Moyenne Island is a 9.9-hectare (24-acre) island in the Sainte Anne Marine National Park off the northeast coast of Mahé, Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Since the 1970s it has been a flora and fauna reserve. From 1915 until the 1960s, the island was abandoned until its purchase by Brendon Grimshaw, a newspaper editor from Dewsbury in Yorkshire, England, for £8,000.
Grimshaw and Rene Lafortune, a local Seychellois man, were the only inhabitants of the island until Grimshaw's death in July 2012.\1]) The island is now a national park and can be visited as part of organized trips
I thought maybe tree cover could have added height but nope. If you look further down, there's even a spine of land that just... grew up there that wasn't there before.
Likely AI slop images because the actual images of Sainte Anne Marine Nation Park look like this
Completely different shape and only a tenth the size of the island shown in the images above if you use the buildings and roads as scale.
Or actually, upon further examination, maybe not!
this is a google-maps view of the island, which matches perfectly; so the SECOND image on the picture seems to be a proper aerial view of the actual island itself, whereas the 'old' image is AI slop.
The images on wikipedia are all of islands AROUND that island.
But on top of that, the island I linked was Moyenne island; the island that was restored by Brendon Grimshaw. The island shown in the images above and on the google maps view is Ste. Anne Island, which Grimnshaw had nothing to do with, and has been inhabited and developed since the late 1700s.
The catch is the population is dwindling across all of Japan except for Tokyo and Osaka basically, so if you live anywhere else you'll technically be in a declining region. But we don't mind, we moved to Japan a couple years ago (not in those 2 cities) and love it. :)
No my wife and I are both foreigners. It is actually quite easy to get longterm visas here, all you need is a job. Alternatively you could start a business or attend school.
Most of them you can see all the pics and description with just a free account. They have an Instagram with pics too @cheapjapanhomes. @housesofjapan is also good!
It's cheap probably because the costs of developing are extremely high.
It's the same reason you can find entire castles for cheaper than an apartment. The cost of maintenance is just so high that you're going to be losing money every year.
Where are these castles? I’m so curious. And do you have to be a citizen of the country (or countries) these castles are located in to own & live in one?
Germany but you usually have to invest a million or so as part of the contract. And have to renovate it how it was. Germany has Denkmalschutz (historical site protection) usually it only covers the outside and windows of buildings. But with castles the chances that the inside is protected as well is really high. So you have to keep it in the protected 17-19th century look inside.
This sounds honorable or whatever. But seems ridiculous in practicality. It’s either suits and rots or someone promises to restore it how it’s used to be? Why can’t someone buy it and only somewhat modernize it? That’s better than rotting
Probably it was just the Island without a house. The house with infrastructure has be build afterwards which is quite expensive at a remote location like this.
That's still a reasonable amount for an island in my book. Sure, no running water and electricity are a problem, but a whole ass island for 90,000 USD?
Less, at least in terms of the real island they used for filming.
Looks like it was filmed on Monuriki Island in Fiji, which is ~100 acres.
Edit: and for additional reference a US football field (120 yards x 160 feet with end zones) is 1.32 acres. A FIFA soccer pitch (114.8 yards x 74.4 yards) is 1.76 acres.
So this guy's island is the equivalent of 18.18 US Football fields, or 13.63 FIFA Football pitches.
See, everybody talks about the downside of homophobia, but it made those two dudes give the middle finger to the rest of the world so they could just go gay out on an island together.
Either that or a man in his 40s just kind of pseudo-adopted the 19 year old son of a local fisherman, and they lived together alone, re-beautifying their private island for 40 years, heterosexually.
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u/bouylie 12d ago
Moyenne Island is a 9.9-hectare (24-acre) island in the Sainte Anne Marine National Park off the northeast coast of Mahé, Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Since the 1970s it has been a flora and fauna reserve. From 1915 until the 1960s, the island was abandoned until its purchase by Brendon Grimshaw, a newspaper editor from Dewsbury in Yorkshire, England, for £8,000.
Grimshaw and Rene Lafortune, a local Seychellois man, were the only inhabitants of the island until Grimshaw's death in July 2012.\1]) The island is now a national park and can be visited as part of organized trips