I lived and worked on that island for 5 years. Lovely place.
sounds rad. of all the places i’ve lived and worked, the ones capital isn’t pushing people to “develop” have been my fave. it can make some aspects of modernity tricky, especially if you’re not a tinkering DIYer or impatient about delays from poor logistics chains.
i get that it sucks as a young person trying to make it if the thing you can do isn’t done there, but i grew up in a big dumb stinky megaregion, so the appeal for that has been dead for decades at this point. i can visit one if i get the itch, but i’m lucky that what i can do can be done wherever and my specialty tends rural.
it’s kinda funny being under like 60 and living in some of the really small places. like instant celebrity status, because you’re “young”. people know your name before you meet them. or as a friend of mine from a tiny river town put it, “when your only romantic prospect is somebody you heard about.”
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
