Going off grid tends to mean things like basic hygiene is more of a chore. Outhouses instead of toilets in a lot of regions. Burning your feces on a schedule, because there's no direct line to sewers.

Living off the grid can be freeing, but it's not comfortable in a lot of ways. For some reason people think that living off the grid means still having electricity from their local power plants or clean running water, but that's just not the case.

To be truly off the grid means rejection of a lot of modern technologies.