There's a certain irony in reading about the mega rich who buy their own private fantasy islands...in the same week that we read about the epic failures of the Rio+20 Earth Summit and the ongoing Euro debt crisis: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jun/22/larry-ellison-private-island-rich
"As Larry Ellison buys the Hawaiian island Lania for around half a
billion dollars, the Guardian Datablog takes a look at the elite club to which he
will now belong: very rich people with their own private islands.
Billionaire businessmen dominate the list, while actors Johnny Depp and
Mel Gibson are among the more familiar names." [The Guardian]
Personally, I always thought there was something a bit creepy about Fantasy Island...and from my own limited experience of ownership, I think it might be better to have access to things rather than ownership of them....it may be a cliché but it's often true that possessions end up owning you, contrary to the other way around...
A quote from the Guardian datablog comments section: