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Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?

 
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Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Land is free and plentiful, the weather is good and there would be little chance of confrontation with the neighbours.
Yet almost nobody wants to wants to move to Pitcairn, the tiny Pacific island that was settled by mutineers from HMS Bounty.

The population on Britain’s smallest colony has been dwindling for years, and there are now fewer than 50 islanders left. But locals are struggling to find new settlers to follow in the footsteps of Fletcher Christian, who led the mutiny.

Only one application has been received to move to the island, even though the government provides all immigrants with a plot to build their own house and temperatures stay above 62F (17C) all year round.

[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]

Just need a few Years and we could install the Government we want!
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03/21/2015 12:38 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
bump

Very interesting. Probable high weirdness factor there lol
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Land is free and plentiful, the weather is good and there would be little chance of confrontation with the neighbours.
Yet almost nobody wants to wants to move to Pitcairn, the tiny Pacific island that was settled by mutineers from HMS Bounty.

The population on Britain’s smallest colony has been dwindling for years, and there are now fewer than 50 islanders left. But locals are struggling to find new settlers to follow in the footsteps of Fletcher Christian, who led the mutiny.

Only one application has been received to move to the island, even though the government provides all immigrants with a plot to build their own house and temperatures stay above 62F (17C) all year round.

[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]

Just need a few Years and we could install the Government we want!
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03/21/2015 12:43 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
I'm ready. Let's go! :)
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?

"The island, one of 14 remaining British overseas territories, was tarnished by a child abuse scandal in 2004, when six men were imprisoned for sexual offences, including Steve Christian, the mayor and a descendant of Fletcher."


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03/21/2015 12:49 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Can u get good internet there? Hmm. I am ready to move.. Any shops, restaurants..

Wonder how much it costs to fill shipping container & haul my stuff isess over there.
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03/21/2015 12:50 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Easy to answer. People with money want to move somewhere else...people without money would like to move there, but no way to afford to live there.

....duh
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03/21/2015 12:51 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Easy to answer. People with money want to move somewhere else...people without money would like to move there, but no way to afford to live there.

....duh
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Living there is cheap. You just have to get there.
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03/21/2015 12:51 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Tropical sun ensures only melanin-rich populations will be viable there in the long term. Hybrids, such as those who live there now, won't find many desirables in the populations that would be ok to live there. Lily white off-worldlers won't last long.
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Pitcairn has no proper port or boat dockage.
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Tropical sun ensures only melanin-rich populations will be viable there in the long term. Hybrids, such as those who live there now, won't find many desirables in the populations that would be ok to live there. Lily white off-worldlers won't last long.
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It worked out okay for Fletcher Christian and his team. It's not like a Caribbean beachy island.
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03/21/2015 12:55 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Way to few people. And sounds like theyre all inbred. Probably should uninhabit the island or only base research scientists there -- not taxpayer funded inbred bastards!
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03/21/2015 12:57 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Ideal place to hide out a nuclear exchange! Probably on nobody's nuke map.
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03/21/2015 01:02 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
is weed legal there?
thats the only question that matters.
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Here are some panoramio-server photos of the island. "Impressive amounts of trash on the beach"

[link to www.panoramio.com]
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
It sounded good at first, then I checked the net speed: Supposedly, for the entire population: 10mbps. That means about 0.8 per person using it. Nothing modern will work.
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Can u get good internet there? Hmm. I am ready to move.. Any shops, restaurants..

Wonder how much it costs to fill shipping container & haul my stuff isess over there.
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no internet, shops, restaurants or anything.
hermits would get lonely.
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03/21/2015 01:07 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
It sounded good at first, then I checked the net speed: Supposedly, for the entire population: 10mbps. That means about 0.8 per person using it. Nothing modern will work.
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Suck it up. At least they have a bit of it.

Are ye in are are ye out? The need fresh blood there.
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03/21/2015 01:10 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Here are some panoramio-server photos of the island. "Impressive amounts of trash on the beach"

[link to www.panoramio.com]
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Something happened there between 2000 and 2004

A bunch of guys tried to take over the island, and got the Assange treatment > false sexual blabla

good read, excerpt from [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

The trial was punctuated by legal challenges from island residents, who denied the island's colonial status, and with it the United Kingdom's judicial authority. Defence lawyers for the seven accused men claimed that British sovereignty over the islands was unconstitutional: HMS Bounty mutineers, from whom almost all of the current island population is descended (together with Polynesians), had effectively renounced their British citizenship by committing a capital offence in the burning of the Bounty in 1790, they said. In a symbolic rejection of British rule, islanders still celebrated this act annually by burning an effigy of the Bounty, according to Paul Dacre, the Pitcairn public defender. The defence maintained that the UK never made a formal claim to Pitcairn, and never officially informed the islanders that British legislation, such as the Sexual Offences Act, 1956, was applicable to them.

In a judgment delivered on 18 April 2004, the Pitcairn Islands Supreme Court (specially established for the purpose of the trial, consisting of New Zealand judges authorised by the British government) rejected the claim that Pitcairn was not British territory. This decision was upheld in August 2004 by the Pitcairn Court of Appeal,[4] endorsing the claim of Deputy Governor Matthew Forbes that Pitcairn was British territory. A delay of the trial until the United Kingdom's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) decided on an additional appeal was rejected. The trial started on 30 September 2004.

On 12 October 2004, the Privy Council agreed to hear the case against British sovereignty on Pitcairn, but refused to suspend the trials pending the outcome of the hearing. It was announced on 18 October that upon being sentenced, the defendants would be freed on bail until the Privy Council ruled on the constitutionality of the trial. If the Privy Council had ruled in favour of the islanders (which constitutional experts considered unlikely), the trial and its conclusions would have been deemed null and void. The hearings before the Privy Council were expected to last two weeks and to be the longest in more than 100 years.[5]

Verdicts were delivered on 24 October 2004, with all but one of the defendants convicted on at least some of the charges they were facing. Those found guilty were sentenced on 29 October 2004.
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03/21/2015 01:13 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
how is the internet connection???

I can live anywhere...... but satellite internet sucks.

If they have an under sea cable, you could count me in
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03/21/2015 01:16 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Look up their wikipedia page. Children under 16 aren't allowed there, bcs half their men are pedophiles. You have to have lots of money saved, and enough money to build a house there.

No thanks.
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03/21/2015 01:18 AM
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inbred incestuous pedophiles, place is cursed
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Look up their wikipedia page. Children under 16 aren't allowed there, bcs half their men are pedophiles.
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Are you sure you're not confusing Pitcairn with Belgium ?
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03/21/2015 01:20 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
turn it into a prison island and put all the british pedos on it.the locals would have jobs and not feel weird around their new neighbors.
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03/21/2015 01:21 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Imagine how bad it must be if children are forbidden from going there.
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03/21/2015 01:28 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
[link to www.thesanjuans.com]

^^ The perfect island and place lies here.....5a
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03/21/2015 01:31 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
I bet if they would allow people to grow marijuana for personal consumption you'd have more takers. Otherwise I think it would get boring after a while.
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03/21/2015 01:31 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Land plentiful? It is about 2 miles long and a mile wide. Rocky. Thousands of miles from mainland. The Bounty boys picked their choice well. But its isolation became its downfall.
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03/21/2015 01:34 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
Look up their wikipedia page. Children under 16 aren't allowed there, bcs half their men are pedophiles. You have to have lots of money saved, and enough money to build a house there.

No thanks.
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and then there's that.
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03/21/2015 01:35 AM
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Re: Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?
If they could get rid of the pedos then I would love to live on the island. It is beautiful there.

Pacific Islanders are a weird lot but many are nice once you get to know them. I would like it better if more white people were there but I love island life.





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