Someone posted a site that offers islands around the world for sale. Most are in the tropics; Tahiti area, Phillipines, Australia and the Bahamas. A few are off the coast of Maine or Newfoundland, but I would pass on those. I want to tan not rust. Some you have to develop(hotels, bungalows). On some you just buy an acre of an island and share with others. I would want my own. Where can I borrow 3.25 million dollars? Could you take specially chosen friends and lovers to a distant tropical island, live there and not get bored. Would it be paradise at first and hell later if you couldn't leave?
2006-11-03 23:26:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It sounds a bit like Gilligan's Island. Could I be Gilligan?
2006-11-04 00:45:26 · update #1
Well ask "Off My Meds" where he got this idea. lol
I decided months ago that I wanted to form my own island nation. Heck I even offered people on here jobs if they helped me form a new government under the flag of "Mariannation!"
I wasn't joking when I said I so wanted to do this. I think everyone deserves a place to escape to.....and having your own island would be perfect. (Ok.....except during Hurricane season. But we would kindly ask the big storms to go around us and SURELY they would comply....*cough* right??)
Obviously borrowing the 3.25 million dollars isn't so easy. So I think we have to pool our resources. Heck.......it is a big island. We can split it three ways. 124 acres split three ways is around 41 acres a person. That way we are only paying 1.08 million each......right? (I don't teach math) However, Meds just told me that this is one off the coast of Baja that is 35,000 acres. As he said, "That's big enough for a Kingdom!" But meds doesn't always think of money. So I say we keep with the 124 acres!
We could invite other friends and loved ones. But we soooo have to be careful. Maybe conduct an interview process. Or our own version of American Idol. But with Island Idol, you get citizenship and .....well....the right to be on OUR island. :)
Meds, however, said that if you came along that the island would be overrun with too many teachers. I'm beginning to think that we need to vote Meds off the island already. *cough* His mother was a teacher and he's thinking he's ready to branch out. I'm thinking maybe he shouldn't come to the island at all now. I'm a little worried about his Oedipal complex. *sigh*
Specially chosen friends and lovers will be important. But we all have to go through a screening process. So..... if you don't like my daughters....well they are just out of luck. **waves bye bye to her babies as she boards the boat for her island** Hey.... You can afford to be a bit shallow when you own an island..RIGHT??
About getting bored? It doesn't mean you have to remain there 12 months out of the year. It is your getaway! So you can have a normal life but know you have your island to escape to .....uhm....your THIRD of an island that is. ;)
As for me? I think it would be paradise. On my third I would ban all clothes, all computers, all televisions and all treadmills. We'll also leave all political discussions to YOUR third of the island. I'm so loving this idea already!
**lays down her 1.08 million and begs the others to pitch in as well!**
2006-11-04 00:29:53 · answer #1 · answered by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Only one other person would be required there. Perhaps family if the island was big enough.
Definitely pets, lots of them.
If one had to think of survival everyday, that would keep us busy instead of petty squabbles that we have now.
But you didn't define the state of the island. Can we leave anytime we want to? Is there power, housing, food, etc.
That would change the dynamics of being on the island.
2006-11-04 14:03:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I couldn't leave... well then I'm not sure that I'd want to go there...cause it looks like it could turn into my own private hell. I'd want to take my best friends. I'd need for there to be like a 5star hotel on it that has AC and Satellite tv. A good chef as well...but still it would turn into hell if I couldn't leave...kinda like "The Beach"
2006-11-04 07:54:12 · answer #3 · answered by Lucky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeh, id be with my friends and grlfrend, and my parents
id like have an alfa romeo spider 360 or some really fast car
and a huge hous, know what i mean? have like a massive hows like schekille oneil and hos all over the place like 50 cnet in his music videos
and id get the money from friends, charity, banks, businesses
but id take me a long time but worth it
anyway
2006-11-04 07:33:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there were a few people I WAS going to invite. But having read the last answer, I think I'll limit the guest list to pets and redheads.
2006-11-04 10:06:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
if i could buy my own private Island i would take all my love one and friends and relatives to a tropic island
2006-11-04 07:34:46 · answer #6 · answered by EVA J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would want my own island - not tropical, though. Somewhere off Greece. I would want my husband and son there, and lots and lots of cats.
2006-11-04 07:30:22 · answer #7 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My family
2006-11-04 07:35:58 · answer #8 · answered by arveen paria arasuk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just go with your friends,family and me.Ok..
2006-11-04 07:30:40 · answer #9 · answered by dlamini b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My lovers....at least 10 of them....
2006-11-04 07:31:30 · answer #10 · answered by Duke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋