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Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)

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Re: Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)

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Post by dang »

Looks like this is the only past thread, if you can call it that:

Pitcairn Islands - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9116933 - Feb 2015 (1 comment)

But here are related articles that have been posted in the past (without comments):

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/12/16/pitcairn_islan...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/pitcairn200801

https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231033/http://www.winthr...

Re: Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)

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Post by micromacrofoot »

This reminds me of Arranmore island's request for immigrants (Ireland)... I earnestly pursued more information and it turns out they didn't even have anywhere for potential immigrants to live. It seems like the campaign started and ended at "move here" and there was no actual plan to help anyone do it. Pitcairn is much more isolated, with freight ships only coming every 3 months.

Re: Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)

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Post by teruakohatu »

This is partly administered by my country, New Zealand, although is not part of the Realm of New Zealand (New Zealand plus territories it controls), rather it is a British Overseas Territory.

The people living there are mostly descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their captives. There has been a long sad history of sexual abuse, with one third of the island's male population being convicted and imprisoned in the early 2000s. They were let out of prison to do jobs, such as unloading cargo ships, during the day because the island could not function otherwise.

There really are not many jobs to be had so migrants are not allowed to take local jobs, I guess they have to create a new job for themselves. According to Wikipedia they used to get 700 enquires a year for migration but nobody ever actually applied.

I am surprised nobody has tried using it as a stepping stone to get into New Zealand, because the Islanders can live and work indefinitely in New Zealand if they are of good character and good health.

Edit: I did not want to sound disrespectful so I edited my comment slightly.

Re: Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)

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Post by doublec »

I am of Pitcairn descent. My grandmother was born there. I'm a descendant of the mutineers Fletcher Christian, John Mills and Edward Young, and the Tahitian women who went there, Mauatua, Vahineatua, To'ofaiti and Teraura.

I've been to the island and I'm active in the Pitcairn community here in New Zealand. The island is a vibrant community of people working. When I was there they were very warm and welcoming. The island itself is small but with mountainous areas and there is much to see and do. The vibe on the island is very similar to any small rural town in New Zealand.

I have photos of the trip if anyone is interested http://cd.pn/pn2012/

Re: Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)

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Post by cupcake-unicorn »

This is crazy this showed up on HN. Years ago I had a dream about Pitcairn island. When I woke up I was like, does that even exist? Not sure how my psyche channeled this one up. Then I started reading about it and things are pretty sad there. You can see on the Wikipedia site some really shocking info like there's only one older administrator of the electricity system there and not to mention all the awful abuse scandals. It was super surprising to me though to see that foreigners were welcomed here and that more people hadn't taken this offer up!

I would say if you're interested in moving to an autonomous region I'd for sure check out Svalbard first, although they're undergoing climate change and it's hard for foreigners to get land there.

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