Alternative lifestyle is nothing at all for those who love to run away from their lessons in life
Living in remote location among best friends requires you to be in harmony with your innermost being, in harmony and in love with all around you, with all world. Then only after having understood all others and having learned to love all others are you mature to withdraw from the crowd and start a quiet life in nature.
Living in nature normally is a life without TV, without radio, without distraction. If you are involved with your own ego in a daily inner fight, then your life in nature soon may turn into a living hell for life.
However if you are in peace with yourself and all others, then life in nature soon will turn into paradise on earth for you and all your family and very specially all your children will love nature and adventure in nature!