Offgrid living

Hard to tell. Definitely not where I live (Estonia) since local planning bureaucrats seem to have a fairly strict understanding of "how you are supposed to live". What follows is an imaginary conversation with planning officials over years:

• "why do you ask for a building permit, you've got to get a road first"

• "we want you to pay for the road, paving it, running road lighting along it, etc, please invest several hundred thousand into getting that road"

• "so, to bypass our demands, you built an agricultural building, please don't live there, at least not publicly"

• "you want to install solar panels, there's a permit for that"

• "so, to bypass our demands, you installed movable solar panels and a solar fence, we are severely concerned about it and consider taking action, but won't"

• "after years, out of sheer bordedom, we are intending to privatize your access way and attach pieces of it to other plots of land"

• "we can't take public ownership of it, as that could obligate us to build a road there, and we don't really understand why you wouldn't want to force us to"

• "oh, you spoiled part of our plan by requesting a power grid connection to be built along that path of land, now we're kind of stuck with it, but hey, let's try to obstruct getting the grid connection built"

• "let's have doubts about why a power grid connection is needed, as the buidling it might supply isn't properly registered"

• "oh, you have written that you need a power grid connection for a vehicle charging point and those have really low planning requirements, damn convenient to you, in fact you might get the connection built indeed"