How was your transition?

[Dan R-M]

I'm putting this out there 'cause we're thinking again of making yurt livin' our first priority in getting over to the garden site. Put us down as serious flip-floppers.
And we're trying to think this through as well as possible before committing to getting a real, honest to goodness, solid yurt.
For those of you who live full-time in your yurt, what was your transition like? I want a good cross-section of positives and negatives.
We're looking at moving 1/4 mile from our current place, which is my Mom's house. And it's great - has amenities like running water, electricity indoors, internet, heat. A mere 1/4 mile away we will have none of these, at least at first. We'll carry water till we have the well figured out. We'll have power in a nearby shed for a fridge. And we'll put in a little wood stove. We'll have to go somewhere else for internet.
Of course, there are enough upsides to give us reason to make this move, but I would love to hear from folks how they cope, what surprises they might have faced, what secret joys they experienced, and whatever else might come to mind. This will help us a great deal in envisioning what we're getting ourselves into.