So he moved to SD to provide a stable home for his child, who lived with him, whom he was raising, but he couldn’t leave because she lived there? This is a fancy way of saying Every Other Weekend Dad, right? He didn’t really have custody of his child. Who is no longer part of his life now. I’m also just going to offer my own opinion on “everyone should live off grid”, which is if off grid living is so great, why did we build a grid in the first place?