Quote Originally Posted by microcarl View Post
Hot showers, machine washing clothes, big-screen TVs and continuously available Internet, the loss of all these things will be an adjustment that the majority of us will have long struggles with. Withdrawal from modern convieniences will be devistating to those who have made these things the main-stay of their everyday lives.
As I age, I don't like being without hot showers. I'm working on alternatives.

I understand that I'll need to make do with a lot less, but I know something about solar and wind power, and I scrounge materials and fabricate systems fairly well when it's necessary.

I can't think of a good reason that I have to live like a 3rd worlder, unless they dump me in a desert with zero tools and no metal to scrounge.

As long as I don't have to go head-to-head with code enforcement busy bodies, all will be well.

And back to the OP I would not like to be living in a hut with no power in the winter and have my back go out. There's a reason a number of seniors moved to warmer climates (and still do).

Chi, you're getting married and moving to FL . . . (congrats, again).