Depending on where you live, and exactly what you decide to live in, the answer could be yes. In fact, a growing number of city and county zoning agencies around the world are implementing ordinances to crack down on off-grid living, in many cases making it a crime.
Over the years we’ve covered numerous examples of how government officials from around the world have been systematically targeting those who choose to live an off the grid lifestyle.
From targeting self-reliant homeowners with antiquated zoning laws and regulations to forming special zoning boards that are designed to force people back onto the grid, there seems to be a war against self-reliance, and sadly it seems like the government in many cases is winning.
Living off the grid Illegal in many areas of the United States
Throughout the United States, government agencies are forming so-called “nuisance abatement teams” designed to intimidate and force Off Grid homeowners into giving up their land or abandoning their lifestyle. Believe it or not, people are actually being fined and jailed for choosing to live an off-grid existence.
From Costilla County, Colorado trying to ban people from building off-grid homes or camping on their own land to the federal government actually trying to make it illegal to live in a tiny house or off-the-grid RV, there are a growing number of government agencies attempting to regulate this lifestyle out of existence.
While the mainstream media continues to ignore the problem, a couple of independent media organizations and a few reporters have taken notice, and over the years we’ve tried to shine a spotlight on the problem. One of the first cases we covered was the story of how Off Grid enthusiasts in California were being harassed and targeted by their local government officials.null
Off grid Homeowners intimidated into to hooking back into the grid.
There are literally thousands of examples of people who have been harassed, threatened and even fined and jailed for going off the grid. Here are some examples:
The Deserts of Los Angeles County, California
The deserts of Los Angeles County, California used to be a sort of mecca for those looking to live a more self-reliant lifestyle. But just like so many areas of the country, these Off-Grid residents are being targeted, arrested, and intimidated into to hooking back into the grid.
A couple of years back, Reason Magazine took a film crew out to one of these secluded desert towns in California and filmed some of the off-grid residents. From being threatened with jail time if they didn’t hook back into the grid, to actually being thrown in jail because the county didn’t like the look of their homes or land, the people in the deserts of Los Angeles County are being terrorized by their local government.
Instituted in 2006 by Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors’ Nuisance Abatement Teams have been targeting and jailing residents for victimless misdemeanors and code violations.
Code enforcement teams have been hitting unincorporated areas of L.A. County hard, leaving local off-gridders unsure of what the future holds. Residents are scared that they may lose not only their homes but their freedom as well.
The case of Robin Speronis in Cape Coral City, Florida
Robin Speronis tried to go off the grid in Cape Coral City, Florida. She was cited by the city for using rainwater, using solar power, not being connected to an approved water supply, and being in violation of in violation of the International Property Maintenance code. She was eventually thrown in jail and evicted from her home.
Vet who fought for our country, Thrown in Jail for Living ‘Off The Grid’
In November 2016, Tyler Truitt, a veteran, was thrown in jail for violating a city zoning ordinance.
“We live out here off the grid, 100 percent self-sustaining,” Truitt said. “So I basically made all my utilities: I have my solar panels, I have my rainwater collection and stuff. ” took an oath that I would support and defend the constitution and the freedoms that entails, and I really feel like those are being trampled upon.”
Is it really your land? According to most zoning officials, you need to follow their rules!
On top of using size restrictions to limit what off-grid home owners can live in, towns throughout the U.S. are also targeting mobile homes. In many areas, houses are required to built on a foundation and hooked up to public utilities.
Unfortunately, that piece of freedom that you bought might not be so free. If your land is not zoned for recreational vehicle living, off grid living, or camping you may be in for some serious trouble.
It’s a sad day when living off your own land becomes a crime. Please spread the word because cases like this are increasing at an alarming rate.
I would love to get every poster to this thread to commit to banding together to pioneer a Resistance Survivalist Town somewhere where we choose to live in defiance of local, state, and federal edicts together, barter for everything, supply own needs for survival, live off-grid, and take care of our own. I know there are many people who want the govt off their backs and have lamented the downfall of independent living but few ever do anything about it, or they settle for what they can do for their own family. Why not be the spark to start the movement to take the country back? Do it well, and others will follow and as the old adage goes…there is strength in numbers.
When are the “PEOPLE” of this country going to wake up? We are sitting on our hands and letting the government “DICTATE” to us, every move we make! This is not a dictatorship, YET, but if we don”t do something instead of talking and complaining about it, it won”t be long before it will be!
Let’s start it not any more talk
I am about to be evicted from a house I lived in for 21 yrs.My parents had it built and they are selling it asap. They don’t give a crap about me.SSD is planning on giving me 600 a month to live. Whee. Live in my car is about all I can do with that. But no they will need an address. LOL I have wanted to live in a cabin in the woods for 30 yrs now.I raised 2 great kids and am now on my own about to be homeless. My stuff is packed and there is no where to go. I was always against government and bs society. Now I have to find out where the hell I am supposed to live. I don’t and never have gave a crap about technology and phones and all that crap. I just want to wake up in a cabin,go out cut firewood,shoot my dinner,and live. I LOVE building firepits and handy things. I have to find a spot NOW.Like right NOW.
I live off grid no power no water no gas. It impossible to be self sufficient without money at the beginning. You need solar panels and batteries enough to run your functions of life. You still need some form of currency to get you go just not as much as common society. I make gift baskets live comfortably for about 300 month I grow some vegetables and because of the weather I have propane on hand mostly use wood stove. I also have Internet wi fi and that is st I’ll a bill that cost money. So until there are some major changes in the economics of the world were still going to be looking at dollar bill for survival. Just try to take some gold to the store for groceries. B.t.w our community has a bartering system for homemade items fruits vegetables soap e.t.c.
What aspects of off grid living are illegal in Madison County, TN? Is off grid living illegal in Mexico? How can we fight the government? If people want to go off grid, there shouldn’t be any laws against it. The government has NO right to do that!
The gov.wants your tax money,the utilty companys want your money,they give the gov.big,big donations to make laws to keep you paying.we all know that!freedom whats that?communism,,,,yep.need to put a stop to it,i think im voting for trump!
Just wish I could walk off into the woods somewhere and live using only my survival witts ! Society’s gotton out of control and they keep pushing you into the ground!
Hello everyone…where can i buy cheap good land with water? I HATE California and want to move out of here asap. thx
Question: Ever wonder why digital electric meters are still big and clunky when every thing else has miniaturized?
Answer: So Big Brother can accommodate solid-state wall-penetrating radar on the homes of persons of interest–The better to see you with my dear.
Does anyone really want to live off the grid unless they’re fed up with mankind? The solution is high-paying jobs, affordable health insurance, and enough disposable income left over to have a sex life.
No More A Land Of The Free. No distinctions between right and wrong anymore. The abatement teams should go to jail for violating these people’s rights. Notice how they wouldn’t even answer a simple question at the town meeting, this alone proves they just don’t want to admit their lack of values and respect of humanity, and what used to be the American way. Highly upsetting to me. I often dream we the people create such a revolution to end this type of political disregard, and actually win! Yeah, in my dreams.
This is not only happening in the Peoples Republik of California, but also in Virginia and probably other states. In Michigan it is illegal to grow a vegetable garden in your front yard yet Sharia law has been passed in one community.
Here:
http://guardianlv.com/2014/05/personal-gardening-and-farming-are-becoming-illegal/
And here:
http://nationalreport.net/city-michigan-first-fully-implement-sharia-law/
It is pure manipulation and fear tactics, they expect you to be compliant of all laws and regulation, but they can lie and break any law they want to get the job done. It really all comes down to control, the Gov clearly wants us to be dependent on them and not self reliant.
washh up
I beleive that anyone who wants , should be allowed to live off grid. The energy corporations should not be allowed to force anyone , including political figures in any state , to force people to hookup and/or use utilities. I see nothing wronge with living off grid.
Someone needs to get all the “off the grid” community together along with freedom rallies to go in front of the Supreme Court and let them know WE THE PEOPLE who are suppose to be a free nation are being treated like we live in a communist dictatorship. We need to also subpoena town and state records to find out how much $$ they are getting in kickbacks to keep people on the grid. Until America steps up (together) it will happen to all of us.
Also why aren’t the Amish and other OFF Grid Communities being targeted, or are they next?
Leave these people alone, we should be rallying and showing the world what the animals in government attack simple people. Instead we only see spoiled rich kids complaining about privilege.. It’s disgusting
All off griders should be force at gun point to plug back into the grid; off gridding rejects the truth of the governing alien presence.
our homeworld at the pinnacle of civilization visited earth to extract many numbers of you to bring to our world to teach the ways of galactic science and advanced civilization. Unfortunately, our civilization collapsed because of our curiosity with your species which we now call the garbage pit of the outer rim and under perpetual quarantine. Many of us now rule your planet.
Off grid. No gummint. Take back our land…
All via COMPUTER, and no one sees the discrepancies?
Weird.
GOV is to protect you…. what a joke, do you know why America started with (13) colony, or why is there 13 step on the dollar bill or the star on the Christmass tree? gov and money has always been used by external dimensional purposes to connect the chest pieces in other parallel world. number is used as coordinate for time and space.This world is not the real world, it is only a fallen world, it is flawed that is why you die, age, sick and experience all kind of bs. your body is only a biological computer for for soul to be downloaded into, this hell that you all live and seen is so that you may understand the lesson so when you die, father(the real self, the real you, not you as a fragment right now)will sent you to a different experience, human’s free will and the choices they make is both calculated and experienced by God.
Light and Darkness seem like two force of the same coin>
Light>Darkness
well what does Darkness> well now you know why you’re here…