A family living remotely in Alaska.

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Hippies in the backwoods!

I know a lot of folks that live in Alaska, off grid part or full time.

Land in Alaska is not free. Homesteading ended back in the middle part of the last century. It is actually more expensive than in the civilized parts of the world and about the same as farm land in GB. There is a huge problem with squatters and the state of Alaska has rangers appointed to burn down any illegal shacks/cabins they find. they do not have to go through eviction process or fight in court for months, squatting on public land is not tolerated. Squatting on private land is downright dangerous.

Alaska also has very strict hunting and fishing laws which restricts taking game to short and intense periods of time. It is possible to kill enough meat to last a year, but you do not hunt year around. Most of your game is taken in a span from mid August to the end of Sept.

Even up there one must have some form of income, those canned goods are not free, neither are the chain saws or the gas they use and that kind of money is not to be made on a trapping line in this day and age. Most Alaskans work a town job to fund their off grid entertainment. Some write books, sell their stories to others or get featured on reality TV. That seems to be the biggest income source for the past decade.

As for the supposed isolation, It works great until you break the odd leg and help is two days snowmobile ride and a plane trip away.