to paradise as it gets, right? this place i m staying was built by a guy who lived here two months out of the year. that place down there, probably the same. and two months a year. sad to say, i think it s unlikely that 50 years from now, anyone but the extraordinarily fortunate, the extraordinarily connected, and the extraordinarily rich will be able to even look at a vista like this. that is my personal theory. look, here i am. fully aware of the irony of the situation. it s like the whole preservation thing, preserved for who? save the reef, for who? save the beach, for whom? not you. probably.
regularly, for the rest of your life, i would like to spend three months out of the year in a hammock, looking out at the caribbean, in a secluded beach like this, you d have to do bad things to do this, right? james bond doesn t get this. james bond s a hustler. he gets this for a couple of days before he moves on to the next location. the guy who lives here is the bond villain, not james bond. ian fleming was much closer to blowfeld or hugo drax. those guys had lots of leisure time, sitting around in hammocks trying to figure out how to take over the [ muted ] world. a lot of downtime in world denomination. bond was a working class [ muted ]. that s what i ve been missing.
meaning, they don t let the locals or venders. they can keep people out. right. how many public access beaches are there in this area? just one. one. this one. no more. no more. no more beach. we have other beaches around, you know, we have like blue lagoon which is a private beach. and this is the only public one. you know. yeah, what happens if i mean, that would be sort of ridiculous if jamaicans can t go to the beach in jamaica. exactly. there are two sides to every story, of course, and the government, for its part, claims locals will still have access to their beach. we don t trust them. so we do not believe what they say. they want to get us off and like, six seven years, they don t do anything on it and close it off.
beach, here too it s in danger of redevelopment. and all this might disappear into the everchurning wheel of, well it is a public beach. it has been one of the best beach in jamaica. the beach was left to give the poor people of jamaica. so the government takes it over, supposedly to make it a public space, but they want to sell it to, what a hotel group? yeah, they want to make like a resort. there were a lot of islands on the caribbean where you re not allowed to own a beach. meaning all beaches are public. even if it s an exclusive hotel, at least theoretically, anybody can go. right. here it s different. here if you can buy a house and the beach, if you, you re a hotel, you can make it a private beach.
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