&gt; &quot;Ask HN: Which remote island can I escape to and live comfortably and cheaply?&quot;<p>This is really the fundamental problem in the modern world. The interconnectedness and shrinking of the globe in terms of distance means there is absolutely no where to escape to. Anywhere you would consider going there <i>will</i> be <i>some</i> government trying to dictate how you live your life and take a portion of your livelihood, and anywhere that you <i>might</i> avoid that you are usually risking that in conjunction with a humvee full of armed militants storming your home and murdering you.<p>Even a hundred years ago there were vast swathes of Australia, the central US, and South America generally uninhabited yet arable land, and the distances of the time made it infeasible for anyone to effectively police all of it. Today, not so much.<p>About the only hope left is setting up floating colonies in the Venusian atmosphere, but the problem is well before despondent settlers can migrate on a colony ship there will be governments establishing absolute control and monitoring of any habitable space someone could try to flee to.<p>It is like the &quot;right to be forgotten&quot; on Facebook - the right to be left alone was, fleetingly, a valuable thing that relatively few could enjoy, but in the same way the middle class shrinks the number of people capable of being in that state is also in dramatic decline.