I bet you’ve dreamed of living on your very own island, away from the stresses of everyday life, surrounded by beauty, great weather and stunning fauna and flora. It was a line in Robinson Crusoe that resonated with me when Daniel Defoe wrote “I was absolute lord and lawgiver, they all owed their lives to [...]

What are the things that you can’t do in a city?  You can’t raise livestock (at least, not very easily), you can’t live on an acre or more of land (unless you’re way loaded), and you can’t really grow food.  At least not a lot of it – enough to feed an entire population.  What [...]

If you have an extra million bucks, and you don’t mind the possibility of hurricane-spawned oil seepage, it might be a good time to consider moving to coastal South Carolina.  No, seriously.  I suspect that many people in the coastal parts of the Southeastern United States are heading west as BP continues to fail to [...]