I moved to a South Carolina island where my neighborhood is "car-free"
www.businessinsider.com
A 62-year-old resident of Haig Point on Daufuskie Island says it's like living 200 years in the past and has improved his work-life balance.
  • @[email protected]English
    19•1 year ago

    I work remotely as the president of an investment-accounting company. Internet connection is super important for me. I have to be on calls and frequently use 50 terabytes of cloud storage.

    Why on earth does an investment company need 50 TB of cloud storage?

    • @nbafantestEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      There is no way e frequently uses 50TB

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
      2•1 year ago

      Sounds like an ex employee using it as a remote plex/jellyfin drive 😳

      I have no idea how an accounting agency can consume 50TB of cloud storage… maybe 50k customers with a 1GB excel each? Would a spreadsheet that big even open?

      • @[email protected]English
        0•1 year ago

        I’ve worked with dozens of large financial firms, and even the largest databases don’t come close to this size. There is either some kind of insane media storage happening or the guy doesn’t know the difference between a GB and TB.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•1 year ago

          I work in science computing and 50 TB is more than some bioinformatics work uses. There’s no way the person in the article actually uses that much.

          • KrisNDEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Yeah, I’m thinking the drive storage might be 50TB because they got ripped off and he doesn’t realize the actual size of the files.

  • @robocallEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    This place sounds great for certain people. If you like golf, don’t mind instacart being your primary source for groceries, possibly owning a car on the mainland, and are able to afford this lifestyle.

    The article didn’t mention how long the ferry ride takes or if it runs 24/7. I can’t imagine the ferry being busy at 3am but I could imagine possibilities when people want to get off the island at that hour.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      They said it’s 30 minutes. So not too bad. I’ve lived on a similar island elsewhere and you just don’t leave the island much unless you want to spend the whole day doing things on the mainland.

  • @RBWellsEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    An island like this just sounds like a gated community with a moat though. No cars, but no grocery to walk to, nothing you need is there, just golf and houses.

    Sure I want my city walkable, with better (it’s way below adequate) public transportation but I want to be able to walk to work (I can), to the grocery (I can) to the doctor or dentist (I can) to my kids’ schools (cannot) and to shops, restaurants, parks (mostly cannot). In the city - a living city with jobs and things to do!

    I don’t understand living on an island that is just a house farm like any other suburb here, disconnected from everything.

  • IzzyEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    This is the dream. I wish I could afford to live in such a place.