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"live off the grid" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who lives independently of public utilities, typically with minimal or no reliance on electricity, gas, or water services. For example, "After years of city living, Amber and her family decided to move to a rural location and live off the grid."
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Off the grid.
Someone who is off the grid lives outside society and chooses not to follow its rules and conventions.
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In the article "Learning to Can Meats and Charm Wary Sheep," Liz Leyden writes: Whether driven by economic or environmental concerns, interest in sustainable living — canning food, using solar power to live off the grid, gathering honey from a backyard beehive — is booming.
To live off the grid, as perhaps 2,000 or so people do in a woodsy swath of northern Idaho and western Montana, does not mean that these residents are completely unconnected to what is going on.
Peggy Braunstein, who came to Sandpoint from New York 27 years ago, told me that for her and her neighbors, many of whom live off the grid, life without oil "isn't so overwhelming or shocking.
It would be absurd to expect people to suddenly opt out of all the apps that mediate modern life and go live off the grid because of Pokémon Go, but perhaps this can have the effect of making people a little less complacent about stuff we take for granted everyday, and a bit more careful.
A determined individualist, in her view, should be resourceful enough to live off the grid.
Some of us hate the spotlight and long to live off the grid.
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Does living off-the-grid entice you?
An entire life voluntarily lived off the grid?
In the extraordinary independent film "Winter's Bone," the large Dolly clan lives off the grid.
She seems to have found a soul mate, though, in Phillip, a crunchy-granola activist who lives off the grid.
She lives off the grid with her parents and brother, near the high-altitude ghost town of Garnet, once a thriving mining town.
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