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Its always a complete trip to see UPS come banging down the dirt road avoiding potholes to my house. I have a hard time believing we get Amazon deliveries here
by mythrwy 7y ago
Its always a complete trip to see UPS come banging down the dirt road avoiding potholes to my house. I have a hard time believing we get Amazon deliveries here but ya, we do. 2 day and next day etc. is always delayed by a day or 3 but that's fine.
The dryer broke a few weeks ago, I watched some YouTube videos, pulled it out on the porch, ordered some parts from Amazon and fixed it. I've replaced the hot water heater and a bunch of other things like that.
Except for a well, I'm not off grid. Power was already in the area for transmission towers. Internet is over air wireless to a tower. It's usually about 3MB which probably wouldn't do FPS games but it works fine for low quality streaming, Zoom and work. It's a little flaky and sometimes phone tethering is needed. Phone reception was very hit or miss when I first moved here like 7 years ago but it's improved a bunch.
I've thought about getting off grid with Solar and backup generator but so far there hasn't been compelling reason to do so.
It's really just a regular house. No crazy shipping container water catchment solar setup or anything. Just very remote and isolated.