oh yes, for awhile now, I am not as self reliant and never have been,regarding construction and wiring or plumbing, but I have common sense. Tools and carpentry are not anything I am good at, I store food, mine and purchased, buy bulk everything, and then buy some more, have a storage of first aid and medical aides, herbs, liquor for tincture or barter, 5 acres with enough wood for fuel for at least 2 winters, (hardwood), with enough young growth to be usable I am of the mindset of 50% disaster ready and 50% living self reliantly for 40 years (mindset).. I work, though I cannot like I used to, in a field that will always be needed, my son and his gf live with me, young strong people, they also are trained as caregivers, child care, some carpentry skills but I would not let him build a house, we live in a nice wide big windowed with live in basement that is prefab, 20 years old and needs touchups. Heat with wood and electric, but wood will do for heat and cooking. Solar would not be that great, its gloomy New England, but for 5 months out of the year there is no need for refrigeration, and 2 months of that for freezing. We live near running water that comes from a top of a mountain that only has wild animals living on it, clean of chemicals etc, usually more than adequete water natural water, I have a very deep artesian well and am saving for a genny that I can afford to run it , maybe just once a week and save the water Sparsely populated area, good relations with all neighbors, civil and cold with the ones adjacent though he did something weird last week, I was walking the dogs, one leashed and the Springer not, guy was cleaning off his car, the pup bounded across his property, stopped and sniffed, wagged and kept bouncing and running along, on the way back the dude had dumped one of those paper food containers for wings to go, just dumped all the bones right by his mailbox. Damn fool Springer of course snagged it up and would not come when called because he is an asshole like that. Anyway, I thought it was a hostile gesture.