Our thoughts with all our French brethren

Almost getting numb from all the mayhem. School shootings in the US, terrorists killings abroad and 30,000 traffic deaths in the US each year, mostly due to stupidity.
Need to find me some deserted island in the Bahahas to get away from the evil and the stupid.
Human life has no value anymore, probably never did.
Be careful out there.

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If you could pick one up, I'll wash your boat for life for a second slip.

Actually, I have a lot/ slip in Leisure Lee. Just cant afford to build on it.
No building, No utilitys. It will collect dust and flies as it has for many years.

It's expensive to escape. 762x39 (and more) in inventory.

When I got the message about this I thought it was missing a . in the mix there.

Yes, you are correct.
7.62x39

I've been a fan of tree houses for years, and often thought of building one on an island somewhere in the world. I considered one in the Bahamas (the old 'Royal Island' that a friend was going to become the caretaker for), but it had no trees near the beachside. And I looked at a couple of islands off the coast of Cuba and Panama, but they had no trees (at least big ones) either.

But I always deferred to the idea that Walt Disney built a big tree house at Disney World (the original Swiss family tree house) out of CONCRETE, and it looked real convincing. So the sky is the limit with possibilities.

(I do realize you likely can NOT built such a tree house on that property you have in Leisure Lee, ha...ha)

Well, if I sold everything, cashed in retirement accounts and started as a male prostitute, I could possibly afford my own island.

We would die of old age waiting for the Bahamian Politico to permit us to build anything.

Oh, I was the Crappy Gigolo. Didn't help

Floating home has it's merits.

Now, If we could just squat on an old oil rig or WWII observer station over warm water.

Nah, you just gave me an idea..

You are on....
Well, in all seriousness, it would be great to get out of big cities and just lay in the sun with no news, no mayhem, no evil people.
I have been enough to Paris, London, Tokyo and every major town on the planet. Don't need anything except a good woman, a good boat, a good book a good beach and a good bottle of rum.
No TV, no traffic jams, no taxes, no nothing except the above.

I thought that after the British government got out of control that a private person could not buy an island any longer?

I've done a bit of research on these as well.

Just purchasing a lot, permits, approvals, more permits just to get an approval, is nerve racking.
Trying for years to get a checking account there. Submitted security forms and applications to apply for applications.
The lot and building was a bad idea.
Fixing to wash my hands of the lot idea and later buy (or lease) a ready made house.

A cruising permit is much cheaper.