Originally Posted By: belMarduk
Originally Posted By: Jackie
Penny! Good to see you, friend!

My longtime involovement with legal authorities in various forms, plus my even longer-time love of mystery books (and probably action movies, as well), makes my first thought (since as theFF said, no context was given) was people who deliberately make themselves untrackable by any governmental agency: work and pay for everything in cash, never use a credit card or their social security number.



This is the only definition of "living off the grid" that I was aware of.

Why would you want to live without electricity?


not necessarily without electricity, Bel, just not buying it from some big utilities company. having a wind generator or solar panels, etc.

btw, I just want to re-iterate, I have never heard it used any other way than in a utilities/electrical sense, so this other usage of hiding from the government is interesting.

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