Your Own Island

Ina

Ina

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If you could afford your own island where would it be located? How large would it be. What would you build on it, if anything at all. What would you do for power? Who would you allow to come on your island? What do you think you would be doing for entertainment. Would you live there permanently or just for short periods?
 

I'd love to have an island near Hawaii that I would use during the lengthy winter months where I live. It would be fully equipped with all the necessities of modernity, like electricity etc. I'd photograph everything and write poetry, I'd cook delicious meals using freshly caught fish and sea food. I'd master relaxation and sleeping in a hammock. LoL. :eek:
 
Chic's island sounds like heaven to me, maybe I could rent a beach hut ? :cool:
 

Well Chic, it looks as if you have given this a thought or two. From the looks of things you might want to start a retreat. You already have a following. Everyone needs company, so maybe Wren and Terry123 can share your start up costs.

I was watching one of those science programs, and a man has built his own island out of discarded construction waste and clay soil. He just kept building his island layer by layer, and then he top it all off with top soil and clean sand.

He said he wanted to try taking one of those floating masses of trash that has been building in our oceans, and using that as part of his next floating island. I'm not sure how that would work, but I'm for anything that will help clean up our oceans.

Now I find the idea of a floating island fascinating. My imagination sees so many options with this concept. You could actual visit around the world, and not have to leave your island home until you decided to go site seeing on one of the continents. I wonder if it would be possible to incorporate an old tug boat or defunct ship as a power source for navigating from place to place.

Of course there has to be many pitfalls with this idea, but it's a fun concept to think about.

Just think, you could be king or queen of your own realm. :grin:
 
I'd have everything chic said. But I'd live there full time. I'd own 90% pf the island. On the other 10% would be a dock, airport-long enough for the biggest planes, stores, restaurants, pleasure giving businesses-(wind surfing, parachuting, etc.) other estate owners (not according to their ability to pay (some plots $1), but how they fitted in to my island). I wouldn't be a god, but maybe his right hand guy.
 
I want two islands! Can I have two islands? One for summer and one for winter. I'll take a Hawaiian one for winter and one off the coast of Maine for summer. I can dream, can't I? Maybe I can BE an island! They say "no man is an island" but they didn't mention anything about women, did they?
 
Ina said:
If you could afford your own island where would it be located? How large would it be. What would you build on it, if anything at all. What would you do for power? Who would you allow to come on your island? What do you think you would be doing for entertainment. Would you live there permanently or just for short periods?
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If family lived nearby, I would love a permanent home in the FL Keys, maybe Marathon. The Keys have the same everything as the Bahamas, just not as many Palm Trees and tropical flowers, but it's a much more convenient travel.

I'm intimated by tropical growth with pythons, alligators, etc., so I don't want an island. I much prefer a nicely developed condo area, lots of amenities, and a lot of neighbors all over 55.

For entertainment, I would socialize w/neighbors & have family and friends down, lots of cocktail hours, and dining out for seafood.
 
jujube said:
I want two islands! Can I have two islands? One for summer and one for winter. I'll take a Hawaiian one for winter and one off the coast of Maine for summer. I can dream, can't I? Maybe I can BE an island! They say "no man is an island" but they didn't mention anything about women, did they?
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That sounds pretty nice. I forgot about summertime cuz I love it so much anyway, but a summertime island in a Northern clime would be very cool. The air is so comfortable and refreshing.
 
I would like an island with all different kinds trees and a sunny spot for my garden and flowers with a small but sandy beach for when I wanted to take a dip. Not in the ocean but way off the shore of a huge lake. My rustic home would be right in the middle with a canopy of trees overhead so not a soul would know I was there. I'd have pets galore. Just a simple motor boat would do so I could come in for supplies now and then.
 
Ina, I would prefer a castle on some land with a moat around it, with mosquito eating fish and a big drawbridge. You could think of it as a huge island in a tiny pond. ;) Then you wouldn't have to worry about storms or hurricanes.
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Well all of you seem to have good ideas on the island venture. It seems everybody wants an island. For myself, I think I would much prefer a mountainous island on a lake way up in even more mountains.

But whether ocean island or inland island, I really like the idea of being able to make up the governing laws, or being able to discontinue them whenever I chose.

What laws would you implement, and why?
 
As much as I love ocean front locations and watching shows about ocean front home buying (they even have one about buying islands), I wouldn't want to own an island anywhere. I believe we are going to see the sea levels rise more and there will be more severe weather events that will lead to floods and other destruction. In fact I just watched a Nova show about that. Many beaches have suffered erosion and it will only get worse. Right now I'd just be happy if I could get the chance to visit an island....perhaps Bermuda.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
As much as I love ocean front locations and watching shows about ocean front home buying (they even have one about buying islands), I wouldn't want to own an island anywhere. I believe we are going to see the sea levels rise more and there will be more severe weather events that will lead to floods and other destruction. In fact I just watched a Nova show about that. Many beaches have suffered erosion and it will only get worse. Right now I'd just be happy if I could get the chance to visit an island....perhaps Bermuda.
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I've watched those shows, sometimes it seems like a nice idea, sometimes not so much, there's a whole lot of maintenance that comes along with all that space that I know I wouldn't be up for and by the time I figured it out, it wouldn't be such a private island unto myself and the few choice friends and family I would want to join me.


These are some of the funnier ones, the full episodes on the show give better views and are more encouraging.

 
Pappy said:
Hi April. If Chris Krolow is involved, you better have several million dollars to invest. I do enjoy these type of shows. Watch them all the time.
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Hi Pappy, I agree most of the time when Chris is involved, the selections of islands are in the millions, but ever so often, they've shown a few nice ones in the low, mid and upper 100's. How he manages to find some of these lower priced ones always shocks me, I think most were located in the states.
 
Ina said:
Well all of you seem to have good ideas on the island venture. It seems everybody wants an island. For myself, I think I would much prefer a mountainous island on a lake way up in even more mountains.

But whether ocean island or inland island, I really like the idea of being able to make up the governing laws, or being able to discontinue them whenever I chose.

What laws would you implement, and why?
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I'd have a noise curfew on my island. I value my rest and hate the noise of others up all night carousing and keeping me awake. I'm not a huge fan of rules and regulations, because it can inhibit creativity. So I'll add laws as I think of them or see a need for them.

What about you, Ina? What laws would you impose on your island paradise?
 
My island would be in the Florida Keys, be private but with a causeway (with gatekeeper) directly connecting to the Overseas Highway. In addition to all the amenities necessary for comfort, there would be a couple of very large Dobermans. Islands are very vulnerable to boat traffic and a fence would spoil the beauty.
 
I don't think that I would want to live on an island, and for sure, not on a mountain top either, Ina. Actually, where I would really love to live is somewhere along the West Coast of either Washington or Oregon. My favorite place is Astoria, which sits at the mouth of the mighty Columbia River, where it meets the ocean.
The houses there are mostly the older Victorian style, and the views of the ocean and the rivers that all meet at Astoria are spectacular !
The town is small enough to be comfortable, and large enough to have just about everything a person needs, and the climate is temperate year around.
You can cross the bridge into Washington, and find beautiful ocean beaches and towns there, or travel south along the Oregon coastline, and either way you go, everything is beautiful !

I think that I would want to live close in on the edge of town, but in one of the older homes, and have maybe an acre or so of land where I could have flowerbeds and a vegetable garden.
I would go fishing in the Columbia, and maybe even catch a sturgeon, and they even have the boat tours where you can fish for the larger fish. I would like to do that also; but even just spending a few hours on the bank with my fishing pole would be awesome.
Here is a short youtube video showing some of the beautiful sights along the Pacific Coast from Oregon into Washington, and north to Seattle and the majestic Mt. Rainier.

https://youtu.be/vkGhbC34Po4
 
Well I guess I'm just a country girl, that wants to live on an island :confused:, on top of a mountain. I like to live simply, so there would be no stone or concrete buildings on my island. One of the first laws would be that you must build in such a way that once you left, everything could revert back to it's natural state within five years.

There would be a library that regularly rotated it's inventory at least twice a year with a near mainland branch. We would have two small theaters. One for movies, and one for plays that we all could be part of.

I think a pub/restaurant would be available, but I would want that to be self sustainable as well.

Maybe a barter system could be of benefit to the economy.

We could have our own witch doctor! :rolleyes:

Maybe I should abdicate!! :hide:
 
That sounds nice Ina. Maybe a craft community would be nice where skilled people could share their fruits of their talents for the fruits of the talents of others.
 

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