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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Off grid in Australia is a joke.

  You’re still located within a council who have bullshit laws and won’t even allow you live in a tiny home on your land because it’s not up to code that only allows for McMansions.

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• ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes I know, I’ve looked at them. That’s how I know they are expensive.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But you never have to pay for utilities, rent, taxes for schools or roads or services … obviously it wouldn’t be completely free.

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    • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ok, but if your plan is to live solo forever and not interact with society, you’d basically need to pay for it upfront. That means you need a lot of money all at once, otherwise you’ll still need income, which limits the ability you have to be separate from society.

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      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes, that would need to be the plan. One upfront payment then never paying for utilities or other things forever. That’s the only way this works.

        I think this is madness, but that’s how you do this.

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s almost as if we all rely on each other to exist. If only there was a word for that.

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• papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People aren’t down voting because they don’t think the properties exist, they’re down voting because your argument doesn’t really make sense. People that are saying, “I’d rather just live in the wilderness” are not the ones that can afford to just purchase land. You almost will certainly have to pay taxes on the land as well.

  Saying you can not participate in society by participating in society very hard so you can afford to participate a little less and a little further from society isn’t what these people are looking for, they want to hop in a truck with some tools, drive into the woods, never to be seen again. Without a million dollar piece of paper saying they’re allowed to.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well yeah, I get that. But there are plots for really cheap, but they don’t have any kind of access to water, sewage, or whatever. Plots for like 10,000 or less. That sounds like a lot, I suppose, but it isn’t. I think it’s more that people don’t understand how money works,

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