"Off" people in the South Pacific

It seems a lot of eccentric people gravitate to the South Pacific islands.... Loners, eccentrics, neurotics, paranoids, sufferers of personality disorders, folks with anger management issures. You meet them on all the islands.. Trying to escape from what they perceive to be a cruel world when in reality they are trying to escape from themselves.

There are also a few posters on this branch who also fit the bill.

Why is this?

troll ....a bad one at that

But what a wonderful area of the world to be neurotic in!

Actually, one could argue that living out here actually causes anger management issues. lol

Actually, I'll bite. I think there is some truth to this, and I have met a lot of them in my business. It is far from the mainstream of the world, a bit of education often goes a long way, and there is a fair tolerance in many places for the crazy white guy/gal. They often bring with them knowledge of the western world and how it works that comes with having been brought up in it and can use that to their advantage.

At the same time there are many people who go to the islands with tremendous altruism.

So although I agree that this is a troll, even trolls sometimes see a piece of the truth.

The Beachcomber who marches to the beat of a different drum - hasn't it always been thus?

Melville was one; Stevenson saw plenty; Maugham new them; Michener saw them.

From Fletcher Christian to Tom Neale, and a few living ones who I remember fondly and won't name out of respect.

Maybe it's just easier to find them amongst the sparse ex-pat population in many of the islands; and maybe it's easier to "not belong" when everyone can see that you don't belong (might sound a bit cryptic, but if you think about it will be clear!)

But hell, I have some respect for woever is brave enough to say "stuff this" and go somewhere completely "else" to find happiness or at least to lose their sadness!

And at least it's warm.

Rob

Warm with beautiful flowers.

I've met a few eccentrics (troppos) and find them quite delightful (well, one was an alcoholic semi-well known author so I suspect he'd be a bit off the wall wherever he lived). The same can be said for the more unconventional types who chose to live up north. Gawd, the world would be dull without them.

Well, yes but. There are also some beyond eccentrics who wash ashore on the islands. Most who live in the islands have a strong streak of eccentric- but there is the real fringe element.

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Case in point!

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