For the libertarians among us who dream of building better communities:
The 760-acre getaway is complete with a stone schoolhouse and 9 traditional cottages all for $2.3 million (or in three cheaper lots).
Stop the presses! The best escape fantasy ever is on the market and could be yours for a mere $2.3 million, or about the cost of a Manhattan condo.
Tanera Mor is the main island of the Summer Isles, an idyllic archipelago a mile and a half off the northwest coast of Scotland near Ullapool. You want seven miles of rugged cliffs, sheltered coves and beaches? Make an offer! The island is 1.6 miles long and 1.2 miles wide, has spectacular views and sustains itself with generators and wind turbines for 24-hour electricity; plus, a freshwater treatment works.
(Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Tuesday October 18 2016, @05:01AM
I always thought I wanted a private island. Someplace secluded and scenic. And maybe I still do a little. But what would one do after acquiring it?
I'd rather use that 2.3 mil and build a gorgeous estate on the mainland on a secluded patch of land. I'd have my privacy and views, yet still be easily able to drive to the nearest pub. I consider that a win-win.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by snufu on Tuesday October 18 2016, @05:08AM
Good oceans make good neighbors.
(Score: 2) by julian on Tuesday October 18 2016, @05:26AM
Any contingency which would necessitate an ocean barrier will necessarily preclude one.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @05:40AM
The wording of your comment makes my theologian detector go "bing". Am I right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @03:06PM
A good ocean is one that's not defiled by foul wind turbines.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 18 2016, @04:54PM
Those wind turbines will vanish quickly after the end of civilization, unlike strip mines and nuke domes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @09:19PM
Define "quickly".
(Score: 2) by Bogsnoticus on Tuesday October 18 2016, @06:04AM
The island has its own cafe. No reason why you can't dual purpose it so it gives you the caffeine in the morning, and alcohol in the evening.
Best of all, it's your island. No matter how drunk you get, you are still allowed to drive home after getting muntered.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday October 18 2016, @09:25AM
No you wouldn't, assuming the public have access to the cafe which would be a given.
You could easily walk back though, given it's under 2 miles
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @11:49AM
Sounds like communism. On MY libertarian island, everyone will drive F-150 trucks and roll coal at pedestrians. Live Free.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday October 18 2016, @11:52PM
The island has no roads, and only one poorly defined track. It's probably not a long walk home, (or stagger) but bearing in mine this is North West Scotland, getting lost outside might involve a nice case of hypothermia.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday October 18 2016, @09:23AM
And how do you get back from the pub?
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Tuesday October 18 2016, @02:44PM
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by ledow on Tuesday October 18 2016, @09:47AM
Even in an estate, you're still able to get bad neighbours, bad access, burglaries, intruders and all sorts.
Not that a bit of water would stop that, but it's much harder to organise, some months of the year you will be completely inaccessible, and you aren't going to have people peering over the wall at you to see if there's anything worth nicking.
If you can afford to own and maintain the island, entertainment on it is hardly difficult to come by. Invite all your friends to live there rent-free, build your own damn pub, etc.
I always find it hilarious that people get rich and then get bored - I mean, seriously? You can do ANYTHING.
I won't ever understand the drug culture among the rich and famous though. You're rich, famous, able to afford and do anything - climb everest, go into space, make your own movies, own your own island, fill it with entertainers, get personal concerts from other celebritries. And all you can think of to do with the money is melt your own brain or become alcoholic?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday October 18 2016, @02:58PM
> I won't ever understand the drug culture among the rich and famous though. You're rich, famous, able to afford and do anything - climb everest, go into space, make your own movies, own your own island, fill it with entertainers, get personal concerts from other celebrities. And all you can think of to do with the money is melt your own brain or become alcoholic?
I knew some legitimately rich people, they are quite fine and not destroying themselves.
Those who do are possibly grown and influenced by a bad environment.
How bad could it be? well if this guy hit some truth... www.whale.to/b/inside_the_lc.html
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday October 18 2016, @03:09PM
I think it might have something to do with the fact that you can do ANYTHING. Well, almost anything, as a certain American billionaire is finding out the hard way. Which means that there's fewer challenges in your life unless you create some for yourself.
It also has something to do with how you get rich. If you are rich because of money you earned yourself, then you basically worked all the time and have little life outside of working, which means that when you reach the point where you don't need to work anymore you don't know what to do. Alternately, if you are rich because you inherited the money, you've basically been sitting around being rich your entire life and probably are sick and tired of it by the time you've been doing it for 20+ years.
What's needed, but missing, is the concept of "a gentleman and a scholar". In other words, these kinds of people should be looking to enrich their lives with education and science and other intellectual stimulation.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 18 2016, @04:42PM
Some of that is a pearls before swine type of deal. MAy stars and celebs are nobod Take some random dumb ass and make them a millionaire performing in TV, Movies, music or sports, etc. But no matter how much money they make, they are still the same dumb ass. They don't have thoughts of space, travel, culture or whatever. They just buy stupid shit, burn themselves out and go back to being poor nobodies.
Then you have the has-beens. Take any celebrity who was famous in the past and now they cant get work. They had everything, money fame, (wo)men, luxury, the world. They they get cast aside for the next hot new star/player/etc. They must feel devastated, worthless and insignificant. How do they pay the taxes on their $10M estate? Drugs and booze are great for suppressing those thoughts if only for a short time. Next thing you know they are a wasted has-been who cant even get a bit part or celeb spokesperson/promotional gig.
Then you have people who cant cope with the sudden rocket ride to the spotlight. You go from joe blow to Johnny Depp, the man everyone wants to see! Cameras everywhere, paparazzi following you everywhere. You cant even do regular stuff like grab a slice of pizza or go shopping without people harassing you for photos or autographs and again the fucking paparazzi in tow. You make one mistake or date some star and its national news. Go to the beach and your dick or tit falls out, OMG the world must see your private bits, it wants to see, it MUST see those things you want kept private. Your mug is on the TV, Newspaper, magazines. Then people print vicious stuff about you. Again, booze and drugs are a great escape from a total loss of privacy.
And then you have the Richard Bransons and Elon Musks who are non stop doers and keep themselves busy and ignore all the bullshit.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday October 21 2016, @06:23AM
Tanera Mor is the main island of the Summer Isles
You could title yourself Lord Summerisle. I hear the Beltane Festival there can be quite fun.