Moving to an island...maybe...please help

went to hawaii for 11 days once, couldn't wait to leave. being a six-hour flight from anywhere would drive me crazy before very long. i felt like every random encounter I had with a transplant, they ended up telling me their whole life story, because they were dying for someone to talk to. beautiful beaches and climate and great seafood, but i felt just a teeny bit like i was in prison or something.

can i put in a word for costa rica. just as pretty, plenty of opportunities to lead kayak trips or fishing charters or whatever, but more latched onto something resembling civilization.

 

I lived on Guam for three years. I loved it.
However, island life is expensive, and it's a drag being broke in any environment.
However, as I said, I loved it, even though I was broke.

 

Not a word of this is incorrect. If you don't mind being on a small rock in the middle of the world's largest ocean, though, you could do worse than Hawaii. Maybe somewhere like Kauai, Molokai or Lanai would be secluded enough for the OP.

For those who want island life and don't want to bail on the business just yet, there's always this:

http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=904893

 

Nevis, Queen of the Caribbees

Great drinking, great gambling, great contentment.

 

what would a nightcap run on that island, lee?

 

Antarctica's an island, right? They have a kick-ass Holiday Inn there, as I recall.

 

Tom, a couple grand, and that with a rich girlfriend. But for a week, and with all the requisite indulgences (merriment, gambling, windsurfing, etc). I give it two bongs up, I would live there in a heartbeat and have given it consideration.

 

So you know my nickname is Ogie. Well, I'm fucked.

 

Iceland - All of the nation's electrical power is generated by hydroelectric and geothermal. They only use fossil fuels for cars and boats. So when peak oil hits, they won't be that affected by it.

 

I wouldn't say they won't be totally affected, but the impact will be minimal, yes.

Even better is that they are in the process of moving to all of their transportation to hydrogen, both cars and boats. They can do this because of the excess hydrogen produced through the geothermal process. Smart folks.

 

There are extra expenses to consider when moving to an island, and the more distant or remote, the more the expenses.
Land is at a premium, so rents and sale prices are high.
Gas prices are higher (Hawaii is the only place the government successfully investigated oil companies that were colluding to inflate prices) because everything has to be shipped in.
A lot of the regular groceries - milk, eggs, etc. - that you take for granted are more expensive.
Many of the things you enjoy, specialty items, are unavailable or really expensive.

 

If you don't mind winter, Newfoundland is one of the great undiscovererd places in North America.