I can see the first part, absolutely, not ever wanting to raise children there is part of why I left London...
but you'd rather your daughter grew up in an inbred bigoted small-minded community that's 50% tax-evading criminals?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 9:57, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

I understand the crime rate is low. It appears to have a slower pace of life, the schools are apparently good, the weather is better, it's clean and the sailing would be amazing.

I think if my wife and I are good parents we can bring my daughter up to identify bigotry and see it for what it is.

Biggest problem would be buying a house on the open market.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:02, Reply)

I thought the biggest problem was actually being allowed to move there
without a well-paid job or being "independently wealthy"? Don't you need permission from the local people to live there, or am I thinking of buying property?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:16, Reply)

You do need a certain level of wealth to move there unless you are a key worker eg Nurse.
Not sure how close we would come to the wealth requirements.

There are two sets of property on the island - open market which is for non locals and closed for those born and raised there. It's a way of protecting locals so they don't get priced out of the property market in the way they have been elsewhere.

Property is expensive - our friends paid £6m for 7 bedroom farmhouse with 8 acres. We wouldn't be spending anywhere that.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:27, Reply)

I'd say it's more an extra tool
to rachet up the level of division and simmering resentment between locals and non-locals even more, personally.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:35, Reply)