I've spent the past 9 years living off grid in a yurt in the mountains of central Vermont. All of my heat, hot water, and cooking is powered by firewood burned in my wood cookstove for about 7 months of the year. During the other 5 months, I cook, heat water, and cool my home with solar power. My wife and I harvest all of our firewood from our land or take already down trees from our neighbors and spend a great deal of time throughout the year bucking, splitting, and stacking all the wood needed to power our home. Our water is gravity fed into our stone cellar from a spring just uphill of the yurt, and I haul it upstairs everyday in 5-gallon buckets. Likewise, I catch all of the graywater from our sinks and clawfoot bathtub in containers and haul it outside each day to our graywater pit. We use a humanure composting toilet system in the house, which fills a great many buckets that we dump into our compost pile on the weekends and cover with hay. This pile then produces an enormous amount of fertilizer for our gardens each year. And when it comes to yard work, I keep the grass mowed around my house with a human-powered push reel mower, an electric weed whacker (charged using solar power), and a good old fashioned scythe for my field.
If you are willing to move to a fairly remote, rural place and build a homestead, I'd say it is still possible to live a somewhat low-powered, low consumption, simple life. But I'm not gonna lie. It involves a lot of physical labor each day, each week, and each season to keep everything running smoothly. On the other hand though, when flooding, ice storms, and strong winds knock out the power in my town throughout the year, I'm never affected. My power is consistent and reliable (although rationed by the weather). And my phone and internet service runs through satellite dishes, which are also remarkably reliable. There's quite a lot of value in building something resilient, even if it does require regular work to maintain.