Interesting "Off the Grid Article" for Australia:

pnichols wrote:
LS,

My comments above earlier were kindof in relation to living off the grid in an RV, since this is an RV forum.

Oh, OK, but you started the post I was responding to with, "Camping/living off-grid," so I touched on the "living" aspect although, if you think about it, we live in a scaled up RV.

And, in an RV, all of the above still applies except you have to take the RV to the dump and refill the water and propane.

We didn't set out to live off-grid, it's just that our land is not served by a power company. Well, it is, but it would have cost us about $10,000 a pole (or $10,000 a mile, I don't remember which) and we live 8 miles from the nearest pole. Plus they wanted a $250,000 deposit. And then, we could pay them a monthly bill. It was a lot cheaper to put in a $45,500 solar system that came with some tax incentives.

Individuals will have different, specific, health concerns and those need to be taken into account but, for the most part, help is more easily summoned, and faster arriving, than in the past. And we do have a heliport. ;) It's our front yard. One thing that someone with serious health problems should probably have is a Personal Locator Beacon or SPOT (to send messages) in case they are out of cell service range when something bad happens.

Oh, we have our traffic problems too. Just this afternoon I was driving to our mailbox and got stuck behind a grandma Road Runner (Road Walker, really). :D

LS