Off grid living without internet?

Clearly we all have internet - now. I am thinking it would be advantageous to be so far "off the grid" that internet is not available. But the "grass looks greener" on the other side so often. Wondering what it was really like for those who did without internet due to off grid logistics.
This is why life sans internet looks attractive:
1) It is Big Bothers #1 surveillance weapon by a huge margin.
2) It grows ruder and dumber with each passing year. Remarkable considering how rude it was 20 years ago. The level of modern idiocy is often mind numbing. Don't try to tell me the kids are as sharp as they used to be.
3) It grows more dominated by Big Bother with each passing year. As their funding and numbers grow - so does their arrogance.
4) I don't want to be in the cross hairs if or when Versailles burns yet again.
But life without a land line phone would be a challenge. I suspect a land line would be quite expensive if carried for many miles. Especially considering they usually piggy back on power lines.
Surely we have posters who did without internet in the past ~15 years? Hopefully due to off grid living circumstance.
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I want to lose the cell phone more than anything. Still need a phone, this may approximate mission impossible.
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I now split the bill with my neighbor and use her wifi from DSL.
I said mostly, as I did have an early Kindle which has a very slow international accepted browser. Always has be listed as 'experimental' but was still functioning 18 months ago or so...
It's not very WWW friendly. I did post once or twice here from it. Mostly no graphics. Gmail was best in basic mode (is that still a thing?) BUT IT WAS GREAT TO HAVE, when we had a 19" snow and I was cabin bound for about 4 days. I was able to let people know I was safe and doing fine.
This and burner phones might allow you to have some connection without a pinpoint location and knowledge of your ID. While they might be able to locate your phone weather it's on or not, they still need to identify it with you, so buy it blind, A TracFone with minutes from Walmart and pay cash...
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I put a 100$ booster in the house and I can get 3/4 bars some days , some days it’s not so good .
It’s 2 1/2 hr round trip to any real shopping .
I’m pushing 60 now the internet is not going to change my way of thinking .
I have 9 phone and it’s $$$$$$ , the cost is crazy , I have a friend in Turkey that pays 10$ American for unlimited service ?
In ny the phone Company won’t run a phone line with out power .
On Mountain tops .
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My Wife even spends the better part of the Summer there, while I commute occasionally and Weekend with her. A 12 mile Boat Trip, and 6 mile drive.
But when we met, my Wife's Parents House, had Electricity, but no Land Phone/Running Water/Indoor Plumbing/TV/Wood Heat, so she is use to that way of living.
The reaction to C-19 is likely to affect the economy at some point. Hopefully after the election rather than before it. Timing is tough though - or we would all be rich.
Funny that after I was away from the internet for awhile it didn't seem so bad. If I had to make a realistic prediction I would have to predict that my efforts to really get away from it all will not succeed.
I have had a hard time grasping how much the economics model has changed. I was the kid who didn't study and got one of 7-10 'A's in a lecture hall, I just understood it. I couldn't understand what was keeping inflation down when the FED was pumping money into the economy after the recession. Now I couldn't understand the stock market sustaining it's levels. I feel I have at least a tiny grasp on what is going on now, if just hanging by some balloons with oily fingers...sigh.
Things are "quite curious". Exciting times I guess.
Seems that so much that we were taught later got debunked - or so we are told. Geez - I remember being taught there were only two genders. Now we have 49, give or take?
That is just it! Value. Currently I Value No Phone Contact, No Internet, more than purchasing a booster. I can always boat 1 mile away and get a Cell Signal and review my Texts.
I still recall my Father calling me one Saturday, while I was in one of His Old Duck Hunting Blinds. He was amazed that Technology had come this far. His Technology when he Hunted was 3 Cabins tied together by a Phone line, with a Crank Type, Wall Mounted Phone.