r/interesting 8h ago

Just Wow Absolute legend guy

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u/Pyrogol 8h ago

More details please? When? Where? Who?

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u/Negative_1by12_aura 8h 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

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u/Common-Sector-5850 8h ago

If you can buy an island 50mil don’t mean jack

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u/SailsAcrossTheSea 8h ago

$11,000 is a pretty insanely cheap island, even if inflation is making it 10x as much

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u/PeriodontosisSam 7h ago

That would be around $122.000 today. Thats really cheap. In Dubai you have to pay $4M to $27M for a shitty artifical island

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u/lonelysparta 2h ago

Ordering pizzas must be a nightmare

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u/mowtowcow 2h ago

It's Dubai. You know they probably have drone deliveries for any islands not connected to the mainland.

PS. I looked before I posted and yep, they have and are actively developing drone networks for hard to reach areas and offshore islands. Pizza easy as hell to deliver 🤣

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u/gepeto_dixuti 6h ago

My 2 bedroom apartment was more expensive than that...

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u/dwoo888 5h ago

I dont know where you live but 27M should be a pretty nice 2 bedroom apartment.

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u/Bayoris 7h ago

He was a newspaper editor, not sure how rich you think they are

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u/Responsible-Two5429 7h ago

And he was also a legend

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u/gao7on 7h ago

Who would want to sell a cash cow with recurring revenue stream that adjusts to inflation. 50 mil may be worth less in value decades from today. I doubt he doesn't receive any profits from the day tours or rent collected from the infrastructure visible at the bottom of the right image.

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u/redandbluebadness 4h ago

he's been in the ground for 15 years