I was always up for it, my wife had been on a few homesteader message boards for a little while and was having thoughts about it, and my 9 year old son enjoys the outdoors and all the extra time with retired mum and dad - and he still has his tablets and internet for down time (what most people would probably miss these days :) Extra work for me - keeping all the utilities available off-grid - which gets easier as more structure is built - but other than that we dont feel isolated or missing much from on-grid life. We just do things a little different now - a nice slower pace :)