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My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by Lambdanaut »

brandall10 wrote: post #157

Just for people new to who Tynan is, he's a pretty far out guy. Some things I recall (sorry haven't kept up over the years) 1) Ran a successful professional online poker playing business, actually hired employees and trained them to predictably win. 2) Was one of the main characters in the book The Game (yes, that PUA one). 3) Did polyphasic sleep experiments in earnest (was it a couple months or so?). 4) Had a giant…

> 5) Sold all his belongings, including said house, and travelled the world for a year with almost nothing... probably in 2k8 or so before such an idea became more commonplace.

Didn't Jesus do this?

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by tynan »

tocomment wrote: post #348
tynan wrote: post #194

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Thanks! That's definitely the highlight reel!

Can we get a blog post about the pool thing? I've always wanted to try that but my brother told me my house would collapse :-(

It's really poorly written, but here's what I wrote about it 8 years ago: http://tynan.com/the-infamous-ghetto-indoor-pool

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by coldtea »

xerophtye wrote: post #290
coldtea wrote: post #251

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> Although I'm happy to be saving money, my _primary reasons_ for living in an RV are that it _forces me to be minimalist and focus on what matters_, and it's a lot of fun. I've modified nearly every aspect of the interior of my RV (...) Some of the changes include: > Maple and marble floors > Brazilian granite countertops >Japanese-style tea room in the back complete with rush-reed tatami mats and mulberry shoji scr…

Consider it this way, in an RV has a small amount of room so there is a limit to the cool stuff he can put in it. So he has to CHOOSE what stuff to keep. I men lets not forget about the giant inflatable pool in the living room incident. you simply can NOT do that in an RV

>So there is a limit to the cool stuff he can put in it. So he has to CHOOSE what stuff to keep

First world minimalism.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by tocomment »

jacquesm wrote: post #86
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #74

I was struck by the "climate does not matter" part - I have always assumed Canada will be one of the 22nd century's big winners in climate change terms (lots of nice melted permafrost agricultural land and an extra 6 degrees would be balmy) the upshot of this is I assumed land north of Toronto is always going to be a good buy for grand children. am I thinking too small?

I still have 100 acres for sale there if you're interested ;)

Why are you selling?

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by tocomment »

tynan wrote: post #352
tocomment wrote: post #348

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we get a blog post about the pool thing? I've always wanted to try that but my brother told me my house would collapse :-(

It's really poorly written, but here's what I wrote about it 8 years ago: http://tynan.com/the-infamous-ghetto-indoor-pool

Wow! Great point about being 72 degrees. I never thought of that.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by wissler »

mcv wrote: post #316
wissler wrote: post #286

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Actually, no you can't build anything you want, and no, it's not really your property.

It is your property, but it's not your sovereign country. You still need to obey the law of the country your property is part of, and that severely restricts what you can do with it.

It is not your property. If it were your property you could build whatever you wanted so long as you don't bring harm to others. The word you're looking for is not property owner but "tenant."

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Post by kposehn »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #67

Congratulations! This is something I've always thought would be cool too. 5 acres is a good size, large enough that you can feel "away" when you are in the middle of it, but not so big that you can actually get lost. Some suggested next steps. Get a good aerial survey done, with pictures. This will help in planning, in disputes, and later in figuring out what it looked like before that thing that just happened, happe…

I must see this narrow gauge railroad he built :)

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by burgerz »

dsuth wrote: post #297
burgerz wrote: post #231

Why not just disclose the price?

Probably because it's none of your business. Seriously, what could you get from a firm figure that you couldn't get from the generalisation of between 10 - 100k?

Why not just answer the question? Why all the secrecy surrounding cost when one could easily find out how much something costs? If somebody asks, it's because they are curious of the value. 10-100k is a huge range that most islands would fit into.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by burgerz »

mcv wrote: post #322
Nicholas_C wrote: post #126

I hate to be the Debbie Downer but this seems like something that feels really cool and fun at first but then loses it's novelty after a while and then gets forgotten about.

If they cleaned it up and improved it a bit, they might be able to sell it at a profit.

So everything is about money, not doing something adventurous and exciting. zzzzz.
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