I live on a little island off of America. Ask me anything.

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Due to living in a small island I'm frequently bored. Hence the thread.

Is it a bit like Anne of Green Gables? Which I know was Canada not America.

Do you get good cable tv?

Is there a high school?

Sorry, see you answered the school question.

Is WiFi reliable?

Do you ever solve murders too complex for Tom Bosley?

It does feel a little remote sometimes. Cabin fever is a very, very real thing.

We have a few friends here, but most of our good friends are on the mainland. We visit them and they visit us.

I'm desperate to see people in the winter and desperate for everyone to bugger off in the summer!

Dh does a bit of everything. In the winter lots of tree work and chainsawing.

In the summer he's a boat captain and manages one of the big summer houses.

I feel like it is very much like Anne of Green Gables!! I actually had a little cry in the garden last night as I felt so lucky.

I cry for very different reasons in the winter when my snot has frozen and I haven't seen anyone for days on end!

Is there a public ferry type service or do you need your own boat?

How did you meet your husband?

Oo I remember your post about your in laws too! You sound good!

Hmm, what do I want to ask? If someone had an accident, how long/how do you get to your nearest ER?

I used to summer on an Island near Bath, ME. Lovely!

Do you have one person on your island who knows everything about everyone and just cant keep their nose out of other peoples business ?

We had appalling internet but in the last 6 months have created our own broadband network. It cost something like 4 million and our taxes raised because of it. We now have super fast fibre optic though which were hoping will attract people here!

Do you have a grass skirt?

This is a view of our garden and from the ferry.

We do have a ferry that runs several times a day but having your own boat makes life 1000000 times better and easier.

I was working for a family in London and they brought me along on their holiday. He was their boat captain.

Aww sounds very romantic! In fact your whole lifestyle does. It's a dream of ours to live a life like this.

Did anyone else read those Making Out YA books you used to get free on the covers of magazines back in the olden days? They were set on an island in Maine, so I feel like I know your life intimately OP

Did you read them? Is it just like that? How did you end up there?

A grass skirt, hmm?? She lives near the border with Canada. She's hardly going to be prancing around in a grass skirt - even at this time of year

Hmm. Getting to the er would take us 20 minutes to get to the ferry/other boat, 15-30 minutes boat ride, 20-30 minutes car ride.

If it's urgent they would just life flight in the helicopter though.

We had a planned home birth with ds. Looking back on it now I'm that I had the balls!

Porky - EVERYONE knows EVERYONE'S business. You can't keep a thing secret.

And things change the more people they go through too!

It is a very different life to London. It's definitely made me a lot happier.

Weeeell, she might still have a grass skirt. I also only read the first page and decided she lives in Hawaii or somewhere like that.

I haven't read those books! I need to now!

Is it expensive to live there? Do I have to marry a local? DP would be disappointed but I think it would be worth it!

People here think I have odd dress sense but I think a grass skirt would be a bit much even for me.