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I would choose Bora Bora. I would be living in a home made tent from palm leaves, eating coconuts and most important not working for idiots. Every single isle far from civilization with nice weather would do.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Hope you don't mind me asking a question here, as someone currently living in Scotland, with an interest in the independence debate - You mentioned in a previous post that your rig had all been sent home at short notice for some hush-hush reason? Can you clarify what that was all about because it seems that it stoked a load of rumours about a huge new oil reserve being discovered in the Clair field?
My gut feeling is that it's nonsense, but I'd really value the opinion of someone actually involved in the business directly.
Andy B
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It wasn't my rig that was demobbed.
It turns out that there was a discovery, it was announced a week later in the papers. But it was pretty much a non-event and the companies involved share prices barely fluttered.
All the talk about the Clair field is down to people with short memories. I remember when the Clair was first built, that it was always stated to be a multi-phase field development plan. That field is simply moving into the 2nd development phase, and suspect the next one will be in about 10 years.
West of Shetlands has lots of potential, but it is very hard to operate, heavy crudes, deep water (past the ridge) and harsh environment, the issue is cost. It doesn't matter how much oil is left, cost is the governing factor. North Sea is still declining at a rate quicker than it is being discovered/exploited.
If you take my employer, in the North Sea we are recognized as being 'the' best in class. We have the lowest lifting cost/barrel and highest uptime efficiencies and generating large cash flow, yet the parent company are potentially looking at disposing off us to concentrate on US growth. We are just waiting to hear, but it is very quiet, and it doesn't just effect us, but ALL their international assets including Egypt/Oz/Canada. Jana Partners bought a $1B stake in July and are demanding a split/spin-off of the 'international assets'
Add to this that, the industry is resource constrained, you cannot get competent experienced teams for either offshore or engineering, everyone is moving overseas. this means to get people you need to pay and this puts costs up massively. Companies will then withdraw investment and go and spend their money in more profitable regions.
I keep hearing the 'yes' group saying 'we can do this, look at Ireland/Norway/Iceland/Sweden etc.etc.' and yes they have done it, but cost of living is frightening and these countries went through decades of pain.
You then have to look at international markets / fighting Europe / The rise of the East. To stand and compete against this you need to have clout, UK has clout, Scotland on its own doesn't.
There is too much from the heart and not from the head going on. It is possible to still be a proud patriotic Scotsman and still be a part of a union.
At the end of the day though, that is just my personal opinion.
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What you've just explained there is more concise than anything I've heard from the Yes/No campaigns.
This is the trouble with democracy sometimes - ignorance still has a vote.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to reply Dave. These kind of details have been sadly lacking in the whole debate.
I'm not the kind of person who signs up to anything based on the evangelical preaching's of single-issue organisations, especially when they are so far from the concensus view. Your information is worth it's weight in gold to me, thanks again!
Andy B
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My twitter has just started to get a few Yes voters asking for a retweet to a story saying that the discovery of massive new oil reserves is being suppressed by the media.
People find it easy to believe that they are lied to by anyone in a position of authority these days, the media, the government.
Why the Scots expect their own government to be any different is beyond me, it seems that they just want to be lied to and manipulated by Scottish people, except that it isn't just Scottish people who live in Scotland so all they'll end up with is a different set of rich, lying, manipulators in charge.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The moon. Total freedom if you are able to sustain your own food and water, and if needed the air. Otherwise there is always Mars as well
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I would like to live in Cuba, and my job would be to lie in a hammock all day whilst Pedro and Ernesto (My employees) rented Jet Ski's to tourists.
(I know the apostrophe is wrong but it looks horrible without it).
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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You may consider Scotland... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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That would mean moving abroad if the polls are anything to go by.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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In a failed state, if the economics are anything to go by.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Patagonia?
It's a bit ... "windy", but they got the oil, they got amazing peaks with snow all year, as child-friendlyness of latin american countries (which is to say: great). Kirchnerism and Peronism certainly are bizarre, but have little impact on wifal drivability and similar matters.
Not sure about the oil industry working conditions (but then, I donät even know if "4/4 rotation" means you'll be caught in a 4x4 roundhouse swing when your shift starts, just as warm up).
Also, distances *are* big, not sure if you get snowy peaks and mother earth leaks are close enough for you, distances between places are usually measured in days.
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Well if you can cope with another language (and there's lots of support for learning it if you can) then the answer is southern Germany! Dunno about oil/gas industry so that could be a deal breaker but wouldn't be surprised if Munich had work somehow related to that. Ticks all the other boxes nicely!
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Rockall[^]
Is that going to be British or Scottish in the invent of a yes vote, or will the Irish put in a claim again?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The answer is on the page:
The islet of Rockall is part of the UK: specifically it forms part of Scotland under the Island of Rockall Act 1972. No other state has disputed our claim to the islet
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Let me see....
Sh*te weather... Check
Oil&Gas... At the moment, Check
Education and low madness factor... Check (you must be warned, we are a bit weird  )
You should move to Norway
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He's from Scotland you have nothing on the weird they have up there
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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giving me the silent treatment are you!
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Shetland, by all accounts if the votes a yes they are going to apply for separation from Scotland and they have a goodly chunk of the oil, fits all the other boxes except the good summer but you from Aberdeen should be used to that
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Not a hope in hell I'm moving to Shetland! Permanent Force 10 wind blows across that place......
Don't you knock Aberdeen Summers, NE Scotland is surprising good due to geographical location in relation to the Grampian Mountains. Just look at the solar output chart for my roof: 4kwh system: http://monitoring.solaredge.com/solaredge-web/public?name=AberdeenDMA[^] Better than I thought it would be! 
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eye but it feels mighty chilly with that wind blowing up your Trossocks
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Romania
But I'd advise against actually living in Ploiești.
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Obviously Southern California, fer shur, dude. 
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other than the Skiing, I would say North Dakota, Winters though are horrible, 80mph winds and -30 normal daily high.
Might check out Colorado/Wyoming, Working on some oil industry, Summers are spectacular and lots of skiing to be had.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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