Atlantis locales
jbrenner and I have been privately discussing Atlantis locales and he suggested I bring a couple to the table for discussion. Based on my research last year, and my decided preference, I offer these two locales for your information:
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/c...
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/c...
One is much larger, more desirable and, unsurprisingly, more expensive. It, however, offers more area for expansion as the community would grow. Both offer freehold status, though autonomy may be a bit harder to negotiate. Methinks commercial (read resort) development might be a possible income source though that would make the property more desirable for appropriation by an inimical entity bent on depredation.
Enough from me. Have at it, y'all.
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/c...
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/c...
One is much larger, more desirable and, unsurprisingly, more expensive. It, however, offers more area for expansion as the community would grow. Both offer freehold status, though autonomy may be a bit harder to negotiate. Methinks commercial (read resort) development might be a possible income source though that would make the property more desirable for appropriation by an inimical entity bent on depredation.
Enough from me. Have at it, y'all.
http://exclusiveview.knightfrank.com....
Pick a place to start a business with Gulch members being considered as prefered stockholders.
Have you heard of 'strata titling'? Apparently it is where all of the units of an apartment building get recorded as private residences. These can subsequently be bought and sold based on the calculations of the owners.
In Australia we have a self-managed super fund scheme, I think that the best way to describe it to Americans is a 401k controlled by the individual that it affects.
I would like to create an agricultural business that focuses on 'industrial-scale organic agriculture' each resident (+family - multiple generation hetero prefered) would be able to create a productive permaculture garden that sells its extra produce to a cooperative owned food processing facility.
Each 'garden' would be ~10 acres/4 hectares in size.
To get around the need for a Midas Milligan, buying an insurance policy contract that acts like a mortgage - you don't need to be fully funded up front, but the contracts create a pool that can be used as collateral against development finance.
To gain concessions for the business conglomerate, we need to help the state deal with its problems in a constructive manner.
1 hectare = 2.5 acres
3200 ha = 8000 acres (~12.5 sq mi)
Maybe we will have our Midas Mulligan someday. But right now they're making all the money they can before the economy flounders because the Fed are bunch of flounders.
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
Got a spare $50 billion to get started?
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The reason I said "about 10 sq mi" is I knew 640 acres= 1 section or one sq mi. So, 3200 ha would probably be equivalent to 6400 acres, therefore, 10 sq mi., more or less.
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I contacted the agents handling the property. Took them awhile to get back to me. Upshot is looks like a nice piece of property (asking NZ $5,000,000 or US $3,164,324). Encompasses most of western peninsula (equals an area of about 10 sq. mi. (if my math is reasonable. freedomforall, check me on this, please) Property is agriculturally sustainable and offers some other developmental opportunities. There seems to be a variety of sporting and some cultural activities on the island. Now, if I can figure out how to attach the e-mail download to this, you all can see that at which I am looking. (HA! Correct grammar strikes again.)
http://mail.airmail.net/email/scripts...
I hope this works.
If we are going this route, I'd upscope again and plan for Mars.
I view squaring away such a population and securing a tangible, resource-rich location with some scope as good for me, and good for the rest of us.
Short of a naval blockade, half measures like embargo are not very effective, except perhaps in raising prices. I agree that self-sufficiency is good, but it comes down to the degree that is acceptable.
-A business incubator that sets up in a remote location under a tax abatement program and enjoys surprising success and turns into a veritable city-state
- a colony of eccentric retirees on their remote island
-people building infrastructure for researchers in Antarctica, which currently doesn't belong to one single nation state
-a troubled nation state (e.g. Venezuela) looking for a good model of government.
-a space station.
All that sounds fantastical, but so does building a powerful nation based on the ideas of great philosophers in a remote corner of the world.
I think a tiny gulch is unsustainable. I want a real country. Not concerned about stepping on some toes
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