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From: Bob Conrich (no email)
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 17:06:49 EST
In case you happen to be going from Chile to Cape Town...
My company has business interests in St. Helena and
Dependencies, so I've been to Tristan da Cunha, the world's
most remote inhabited place. 300 people living in a
spectacular setting, in sort of a semi-communal arrangement
under the British flag, with quite a nice standard of living.
But they have no harbour or even a decent anchorage and the
seas are often rough, so it's a long, very long way to go
and when you get there you'll be afraid to leave the boat to
go ashore.
There is no private sector. Everyone who works, works for
the government, which owns all commercial endeavours. But
in some mysterious way, when everything is government, there
IS no government -- there is just "us," as they say. And it
works - a caring, close community that I admire greatly.
"Don't miss it if you can."
Bob Conrich
Anguilla, B.W.I.
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