Our World - St Helena - An End to Isolation

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St Helena is preparing for its new airport to receive its first flights. Our World meets St Helenians to discover how they feel about the end to their isolation.

[@patriciaandersonedwards5375]

I'm a st helenian I left home fifty seven years ago to live in UK I got married and only went back once and after sitting here and watching a documentary about the island I didn't appreciate how beautiful it is it will always be home because that's where my heart is .

[@fussypeg8561]

Spent a glorious half year there, practically the only tourist if you did not count the oddballs from the odd yacht anchoring at Jamestown. It was paradise, splendid isolation in awesome nature.

[@Gods_Favorite7]

I understand the people of the island feel unsure of this big change. However there are people like myself who live here in the US who' had a Great Grand Father & Mother who came over from Saint Helena in 1913 . I have been waiting for this moment to go visit the place where my family is from.....

[@CAwmy]

Ro Black they aint from there either

[@gailland8681]

I don't mind to move there

[@skinlesswalnut6259]

Ro Black take a boat bro?

[@rsacitizen6151]

My great grandfather comes from st Helena most of them have settled in south Africa about 22 000

[@musicmichi007]

Me also! I hope to visit soon

[@maribuckley6066]

What a fascinating place! I only hope the building of the airport doesn't change things TOO much for the islanders ☺

[@deannabircher2030]

+Mari Buckley sadly it will. A lot of changes already.

[@Paulohlsson7]

Hello

[@susn1987]

Actually, things changing is the whole point. They need tourism to survive in the long run. easier accessibility. that was one of the reasons for building it.

[@Foldisfitch]

@@susn1987 10,000 thumbs down!

[@cptgnrlsryssr6519]

Tourism will ruin this place, you don't know what you are talking about​@@susn1987

[@josecarvalho9388]

Cool... i wouldn't mind to visit saint Helena, i'm also an islander from the beautiful Madeira (Portugal) Big hug for all of you in Saint Helena ;-)

[@Kamofy]

José Carvalho they have no internet so won’t read your message 😂

[@gntluvr]

No mobile phones, no credit card. I want to move there now, forget about retiring there lol

[@ottobey1353]

Lls

[@UpandAbove2000]

i know what you mean, i call my phone anxiety not a cellphone...

[@jackmorgan1677]

That kind of isolation will disappear too. Satellites are becoming cheaper and cheaper so eventually they will hang one above the island providing 5G services to the islanders.

[@eyeLikeCarrots]

If you're visiting St Helena, book your accomodation well ahead of time. Try and book something down in Jamestown - if you book something out of town and don't have a car you face the horrific possibility of trying to climb Jacob's Ladder.... Or make sure your taxi/ride is booked well in advance.

[@sithlordhibiscus9936]

Can't you rent a bicycle for Jamestown/out of town transport?

[@eyeLikeCarrots]

@@sithlordhibiscus9936 I didn't look into booking a bike. But you have to ask yourself, "would you want to try and ride a bike up the hills leaving Jamestown"? Seriously, Ladder Hill Road upto Half Tree Hollow (the side of the valley where Jacobs Ladder rises upto the west is a murderous switchback". If you're very, fery fit you might do ok - I'm not. Taking Side Path upto the distillery or LongWood is just as bad.

[@rayjones9066]

@@eyeLikeCarrots Hear Hear! Well said :) I took one look at Jacob's Ladder - then drove to the top. I took another look downwards and thought 'no way' :D Cycling is for King of The Mountain types only. The only places on St Helena that are flat? The sea (sometimes) - and the Runway (and even that has a gentle slope end-end) :D

[@TheGrmany69]

In my opinion, the problem of the economy is the same of the Feroe Islands in Denmark, they lack the infrastructure to sustain internet connection; that was the salvation of Malta, tourism and a fiscal paradise for online businesses. It's also the same problem we have here in Venezuela, young people go out of towns in search for quality job (also the nasty corruption and bad economy policies don't help at all) and also happens in the towns of Spain, Italy and so on. It's a problem of urban planning, if developed countries where in that sense more decentralised like USA the problem wouldn't be so accentuated.

[@carvercapitalequitypartner122]

It's so easy and popular to criticize the US but there is a lot to learn from the innovation and industry and systems of the Americans.

[@jimmy59ca2001]

i am very sorry to hear that the fisherman committed suicide, he was very practical and you could tell he really loved the island, RIP

[@1ukjunglednbraver]

he was speaking true words..he loved his island ...rip

[@Mark13091961]

Tragic - and on the cusp of a new future for the islanders. Sad

[@thra5herxb12s]

And did the British taxpayer want their taxes spent on this when the UK mainland is in such a state. This new airport didnt even get mentioned on the TV news, we knew bugger all about it. But now some of us know, we truly hope that this brings good things to the island and its people.

[@moodyfan4ever]

Then he was not happy there anymore??? , is there mental help for people there if they struggle???????

[@mesoanto1031]

He was an isolationist. Hey don't he have a daughter?? ⚠️Warning to everyone ⚠️ If you committed suicide don't expect salvation.

[@bakerstreet101]

There are a surprising number of cars! How often is petrol delivered?

[@ElleNullVoid]

I am going to St Helena in January 2016 - Really cannot wait. Trip of a lifetime.

[@thermaldetinatorsonly8857]

Wow. Who cares?

[@aboodsmith3355]

hahahahaha

[@DJ_afroASH]

Elle Louise how was it

[@carvercapitalequitypartner122]

- Did you go?

[@meenanaicker8999]

Hi Eleanor. Hoping that you went to the island.. What was your experience like.?

[@stephenburgess5109]

The first flight was a emergency flight to South Africa so Airport can literally be a life saver.

[@vanessalodewyk1324]

My belated grandfather is from Saint Helena and i want to go and visit his birth place.

[@DeonAllers]

Was he South African?

[@Alex-fx5es]

I want to visit the house where Napoleon lived his final years

[@markmitchell450]

Still French owned too

[@eruetifoster5162]

They've got the same problems people have in small towns everywhere. Kids moving away,big business taking over, not enough income etc etc...

[@ronclark9724]

Precisely. The youth today want to live in cities, not live on the farm or be fishermen...

[@yasminbarry7941]

@Sean Greenhalgh Yes, you might like that for a little while.

[@colindasilva2230]

great Video, i love to go there, i am from the Falklands so similar in away and Gib

[@brandonvillatuya9539]

I feel like hear a million different accents in their voices

[@Xantec]

its a cross between Australian and South African

[@pereiraplaza222]

@@Xantec And Paraguayan

[@deemor5013]

Looks lovely! I'd love to go there.

[@Foldisfitch]

Then I suggest doing that while you still can...as soon as it's 'developed' it'll be just another money making plastic resort

[@somnathde8680]

Excellent documentary.

[@dmdm8018]

I am sorry also about the fisherman He had honest and practical outlook. RIP I wonder now that the airport is built, how has it changed. Knowing humans, I hope it’s for the better of all the locals benefitting positively.

[@jivenfields]

If sthelenians have such a hard life can’t imagine then how the future may look like for Tristanians 🇹🇦

[@1984isHereNow]

For decades Ive wanted to visit St Helena, Tristan and Pitcairn. I was so excited that the runway might open this to me butI have to fly from London to Cape Town to fly to SH and then the same on the way back. Hopefully they will get direct flights from the UK one day. This was 2015 I wonder if Melaniw went to the Falklands or remained on Tristan. Interestingly it appears to have suffered similar issues to Pitcairn.

[@nwofoe2866]

so you expect that a 747 or similar jumbo jet will land at St. Helena's airport?

[@1984isHereNow]

@@nwofoe2866 Do I ?

[@armandos.gsalesgames7896]

ME DEU UMA GRANDE VONTADE DE CONHECER ESTE LUGARZINHO!

[@ErskineSam]

I'm keen to visit.. Even completely relocate to this Island as the idyllic environment intrigues me and I want to be a part of it. I however am a tad afraid here as an Islander kills himself at the end of the documentary. What is the state of Mental Help to deal with the strain of living on an Island so cut off from mainland?

[@jonniemaemiddletonlotte6747]

Intriguing and exciting to me.

[@coucou3639]

Not a bad little doc - St Helena seems like an interesting place. I don't think the airport will make much difference especially as they have discovered there is a strong cross wind on the runway which makes it very difficult to land! Very sad about Otto who took his own life. Strange because he seemed like a very positive, proactive man who was proud of his heritage and wanted the best for his island.

[@dhirendrabahadurbista]

Strange World,really

[@Mr91495osh]

Paradise

[@gavinlamborghini783]

i was born there.left when I was 12 .i lived in deadwood and Longwood.i went back in 1989 but left in 1992 .worked in Ascension Island till 1994.came to Florida and lived there till 2002 then i moved to new your city...the girls here love my accent....this Airport is the brits first steps to their new milatary base in the south Atlantic Ocean...

[@thra5herxb12s]

New military base. Of course it makes sense now why the British taxpayer has to fund this place.

[@eruetifoster5162]

what use is a military base out there unless the Brits suspect someone is going to invade it like the Argentinians did the Falkland islands.

[@SunRabbit]

+Gavin Lamborghini Interesting because I've also lived all over the globe myself including NYC in the Village. I've emigrated 8 times and always made out like a bandit. My upcoming 9th emigration will be from western Germany to Czech Republic where I've lived once already and had great success there. You could say I'm a bit "unusual" as I'm sure you are yourself.

[@mickfunny4185]

Sun Rabbit what is your nationality?

[@SunRabbit]

100% Czech!

[@ash3rr]

Their accent is so interesting.

[@VoidUnderTheSun]

+ash3rr It seems faintly South African.

[@ash3rr]

UnderTheSun One or two of them do, but I wonder if it's because of their exposure to working in SA. Most of the others reminded me of New Zealanders / Australians.

[@VoidUnderTheSun]

ash3rr Weird how that twang developed all along the string of southern British colonies...

[@hannahelvete]

Just sounds South African to me

[@davewalker9899]

RIP AVICII some of them but others have a different accent

[@sithlordhibiscus9936]

The price of this serene lifestyle is the acceptance of fewer choices in every matter of daily living, and climatical hardships and shortage of supplies. An airport won't help with the inherent problem of healthcare and social services that are associated with isolated places in general. There is no plane that can get you to Cape Town in time to save you if you're having a heart attack. There is no way one airport will increase recidivism and healthy business growth, either. The price of living will only rise, because of tourism.

[@stephenalfonso7423]

Change is gradual. An airport is the beginning of many things to come. Maybe next thing, they’ll build a decent hospital. And if people can fly for only a few hour to the island, more expatriates can move about easily

[@CWM-1606]

But interestingly, in such places people generally live very healthy lives....bef nature has a way of balancing 😊

[@marionbotman5177]

How awesome to see people who look like my Mum and me and sound like my Mum!! Barbara Sylvia (Wildschut) nee May - daughter to Stanley and Maud May (nee Thomas)

[@nichtsisttieferalsunserstaat]

as a retired police-officer, it looks like paradise to me.

[@plasmasun]

There is a banana in your nose.

[@nichtsisttieferalsunserstaat]

@@plasmasun i am already tested for monkeypox

[@forestpkguy]

I want to live here

[@aboodsmith3355]

ye will be speaking like them man fun stay where ye are

[@yasminbarry7941]

No. You don't want to live there.

[@DalePearl]

Wish I could move there.

[@bonzaiboesie]

We visited July 2014 .. moving there TODAY if I get the chance ....

[@gavinlamborghini783]

Dale Pearl We wish you would move here .we need to boost our population.you will like it here , it's a little quite though and if you are british it will be easy because we are british..come visit.

[@gavinlamborghini783]

Dale Pearl We wish you would move here .we need to boost our population.you will like it here , it's a little quite though and if you are british it will be easy because we are british..come visit.

[@sudonim8862]

whats to do on st helena???? looks nice and were you born there yourself?

[@comfywomfy]

I'm in mate. Whats the job situation like?

[@bowenzhou5264]

S.A. is the island's closest regular link , the RMS sails to and from Cape Town

[@yasminbarry7941]

Hopefully, this beautiful people will be able to establish quality tourism, and to create a much more comfortable lifestyle, which would allow them to stay on their island.

[@walkaboutal4992]

The island does have both commercial development and military power projection potential. Once the airport becomes a reality, real estate will become a high value commodity.

[@colindasilva2230]

loving Ivy, she rocks

[@deemonteeth4544]

OluwaJack brought me here. Thanks for the education.

[@Againstdhawa]

the accent more south african

[@LB_die_Kaapie]

Theafricanlakekayak no shit. they have very strong ties with south africa. so many south Africans come from St Helena too.

[@maxwellfreeman4319]

my great granny was from St Helena moved to South Africa over 100yrs ago when she was 14yrs old

[@Bozewani]

he sound Cape Town South Africa's legislative capital and capital of the Western Cape Province

[@marksmith6372]

If you are a British citizen and want. Financial help from the British government you are last in the queue the UK government gives billions of pounds of foreign aid aid to the EU the richest continent in the world they can't wait to stop aid to St Helena because your British

[@halfstep44]

How big will the planes even be? I feel like St Helena will still be pretty isolated, just maybe a little less isolated

[@angelaelliott8442]

halfstep44

[@aviationdylan3353]

halfstep44 erj 190 and 737 and some others I don’t remember

[@marcusdamberger]

South Africa's Airlink will be flying once a week with a Embraer E190 with about 78 passengers due to weight limits to account for possible wind shear conditions. The runway can accommodate 737's, but the weight of the aircraft makes it harder to deal with shifting winds from the southbound direction. Larger aircraft have to approach from the southbound direction because of runway length and prevailing winds, (northbound approach with a 737 wound not leave enough runway with a tailwind, smaller aircraft still have enough runway left) however that's the direction wind shear can happen. The northbound direction is much easier but only usable by lighter aircraft. C-130's have landed on the runway too.

[@miraclefifita650]

Harry and Megan can make make this place great again , Megan will blend in really well , and Harry he finely gets a Principality , 💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@evelina.amazonAtGmail]

Prince Harry of St Helena?

[@miraclefifita650]

@@evelina.amazonAtGmail and it's close to Africa , with airport ,Harry will look cool in Napoleon Boots lol ♥️♥️

[@nerosprig]

The accent sounds similar to ours in Bermuda.

[@gaur1269]

So Bermudians don't sound similar to Caribbean people?

[@thra5herxb12s]

This sounds like a South African accent to my ears, but a South African might recognise the accent as coming from st Helena and not anywhere on mainland South Africa.

[@davewalker9899]

DEAN WATERS it’s a mix I can hear New Zealand, South African and a hint of English

[@w10021]

just got backto US from Stanley in the Falklands

[@virginiafry9854]

Very interesting accent - a mixture of Dutch (mainly Afrikaans), British and slight German.

[@moniquedefranca5759]

Very much South African accent.

[@mulalo9564]

True the fisherman has an Afrikaans accent

[@carolinedarocha9994]

The airport is successfull, it will create more jobs and opportunities. There are flights every Weekend from Jhb SA, i think its a mindset thing, people seem very negative they are set in the ways, but have so much to work with. Farming. Water recycle plant. Tourism

[@Paulohlsson7]

Hello

[@petermallia558]

The end is so sad, and he seemed so upbeat about working hard for the future for himself and his family and the success of the island, what happened to make him make that decision to take the ultimate journey?

[@tommyrottweiler9962]

Centalina...

[@sithlordhibiscus9936]

Closed and/or isolated places/groups tend to have higher rates of abuse but honestly, how abuse is handled by social services departments on crowded, large places isn't better in many cases. It may be worse, even. At least on St. Helena you can't run from people you know if you do something. You always have to see them and live with the shame.

[@mesoanto1031]

Here are some ways to make money on the island. 1. Stock investment in British companies via the Internet whether it's day trading, swing trade and long term trading. 2. Grow and sell your own food. 3. Domesticate ground birds for food (harvest/release). 4. Tourist guide. 5. Catch and can fishes then export them. 6. Open kiosk in the airport to cater for Tourist sell souvenirs, T-shirt, paintings, novelty items from Napoleon's home. 7.taxi service 8. Delivery service 9. Open restaurant with food native to St Helena. And yes use those native birds🍗

[@Cochise954]

What's killing them it the transport of good. Their airport can't take commercial planes because it's too dangerous.

[@TheGramophoneGirl]

Hotel and guest houses?

[@evelina.amazonAtGmail]

All great ideas and at some point business minded ppl will move to the island and do just that! The locals obviously can't even grow their own food. Very strange. It's probably the same reason as in South Africa. The communist government there takes farm land from white farmers to give to black ppl to farm but they just let the land sit. There will come a time in SA when all the blacks, including the crazy commie government, are starving and will greatly appreciate the white farmers start farming and feeding the blacks again!!! Just wait and see!

[@rayjones9066]

Wonder how the Saints have managed to live at all for hundreds of years without some genius telling them to grow their own food? The lazy buggers were obviously too busy playing the Markets via carrier pidgeon and letters on the Mail Ship to consider something relevant, like eating.

[@geneybaby]

they didn't want the airport but complained the prices were too high getting brought in by boat?

[@verilyhumane6056]

Life is still in the early 1900 on this island. I would love to live on this island.

[@jackmorgan1677]

No you wouldn't because you don't know what's under the surface...

[@markbeale7390]

@@jackmorgan1677 Exactly.

[@melvyncox3361]

I feel so sorry for the fisherman who took his life.....Very sad.

[@shoutoutclub6694]

MR GREENWOOD MISSING U AT PRINCe ANDREW !!!

[@jonathanlovejoy1984]

one solution would be to also construct an air strip on Tristan de Cuna and work to make the two islands self sustaining with tourism and fishing rights.

[@jonathanlovejoy1984]

@real85er would there not be room for an airstrip accommodating a short landing and take off plane such as a Dash 7 or Twin Otter on either inaccessible Island or Nightingale island if there is no room on Tristan it's self?........i presume that you would benefit from facilities for medifac somewhere on the three islands not to mention low capacity air taxi to St Helena and Ascension island.

[@jonathanlovejoy1984]

@real85er i just see the place as in desperate need of an airstrip a STOL airstrip none the less that could put the Falklands and St Helena with in reach, South Georgia too could use an airstrip, maybe one that is similar to Lukla airport in Nepal that can only handle, twin otters and 20 seat Dorniers but none the less with drop tanks have the range to reach St Helena......Lukla airport runway is on a steep slope which means that it needs less space for landing and take off.....i note that Edinburgh of the seven seas is on a slope too.......perhaps such an airstrip would be possible next to the village and on area that is only ever fenced off for flights?.......maybe take a look here on youtube for lukla airport or it's even smaller sister airport at Tempoche, a really high altitude grass airstrip that can only accommodate a five seat Pilatus. i am sure that there must be a way for the folk on Tristan to have access to better medical cover, there are planes that can la.nd and take off on the shortest of strips i mean look at the UKs two new aircraft carriers where they don't even have 300 meters of runway....................from what i know about Tristan it is a wonderful place but it looks like it could use a larger sheltered harbour where ships can pull in and an airstrip, even if they have to share it with the livestock.

[@jonathanlovejoy1984]

@real85er i understand but it would also facilitate more private flights down the central Atlantic route to the Falklands and with it it would give more business to Tristan and the other stop offs such as St Helena, Ascension island and South Georgia. also the planes of the British Antarctic survey return to England for the duration of the Antarctic winter each year and twin otters do not have much of a distance to them so they must get home via the Americas, Greenland and Iceland at present.

[@anthonyjames4648]

Love the accent

[@davidhussell8581]

As I see it, it is the island's extreme isolation that is the major problem. If the airport brings tourists, which is far from guaranteed, it will only create low income opportunities.

[@ronielmasalunga9950]

Wish I can move there 😊

[@jimmy59ca2001]

the fisherman that was speaking should be given a leadership role by the governmenat as he has practical knowledge and loves his island

[@suppress6045]

I believe we'd all agree, definitely a wise man right up until the moment of taking his own life. May his soul forever rest in peace

[@wakaka2waka]

+SkyRealm Studio He took his own life???

[@suppress6045]

@wakaka2waka yes, unfortunately. It's at the very end of the video, minute 22:46

[@isunlloaoll]

+SkyRealm Studio wow... I'm speechless...

[@dankodasic2203]

I love BBC documentary.

[@aboodsmith3355]

do you love me ?

[@regispotasio4657]

Amei esse lugar

[@ZiaurRAHMAN-sz8xo]

Brother I want to go to the country of St. Helena can I get a work visa

[@lou8809]

My Grandmothers birth place.

[@jonathanlovejoy1984]

i have never been there but i have Afection for the island and it's people and wish them the very best............there is an island in Peru on lake Titicaca there the owners of their island, the island of Amantani [look it up here on youtube] have a very novel way of dealing with tourists......they have a rota and most people on the island on the rota........they each take turns at hosting tourists in their houses in their villages of their island, they feed them good local food that they have grown and they have a tourist shop full of the Lama wool hats, scarves jumpers and bags that the islanders have made..........they are not multi millionaires who drive Ferraris and Lamborginis but equally they are not in poverty..........in addition with St Helena you could add value to the fist that you catch if you can increase tourism enough that it could support several families opening fish restaurants in Georgetown and on some very picturesque spots around the island.............in addition, on a trip to Cuba i met some Norwegians who had bought a hull and rebuilt a triple mast and they were using it to run sunset cruises as a sailing gin palace out of Havana, maybe such an idea can be done but on a smaller scale in Georgetown............in addition i think that you should trade more with Tristan De Cuna and the Falklands, you all have things to help each other with.

[@groveavenue]

Good camera.

[@spukduk5632]

So if the ship doesn't carry petrol, what does?

[@gavinlamborghini783]

Tu Chenz we charter a special tanker every few months to bring petrol and diesel to full the tank farms on the island..its safer than putting it on a ship with lots of passengers.

[@DarthLink1986]

I just saw another video about this island and they were talking about how the airport really is a failure because of windsheer the airport is for all intents and purposes useless for larger passenger planes

[@aughalough1]

The island was discovered in May 21st 1502 the feast day of St. Helena by João da Nova, a Spanish navigator in the service of Portugal. Helena the mother of Roman emperor Constantine. He was also the first emperor to adhere to Christianity and stopped the persecution of Christian Catholicism. Constantine converted to Catholicism on his deathbed in 337.

[@abrildearaujo6218]

I wanna be in St. helana, I'm from timor leste 🇹🇱 Any one can help me to be in St Helena

[@roberthansen2008]

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous has a line and it says something to the effect no st. Helena for me. I think that's in chapter 1 Bill's story if I'm not mistaken.

[@macmartins9428]

The people are so attached to their island and are not confident about what the airport will bring.

[@jimmy59ca2001]

what kind of dialect was the fisherman speaking to the child on the boat

[@deannabircher2030]

+Jim Church that's how we talk lol

[@noleenjoshua4724]

South African

[@andrearossi8293]

Saint Helena passport has any difference from the Uk one?

[@Vempsterful]

I think the British used that island in the Falkland War to create was is known as the longest bomb run in human history. On the idea of an Airport I think it's a great idea.

[@ZemplinTemplar]

+Nathan Warrington That was Ascension Island, with the airbase.

[@Vempsterful]

ZemplinTemplar Thanks !

[@ronclark9724]

How can the British use bombers from a island that doesn't have a airport during 1982? They are just opening their first airport...

[@rayjones9066]

@@ronclark9724 Ron, Shhhh. don't let on how sneaky us Brits really are eh? Next thing you know they'll realise it was us first on the moon . . . . and giving the Colonials credit for it as an apology for giving them a brand new country to occupy. Mum's the Word eh?

[@Mr91495osh]

It’s a nine hour airplane ride from London. So, it’s still isolated.

[@gardensofthegods]

Wow terribly depressing and Trevor Thomas the fisherman committed suicide... truly so sad and tragic..why ? Yes food start to become more expensive and so did housing... that's pretty bad... but I heard in another vid that due to the high winds the airport is NOT a success.. and they think they will only be able to get three or four thousand people there by plane. This is very depressing vid.. I really thought St Helena had its act together more than this.. for some reason I thought it would be like a combination of Nova Scotia and one of the Caribbean islands. There's got to be a way to help this island financially so that they can be independent without making their food and other necessities become more expensive... this is sad and has to be scary for these people

[@dadt8009]

If Britain doesn't support St Helena, eventually it could be deserted. Then another country will come and take it (Argentina, Brazil, Russia, or China for e.g.). Forty million pounds a year is probably about the same order of magnitude as maintaining a military presence in an otherwise uninhabited remote island. That's really the interest for London in St Helena - geopolitics and territorial.

[@antonejohnson8825]

The Fault of A Son Who Sunrise Twice even Thrice A Westward *

[@craigfield6497]

Deliverance comes to mind.

[@sloppynyuszi]

Why do people want to live there? I grew up in a little village and you can’t fart without everyone knowing about it. Being so isolated, looks like food is even more expensive, and hospitals seem very lacking. I love nature and sometimes it’s good to get away from it all, but I think I could only cope for a couple of months before my itch to the next place is.

[@yasminbarry7941]

@Sloppy Toons: You are being realistic. The people who say they want to go live there have no idea what they are talking about.

[@jivenfields]

Indeed, people who “wish” to live in such a place don’t know what they are asking, not even in dreams

[@rayjones9066]

Hey Geezer, nice idea, but is it your 'itch' that makes you nervous of the medical care? :D

[@CWM-1606]

​@@rayjones9066😂

[@lmfd7373]

So are they related to each other if no one was ever able to really get there 🤔

[@nealogorman1810]

How does the petrol get there then??

[@jackmckenna8410]

Airports do bring inequality and widening wealth gaps. Saw it in Hawaii first hand. Locals always get fucked as price for everything rises and jobs become shit service.

[@bigggy86]

21:51 thats my brother gary mercury

[@mickfunny4185]

David Harris he looks on the fat side tbh

[@yustinj.6792]

Mick Funny Savage

[@cmp3315]

nice

[@Kamofy]

So they built the airport and after completion they realized that the extreme wind sheer and length of runway renders it useless. Brilliant 😂

[@Malisti04]

yep. all the while building they did not realise it.......after construction the go Ooooops!

[@ALong-fo5so]

It's not useless. Airlink from S Africa has found a plane which copes with the wind sheer and the tail wind

[@bridgetthompson2068]

@@ALong-fo5so it is so expensive to use this flight though. I'm not sure that the islanders will be able to afford to use it to get off the island and not many visitors will want to pay the high fares.

[@jeremylinah8078]

Ilove the easy go life thee corona isupose

[@yasminbarry7941]

@@bridgetthompson2068 Apparently, it's also a long flight, 6 hours and 15 minutes....... In a small plane. Few people will be willing to do that, in my opinion. But hopefully, the Saints will be able to capitalize on this new link with the rest of the world.

[@jimmy59ca2001]

i am from canada and searched my history and found that we came from barbados as the royal navy had a base there prob same history as the saints

[@theyoungHaynes]

i live in barbados and we have louis vuitton here so re think

[@jimmy59ca2001]

I don't understand what you mean, it seems my family was in the british navy and migrated to Philadelphia and then to Canada, seems to be a headstone at a church dated in 1700s with my family name and marriage records

[@ricktimmons458]

gardens for food? green houses? solar cells? wind turbines?

[@rayjones9066]

Avocados? wasp bites? price of nuclear fuel? Laptops?

[@dombertrandimperadordobras7072]

Saint Helena was discovered by the Portugal and not by Britain,

[@jamesflower9007]

Relevance?

[@dombertrandimperadordobras7072]

I don't know , what fuck you mean by that

[@ablair37]

same for many countries the brits got there second and either bought or stole them

[@rayjones9066]

@@ablair37 Very successfully in either case don't you think? Still, thankfully. like Portugal, we're not a flea-bitten non-entity clinging onto the side of Europe? When's Prexit happening - do you know? Maybe the Dom does :D

[@ineffablebeing4276]

Any way I can live there?

[@Malisti04]

take me with you

[@mattmarriott6929]

the fisherman didn't commit suicide, he was murdered for speaking the truth

Youre right. The Brit spy murdered him because he wanted independent.

[@KneeoGeeo]

Matt Marriott lol. Course they did.

[@moniquedefranca5759]

What dis he say?

[@drstone1167]

✝️Saint Malachy was born in 1094 at Armagh, Irelandand died on November 2, 1148. St. Malachy was canonized in 1190 by Pope Clement III. This was the first papal canonization of an Irish saint. The source of the prophecy attributed to him is still up for debate, but the following is how it is usually related: While in Rome in 1139 St. Malachy received a vision showing him all the Popes from his day to the end of time. He wrote poetic descriptions of each of the pontiffs and presented the complete manuscript to Pope Innocent II, but the prophecies were forgotten in the Vatican until 1590. These mottoes in the prophecies usually refer to a family name, birthplace, a coat-of-arms, or an office held before election to the papacy. For example, Pope Pius II, who was Pope for just 26 days in 1503, was prophesied by St. Malachy as “De Parvo Homine,” which means ‘from a little man.’ His family name was Piccolomini, Italian for “little man.” Also, St. Malachy sometimed use the Pope’s personal history to make a motto. Pope Clement XIII (1758), who had connections with the government of the Italian state of Umbria and whose emblem was a rose, was called by Malachy ‘Rosa Umbriae,’ the “Rose of Umbria.” According to the St. Malachy prophecies, Pope Francis is the last Pope. ✝️ That doesn’t surprise me in the current time we now live. Huge part of the USA and World is totally morally bankrupt and our Catholic Church ⛪️ Is Infiltrated by Satan 👹 with corrupt Cardinals, bishops and priests. Pray 🙏 and stay in the “State of Grace” and fear not Gods second coming to judge the living and the dead. Remember nobody knows the exact day or time except God the Father in Heaven.

[@nopretribrapture2318]

LIFE IS A MASS EXODUS! !! WITH ITS TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS 😧💔

[@Mr91495osh]

The Britain has plenty of small towns where people can live away from cities yet still have health and dental care.

[@eunicearubia2156]

who told you British have dental problems

[@Mr91495osh]

@@eunicearubia2156 I didn’t imply they did.

[@Thepuggleparty]

Is there internet there?

[@ronclark9724]

No high speed internet you see worldwide.

[@stonew1927]

I live on the most isolated archipelago in the world, Hawaii. I live on the Big Island. We have two airports, internet, and everything you could ever want on the mainland shipped here. Walmart, Target, Safeway, we got it. Might as well be anywhere USA. Fact is, with the airport life on that island will change forever. Maybe there is no option. Maybe without the airport the local people would eventually all leave or die out. So the only alternative is a different kind of dying out of local ways in favor of mass culture and development, and inequality. I feel for these people and their predicament. There's practically nowhere else left in the world where one can truly escape the sickness of modern day societies.

[@daryg352]

Very isolation 🤔🤔🤔

[@NicolasFourure]

... cette histoire ne me laisse pas insensible. Un trait d'union vient d'être tracé. Il faut en faire une force malgré tout.

[@josequenelmo]

i,m from Equatorial Guinea i would like to visit st Helen but i was looking in internet, i cant find the name of the Airport. and i dont really know how to contact with hotels,airlines companies. and how is the prices. please some1 help me with that. thnk yu

[@andrewwalborn1760]

According to Wikipedia, the flights aren't scheduled to start until May 2016, and the only options are Comair from Johannesburg, and TUIfly from London with a stop in Banjul.

[@andrewwalborn1760]

Oh and the airport is going to be called Saint Helena Airport, and it's three letter code is HLE.

[@josequenelmo]

+Andrew Walborn thank you very much that helped me a lot

[@gaur1269]

Isn't your country an oppressive dictatorship?

[@gardensofthegods]

8:42... it sounds like she can't make her son's wedding because the armrest broke down ? Is she talking about a ship ?

[@Tigzy3]

RMS, name of the ship

[@Justinian21c]

RMS stands for Royal Mail Ship, which was the prefix for ships contracted to carry British mail. She was referring to RMS St Helena specifically.

[@TheFarmanimalfriend]

The lack of nasty animals and lots of fresh clean air , with no pollution is attractive to me. It's dollars well spent that lead to tourist $$$. Do they have the Internet? If not, that should be a #1 priority. It would be a major attraction to be able to live off the grid, but still be able to interact with humans.