pandemic-driven demand for homes with outside space, land use policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl, and investors piling into markets had sent prices soaring.
Living “off grid” is often much cheaper than living a conventional lifestyle.
And living “off grid” will also give you a much better chance of shielding yourself from the endless violence that we see all around us.
Recently, I was deeply shocked to read about a 42-year-old man that fired 28 shots at women and children at a family splash pad in Rochester Hills, Michigan…
An eight-year-old boy is fighting for his life after being shot in the head by a rampaging gunman at a family splash pad as seven others were also gunned down.
The violent attack took place in Rochester Hills, Michigan, around 5pm Saturday after the shooter fired 28 rounds from a handgun in a seemingly random attack, peppering women and children at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad outside Detroit.
The gunman fled the scene to a nearby home within half a mile of the splash pad, leading to a tense hours-long standoff that ended when the shooter – described as a 42-year-old white male who lived with his mother – died by suicide.
You would have to be completely and utterly evil to do something like that.
Sadly, our entire society is saturated with evil at this point.
So I can definitely understand why so many people just want to get away from it all.
Things are really bad now, but they are going to get a whole lot worse during the chaotic years that are in front of us.
Ultimately, I think that large numbers of people are going to regret not adopting an “off grid” lifestyle while they still had the opportunity to do so.
Our society is already in the process of collapsing all around us, and those that understand what is happening are getting prepared for what is coming.
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Hundreds of millions will be going off grid soon.
Don’t forget, the grid is their friend until they decide to make it their weapon.
ha ha ha… just call us involuntary survivalists.
I think you meant hundreds of thousands, TN. Survival minded Americans will adapt and overcome. Smart people innovate to survive, at the end of the day you are left with the fittest and most able to carry on .
there is a reason TN left a space between the two sentences.
it’s called reading between the lines.
cheers
I don’t care what despicable 30 year old lesbians do. I don’t apologize.
Pretty sure the roving bands of heavily armed immis are gonna kill a lot of lone wolf survivalists.
Read:
The only person you can count on in a SHTF situation is yourself. Don’t count on authorities like the police or military to keep you safe.
Take what happened in Srebrenica as an example. It was a “UN Safe Haven” with Dutch troops stationed there.
Despite this, it became the site of the worst massacre of the war, and over 8,000 men and boys were rounded up and killed. The day that Srebrenica fell, 25 thousand refugees pleaded for help outside of the UN military base but were left outside to fend for themselves.
Pretty sure you’re a fucking idiot. You know how easy it is to evade a platoon of taco bending shitheels? Very. FYI…that’s WHY they call it ‘survival’. Moron.
And NOBODY gets out of this world alive. Even you.
Yep.
They totally will not be using drones with night vision etc.
Ah yes the clarion call of the Tufted American Moron.
Bullshit. And there’s no way 10% of White America are ‘preppers.’
Well four out of five dentists recommend Crest with Space Age Polymers.
And I stayed in a bedroom at home last night.
3 out of 4 doctors recommend increasing fiber intake. So now I eat dryer lint.
Off grid is not going to help all of those people as much as they actually think.
The only way that scenario will hold for a time is if the entire government structure here in the US gets purposefully eliminated by “foreign enemies”.
If the entire government structure isn’t brought down, good luck holding onto that land when they convert over all property taxation over into only being payable with digital currency. Let me know how that works out at a local and state level.
Then there’s all the EOs that permit the government to simply take over all agriculture, vehicles and land along with food supplies. Oops, most people don’t know about those…
then govt jobs become really dangerous.
As it should be.
However, I truly believe when push comes to shove, there’s very few that will go out on their feet with their boots on instead of on their knees.
Did those government or medical jobs become dangerous after people had their children poisoned by the convid jabs? Many people have had their kids or other family members become extremely sick and/or die from those, and yet they still sit there and do nothing. What do you hear out of them always? “Oh Congress needs to investigate and charge the FDA and CDC with x,y,z.” “The state AGs need to sue Pfizer, Moderna…” “People need to be able to sue the govt for restitution for medical bills, family loss, etc”.
What does it take for people to wake the hell up and finally realize that by constantly continuing to use their existing fraudulent systems and their discretionary rules to try and make things right (voting, courts/lawsuits, demonstrations on government policies), that it will NEVER HAPPEN.
That’s like sitting at a poker game where someone has the cards marked and they already won 3/4 of the money at the table, and someone watching already alerted the players the cards are fraudulent, but the other players sit there and just say “Oh, just only a few more hands, and I just know I’ll win or break even. That guy has to be bluffing one of these times. It’s Drumpf’s turn to deal, I’ll get a great hand this time”.
That bible and religion programming is far too powerful in most people’s minds of what they’ve been preconditioned to tolerate by the control structures. Sure there’s exceptions to the rule out there, but they are few and far between.
We’ll see how many people will be willing to pull a trigger on people they know in their own towns in their own police forces who help the feds because they want to keep their own pensions/paychecks or neighbors you’ve known for years that will be happy to turn you in because they think they’re doing the right thing or want food for their own kids. I guarantee it’ll be very few.
It’s always been very few.
And the best of the very few keep their association hidden.
They’re just hardworking nobodys.
I know a fellow who took the shots and boosters along with his wife. Scurried to the grocery store in the early morning when few people were out. Wore an N15 mask or whatever it’s called. His wife eventually had serious heart problems and what did they do? Went full on with the medical practitioners and their drugs. His view of things is unchanged.
KTA
Second Amendment, use it or s t f u.
Hundreds of people have set themselves up to live off the land under ‘Operation Self-Reliance,’ feeling that getting off-the-grid is the solution to a crumbling culture.
Okay, 2 acre lots within an HOA, shallow wells and no sanitation, “living off the land” in a fucking desert.
Cue Sam Kinison or the men who take you away in those comfy self-hugging jackets.
You didn’t see the picture where they are planting into plastic mulch with a tractor? Totally off-grid! To be fair, I don’t know what the plants are, maybe they’re establishing trees.
It’s touching to see folks desperately rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic . . . especially the 30-y-o lesbo contingent of The Remnant. I Am Legend, meet I Am Lesbgender.
Hundreds, maybe. Thousands, doubtful. Hundreds of thousands? Sounds like bullshit to me. Just because you bought a generator doesn’t mean you’re “off the grid.”
What on this earth would you be prepping for? Long term Survival Depends on Knowledge.
Most off-grid people have no clue where is safe. Just think about the bunch of New Yorkers relocating to Montana, right next to Yellowstone!
Stop panicking.
Food prices are returning to 70s ratios to earnings.
“food”
FOOD.
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It’s a tall order.
C’mon – this guy oughta get a real job. Continual alarm pushing – based on what?
Don’t be alarmed, folks. It’s just Fear Porn Charlie making his 5 O clock milk run as usual.
We live in the woods. Two sites. It’s okay. Takes a lot of work though. Learn to fix things. Share with neighbors. Crime exists out here too, but mostly from bears. You don’t get insomnia, that’s for sure. Hit the pillow and in 30 secs…you’re out. Sometimes I drive into town and get coffee, sit in a parking lot and enjoy the peace and quiet. Waay more life in the woods than in a city.
I’m glad these folks are giving it a go in the desert. I left Denver back in 2021 and moved to a red state where I’m doing all I can to prepare. The first day someone comes to my front door asking for food is the day it gets harder to maintain. “Sorry, I can’t help you” might work the first time. Maybe.
The enemies can bring down our infrastructure anytime, so the real question is when will the yamakahead owned CIA put the plan in place?
Hands down the most experienced and knowledgeable off grid company to walk you through the process: BackwoodsSolar.com
I HOPE THOSE IN UTAH HAVE A VERY GOOD DEFENSE SYSTEM IN PLACE!
The Bible says that there will be no place to hide during the tribulation. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. The wealthiest and highest ranking of them all will cry out for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them. They will seek death and it will elude them.
I like the concept of off grid and less dependence on society and government, especially as we see more and more corruption in both. It’s never good to be forced into the corruption of the majority. And one nuclear weapon properly placed could shut down the entire power grid with a domino effect.
Forget about off grid. Most people can’t even just unplug their TV for 2 weeks without withdrawal symptoms.
Or computers…
Looks to me like hundreds of thousands are giving up homes for tents.
Thanks Mean Joe!