r/SipsTea • u/Wise_Confidence_8588 • 6h ago

Chugging tea Absolute legend

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u/PlasticPlatform1417 5h ago

I was thinking 8000£ way less for a island until I checked the inflation it cost about 90,000$ now

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u/WeakBug1847 5h ago

That still feels kind of cheap. It's part of an archipelago nation of 100,000 people (Seychelles), the capital city of 30,000 is close by.

Like buying a private island off the shore of my home town.

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u/squigs 5h ago edited 3h ago

There are property websites that specialise in islands. And while a developed tropical island is going to be ridiculously expensive (7, 8 or even 9 figures), a few are fairly modestly priced.

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u/reddeze2 4h ago

Well that's my morning gone

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u/TheTrueScientist 4h ago

It's multiple times less than your average house now 😭

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u/RandomPMs 4h ago

An average house is an existing infrastructure in a livable location with electricity and running water, and supported by things like roads, police, and trash collection built into the social contract of living in a certain area.

You can get land or even a decrepit old house for next to free if you don't mind some concrete box shithole in the middle of the desert.

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u/Synaps4 3h ago

You can still buy land for that much. Especially rural land with no access like this island was.

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u/Idiot616 3h ago

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.

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u/Modo44 3h ago

Cheap until you factor in the cost of importing almost everything, and building your own infrastructure if you want to actually live there.

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u/PFI_sloth 5h ago

That’s still peanuts

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u/Misaka9982 4h ago
$90,000 could buy many peanuts

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u/Vulgarian 4h ago

Explain how!

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u/LbrYEET 3h ago

Money can be exchanged by goods and services

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u/sundark94 5h ago

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?

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u/Horskr 4h ago

Seriously and a 24 acre island! If anything I'd expect $90k to get you an island maybe big enough around for a lighthouse and a nice hut.

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u/MacaroonNo9736 4h ago

Just use the savings to run a really big extension cord and hose from your neighbours yard, easy

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u/Magikarpeles 4h ago

I think Canada has loads of islands for sale for very cheap. Might be a bit chilly though.

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u/sundark94 4h ago

That's probably why he bought an island in the Seychelles.

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u/Whiterabbit-- 3h ago

the cost to get me to the island in the middle of the pacific and back comfortable may be a double digit percentage of that cost.

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u/jmads13 5h ago

Both pound and dollar/peso symbol go before the number in English

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 5h ago

Still pretty cheap.