If the UK is not ideal where should I emmigrate to?

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 03 Jun 2009, 13:42

emordnilap wrote:chips rather than curry

Don't you mean chips with curry?

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 03 Jun 2009, 13:42

The world's most remote island might be a safe place to be ...

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 03 Jun 2009, 13:46

Surely there are more remote spots than Tristan-da-Cunha. Heard Island perhaps?

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 03 Jun 2009, 13:56

Hmm, you want UNINHABITED & MOST REMOTE, eh?

OK, then you really want:

Erik · Post by **Erik** » 03 Jun 2009, 14:58

emordnilap wrote:Sorry about the long post.

And it was a most pleasurable rant to read!

Best bit:

Moving here made me relax for the first time in my life - the first time I'd ever really stopped and taken the time to think properly about what it means to be simply alive and alive simply.

Everybody should give this a try, yet so few do. What a crazy world we've made for ourselves.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 03 Jun 2009, 15:49

Erik wrote:
emordnilap wrote:Sorry about the long post.
And it was a most pleasurable rant to read!

Best bit:
Moving here made me relax for the first time in my life - the first time I'd ever really stopped and taken the time to think properly about what it means to be simply alive and alive simply.
Everybody should give this a try, yet so few do. What a crazy world we've made for ourselves.

The OH acquired herself some ducks and geese recently (it doesn't sit well with veganism but that's another story) and they are a further extension of what I said.

They want to be let out at a certain time, they take themselves to bed at a certain time. They are predictable and happy, they enjoy their life, they are loved, they are beautiful. The ducks go mad for slugs. The geese replace the mower.

They are also tremendously entertaining. At every opportunity, she or I simply sit and watch them live. It's a relaxing and thought-provoking occupation. Things matter less when watching them and listening to them; if they're happy, everything's ok with the world.

biffvernon wrote:
emordnilap wrote:chips rather than curry
Don't you mean chips with curry?

You know I don't. Unless you believe 'curry sauce' is curry, that is...

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 03 Jun 2009, 16:42

Vortex wrote:Hmm, you want UNINHABITED & MOST REMOTE, eh?

OK, then you really want:

Wikipedia say that Bouvet Island

is the most remote island in the world

so I guess you must be right. But maybe that's because it's all on it's own. Heard Island has the neighbouring McDonald Island and a few other bits of sticky-up rocks. Bouvet was discovered almost 100 years earlier than Heard and is a good bit nearer to continental land. both have their own Internet country code top-level domains, .bv and .hm, which doesn't sound very remote.

Ludwig · Post by **Ludwig** » 04 Jun 2009, 00:34

foodinistar wrote:I have no intention of leaving this country but if I did I'd want to go to New Zealand (along with several thousand other hopefuls I should imagine.)

Ditto - disappointed not to see it on the list! As for the xenophobia referred to elsewhere, the New Zealanders would probably welcome a British person more than most - and if not, the accent can't be that hard to master

If I could choose somewhere to be born, Russia has its appeal. As a foreigner there, though, one wouldn't last 5 minutes once TSHTF.

Ludwig · Post by **Ludwig** » 04 Jun 2009, 00:42

contadino wrote:Bangladesh could deal with PO pretty easily, but will CC is having a major effect.

I thought I read somewhere that the farmers in Bangladesh use diesel for their machinery.

I may be wrong but my perception is that Bangladesh would only "deal with PO easily" because it is already a miserable place to live.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 04 Jun 2009, 00:53

Ludwig wrote:
foodinistar wrote:...........the New Zealanders would probably welcome a British person more than most - and if not, the accent can't be that hard to master

Just remember that "six" is something you do with the wife or sheep.

jonny2mad · Post by **jonny2mad** » 04 Jun 2009, 11:39

The falkland islands a population less than 3,000 in a country the size of northern Ireland , great potential they speak english lots of fish and sheep, people garden , there arent many trees at the moment but it is possible to grow trees on the falklands and if you could you could create shelter belts that would cut down the wind .
potential for wave and hydro power and wind power , very likely oil and gas .
unpolluted clean air and water clean beachs full of penguins
negitives I suppose old landmines and argentina but you have a british garrison

low or no crime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iHqDJEa ... annel_page

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 04 Jun 2009, 11:55

jonny2mad wrote:very likely oil and gas .
unpolluted clean air and water clean beachs full of penguins

Is that a temporally separated oxymoron?

jonny2mad · Post by **jonny2mad** » 04 Jun 2009, 12:01

indeed it may well be

SILVERHARP2 · Post by **SILVERHARP2** » 04 Jun 2009, 12:54

Surely a Scottish Island would do the job of the Falklands? there was a prog on about one where they were encouraging people to come to it, seems like a good place to watch the world go by from?

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 04 Jun 2009, 22:44

I think the UK would have to literally disappear into the sea before I were to leave permanently. Free water (the stuff that falls from the sky...well unless the Gulf Stream packs up, that is) and our diseased soh, would be tough to leave behind.

If the UK disappeared, then the French would be the lucky winners of one CandideRenouvable and family. Although I'd be worried about how their nukes would pan out in a TSHTF scenario: handling the waste safely requires dedicated personnel and infrastructure, and afaIk France are still mulling this problem over.

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If the UK is not ideal where should I emmigrate to?

Given the potential impact of peak oil where would you emigrate too?