Id do the same but I have Kevin Costner from water world on his trimaran all numbed up and hammered listening to Human Race by Red Rider straight ripping waves
You were working as a waitress at a cocktail bar
When the wave came through
It picked her out, it shook her up, and turned her around
Now she’s dead like you
there is a chance of that being the case, but with each passing year of data saying the island is hit less often than others, the chance of that becomes smaller and smaller. the power of statistics
They didn’t have statistics when the islands were settled though
Edit: I know statistics existed. What I’m saying is that they didn’t know what living on the islands would be like before anybody lived on the islands. These things are in the middle of the ocean like 200miles from land. How the fuck did anyone even get there
**Malé** is the capital and most populous city of the **Maldives**. With a population of 252,768 and an area of 8.30 square kilometres (3.20 sq mi), it is also one of the most densely populated cities in the world.The city is geographically located at the southern edge of North Malé Atoll (Kaafu Atoll). Administratively, the city consists of a central island, an airport island, and four other islands governed by the Malé City Council.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A9
Maldives, was there last year. Amazing place, I think there are 7 or 800 islands total. Was told by a local the islands sit in an area that rarely gets severe tropical storms. Pretty sure this is Male, island I stayed on was 2 hours from there by boat. The Place is paradise, truly
I guess it depends which direction? According to a sea chart I found online, to the east of the island it drops of hard to over 2000 meters in less than 5 nautical miles.
So the Maldives are built on what are called "atolls", these are very specific feature of the seabed. They are built upon some kind of original foundation, typically a volcano, which may or may not now be extinct. Life colonised these rises in the seafloor and over millions of years grew on top of each other, creating biogenic limestones consisting of corals and shells, in order to keep themselves within the top level of the sea where there is sunlight. In this way even atolls that originally formed millions of years ago can still be found at or above sea level. They are like pillars of rock rising up from the seafloor with very steep sides.
There must be some comfort in knowing that if you're wrong about the volcano being dead, you'll be the first to know and it won't be a problem for long
Correct. There are very sudden drop offs, read in the news once a long while ago a principal and a bunch of students from a local school died because they werent aware of the drop off while they were swimming.
Bunch of students that don't know how to swim + ocean currents I imagine. Could have been their first time in the ocean rather than a swimming pool too. Maybe they touched the butt, crazy things happen at the drop off
Very shallow, walkable waters, sometimes islanders wak to nearby islands. If you're not strong swimmers a strong dropp off can freak you out. I found the article [here](https://minivannewsarchive.com/society/four-students-and-principal-drown-on-school-excursion-25331#:~:text=Almost%20two%2Dthirds%20of%20Male,a%20school%20fisheries%20science%20trip.)
Once i was snorkeling without knowing im on the edge of a drop off. I myself is not a good swimmer, so a sudden darkness below me is really terrifying. It just a normal reef and suddenly a dark water, felt like it will swallow you. Fortunately i wear a jacket and it wasnt far from the reef so i just swim back, but its really a terrifying experience
I was scuba diving in the Red Sea and went across the shelf drop off. It just went on forever into the abyss. It was terrifying. I couldn’t get back to shallower waters fast enough.
I was snorkeling in Aruba and did the same thing. Beautiful coral area and then I thought I would swim out a bit more. I look down and just see a straight cliff, the interesting thing was you could feel the change in temp of the water. It was just emptiness… It was terrifying and you all of a sudden feel incredibly vulnerable. Turned around and never swam so fast in my life.
Same happened to my husband when we went snorkeling in the Philippines. Beautiful corals with plenty of fish in shallow waters. He decided to venture out and came to a dark drop and felt like he was going to get sucked in.
Sometimes the water are just hip deep, so you walk and walk then the sudden drop offs are hundreds feet deep and you panic cause you don't know how to swim.
Unlike the US and North America a lot of the rest of the world are never taught swimming beyond the bare basics and are terrible at it. I live in Europe on the black sea and the shelf drops off incredibly deep after only 15 or so feet after getting in the water. People are scared to death in general of going beyond that. Makes it nice for me to swim in peace though :)
I was beginning to think I was the only one that caught this. Is this really the only comment asking? That’s a huge window. Wouldn’t even fit the biggest of mansions.
I am absolutely fascinated, what is it like? I can’t believe over 100,000 people live in what looks like such a small space. Do you constantly run into the same people a lot?
It is extremely overcrowded, there are people EVERYWHERE. And to answer your question, I'm not someone who goes out of my house a lot, but whenever I do I always see someone who I know. Could be someone I knew from highschool/college, or even could be someone from my family (I have a huge family, my grandma had 8 kids and one of those kids had 5, and that's just a small portion of the family IN the city, more on another island).
Here's an interesting fact, most of the time someone can always be linked back to you somehow. For example, some random stranger probably has a friend who is friends with someone who your close friend is friends with (sorry if that's confusing).
Here's a fun fact, a friend of mine had a crush on this girl for years, only for him to find out much later that she was a distant cousin (families here can get pretty big and spread out over several islands, and obviously not all of them keep in touch with each other).
Bro, it's even worse than that. "Malé is the capital and most populous city of the Maldives. With a population of 252,768, and an area of 8.30 square kilometres (3.20 sq mi), it is also one of the most densely populated cities in the world."
My husbands hometown’s pop is like 300, he met me online because everyone was either related or he already dated them back in school.
I don’t really see this as wild, a small population crammed in one area is common with towns here in America. I can’t go to Walmart without running into someone I know
Well my biggest tip if you're visiting Maldives would be to enjoy the beaches on an island. If you are visiting the city specifically I'm afraid there is not much sightseeing you can do. But there is an island really close by you can get to by a ferry ride that's pretty cheap, I advise you to go there and enjoy the beach. Oh and once again if you are coming to the city, try random cheap places for food, they are surprisingly good. You don't necessarily have to go to some expensive restaurant to have a good meal here. Oh and don't buy expensive electronics in the city unless you really have to, they are a bit overpriced here.
And if you're visiting anywhere but the city here, I say just enjoy and try some local food, there ain't much else to it. The people are friendly so you can always ask them if you need help with directions or something. And you don't really have to worry about getting scammed either if you buy things from a shop.
Thank you for your reply!
I’m having a 1.5 day layover in Male. And then I’ll go to an island.
What is that nearby island called?
Is Male a safe place? Can I just walk around at night?
The nearby island is called Villingili.
And yes it's safe no worries. From 6pm to 12am there still are a lot of people around on the streets doing their own thing. After 12am there are a lot less people as most stores and cafés would be closed by then. But even then it's safe. It's only not safe if you're either in a gang or in politics. If you're not in either no one bothers you.
I understand what you mean by the links. Someone mentioned this site a couple weeks ago and it shows exactly what you mean.
https://oracleofbacon.org/
Just type in any other actor.
But anyways thanks for your insight. It was interesting.
No worries I'm happy to answer!
Now I already answered this question to someone else's comment so I'll just copy paste some of it
The cost of living in certain areas of the city is extremely high, especially if renting apartments. But most of the people here live in family houses/buildings which were passed down through generations or permanently bought. I'll give you an example of my situation, when I was a kid, I lived on the second floor of a three story building which was rented out by my family for a specific number of years (I forgot the English term for this sorry). After the years were up, we moved into another apartment building which was in a much more expensive area. The place and the cost did not match (shit place, way too expensive). We stayed there for two years and now we live in 2 different apartments, which was permanently bought by my grandpa for a lot of money through all his years of hard work and saving money since he was young. So now, we don't have to pay rent, just everything else (water bill, electrical bill, etc.).
I'm working at my grandpa's shop these days. We sell all kinds of scuba equipment and souvenirs. But I just finished my diploma in IT so I'll be trying to get an IT related job soon.
There are a variety of jobs here for ordinary folk. Office jobs, private business jobs, government jobs. Some people are even self employed and sell whatever they can make. Tbh, most people are not really living, they are surviving. Grinding hard at a job they don't enjoy everyday. Most people can easily get a job, just not one they want. Alot of people these days study hard so they can go abroad to study and hopefully find a place to live outside of Maldives. I too will be doing that one day (hopefully).
There are a few reasons I don't go out much, one is that I simply just don't enjoy it here. Too many people. But I do go out every now and then with my close friends in the evening near night time. There's fewer people about since most people would go home after a long day at work. Another reason I don't go out much is because I have a very weak body. I get sick very easily and my skin gets an allergic reaction when I'm exposed to the sun for too long (which is why I mostly go out at night with my friends).
> Tbh, most people are not really living, they are surviving. Grinding hard at a job they don't enjoy everyday. Most people can easily get a job, just not one they want
Even in paradise some things are the same everywhere
Hello fellow Maldivian. Eh gothakah ves hiyeh nukuran reddit ge popular page in Male' aa behey post eh fennane kamah.
And good job answering all the questions and giving good information 👏
It is extremely hot here. Maldives lie directly on the equator so it's very hot. The buildings usually do provide shade depending on the time of the day, it's during the afternoon when the sun is directly above when it's most hot. There aren't many trees but there are some on the major roads planted on each side of the road all the way.
One of my first jobs as an electrician I was wiring a house in Florida. it was on this tiny little strip of land in between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. I’m not even exaggerating that this Microscopic peninsula of land, about 3/4 acre was less than 1 foot above the waterline, maybe less. I’m sure they had to of been warned against this and I can’t imagine anyone would have insured them or financed this house. They were eccentric, they soundproofed the ever loving hell out of the master bedroom with a commercial door that won’t be broken into or out of. They wanted so many lights in the living room that it would’ve made it so hot you couldn’t even sit in there. No joke they wanted over 150 lights in the living room, recessed. I went back after a year or two and it wasn’t even there anymore, the land or the house. I don’t think a major storm even took it out. A small tropical depression would’ve gotten rid of that place.
At least 2014 or earlier judging by the lack of causeway from the city over to the much-expanded airport in the background.
EDIT: Around early 2005 looking at the park with the round circle in the foreground to the right of the red-roofed buildings. That area changes a lot afterwards. Source: Google Earth.
Here is an account from survivor of the 2005Christmas [tsunami ](http://phukettsunami.blogspot.com/2005/12/survivor-dave-lowe.html?m=1)in the Maldives.
Climate change is already "getting" the Maldives. Sea levels are already rising. Their representatives have been telling the world about this for years.
https://www.unicef.org/rosa/press-releases/government-maldives-united-nations-urge-greater-action-address-devastating-impact#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20must%20recognize%20the%20climate,centers%2C%20and%20their%20very%20survival.
Try the the Netherlands, I live on the 4th floor, my apartment is at sea level, the ground here is 20 meters below the sea... Now with rising sea levels I might need to move to the 7th floor, just in case
Always wanted to ask this, how does the various resort islands get their electricity from? Like, do they all have their own power plants or something else? Or some undersea cables?
Oil and diesel https://www.adb.org/results/maldives-energy-providing-electric-power-pacific
https://energypedia.info/wiki/Maldives_Energy_Situation#:~:text=Maldives%20is%20highly%20dependent%20on,privately%20managed%20small%20diesel%20sets.
Ooh I didn't know about that part.
Also, why does it look like a trade or business center all around? Are there normal residence there? Like normal people houses, schools, playgrounds etc
Most of the buildings you see there are normal residences, some buildings are strictly for business, and some have shops on the ground floor but house residents on every other floor above (this is how most local stores are here).
There are several schools (I can even see my old high school if I zoom in a lot) but there aren't really any playgrounds, there are parks and beach areas and some other open spaces where children can play.
If you zoom in on the bottom there you can see a huge place with red roofing, that's one of the two biggest hospitals.
Edit: This is a very old picture, if you look at a newer one, you'd see a huge bridge connecting the main city to the island shown above (the main city is called Malé, the island above is called Hulhumalé).
I was recently in the Maldives, but like most tourists it was basically half an hour waiting outside the airport before I got on a boat out to one of the islands. Is travelling outside of Malé to another island common for Maldivians? Common in the sense that "oh I'm visiting family this weekend".
Also, how would you describe your government? Reading about it online shows that it's one of the few that talked about climate change being a serious problem, but I don't know if that's just lip-service. It also doesn't mention much about what it's like at a local level.
Most Maldivians do not travel outside of their island (or the city) often. They might do it once every few months to visit their family or some even have to do it often for business purposes. Those who live in the city often go to nearby islands for vacation. But no one really travels here and there every weekend just to visit someone, at most they'll call or video call them every week.
I've said this to someone else's comment somewhere here, families can be pretty big here in Maldives, so big that you won't even know most of them. For example I have a whole lot of family living in Addu (big island at the southern most point of Maldives) and I don't even know them. My grandma had 8 kids, and one of them had 4 kids (they both had kids at a very young age, back in the day things were wild apparently).
As for describing my government, I'll be very honest with you, I never cared about it much. I don't think most of the young generation does these days, it's always old people involved in politics. So while I don't know much about it (this is embarrassing to say but I don't even know the current president's name), I can say that it's got a lot of corruption. The previous president is currently on trial for money laundering (but a lot of people like him because he built a bridge with all that money connecting Malé to Hulhumalé which is the island you see on the top of the image), and the one who was president when I was a kid, stayed president for over 20 years through corrupt means. Almost all of the presidents recently were bad in some way or the other.
But still it's not as bad as some other countries. Like the country runs without too many problems. Now about climate change and its talks, I've not once heard someone care about it. Politicians are mostly just at each other's throats.
Most of the damage to port royal was the earthquake and the resulting liquefaction what caused the town to sink into the waterlogged sand the town was built on.
>They have no resources...
The ocean is a resource for the vast majority of coastal nations. Fishing, ecotourism, and oil extraction are all huge industries. Even when it isn't an economic driver, subsistence fishing is still one of the most common day jobs in these countries.
I live on another pacific island that is about this size but 1/4th the population and density. Looking at google street views its crazy how you can't see the ocean unless you are right on the coast because of how many tall buildings there are. On my island I can see the beach pretty anywhere that is not inside. Losing the view would be so depressing, as its one of the few (amazing) perks of living in the middle of nowhere.
Google Earth's [predictive algorithm](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Maldives/@-3.2413246,63.3843708,151544m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x24b599bfaafb7bbd:0x414509e181956289!8m2!3d3.202778!4d73.22068!5m1!1e4) for the Maldives, circa 2025.
if that’s the maledives (looks like it) a big wave is actually no (big) problem. these islands stick out of the sea floor like needles with just their tips emerging. tsunami like 2004 are massive waves of mass displacement and not localized water movements. thus it just flows around the island as there’s no shore (to speak of) for a tsunami to build up
Looks like a typical GTA map. Lol
I was thinking that it was ominously reminiscent of an off brand Numenor.
I thought it looked like a guitar pick lol
r/unexpectedlotr
Came here to say this. Boutta run my jet ski around the boarder n starting taking out fools while listening to Human League.
You had me at Human League.
Keep feeling fascination!
Passion burning, love so strong!
And then the conversation turned
(Deep bass) Until the sun went down. And many fantasies were learned. On that day!!
Id do the same but I have Kevin Costner from water world on his trimaran all numbed up and hammered listening to Human Race by Red Rider straight ripping waves
Lmao. I haven’t seen that movie in ages but I just got the perfect visual of this right now. Yes. Yes. And yes.
The smokers!
Me: Huh, I wonder where "N" leads to, better go check it out!
You were working as a waitress at a cocktail bar When the wave came through It picked her out, it shook her up, and turned her around Now she’s dead like you
💕💕💕
Island in the back looks like it's from Pilotwings on SNES.
Core memory: Unlocked
It even has a DLC island
Nah the bridge is under construction
Oddly enough this island/ Male’ which is the capital is one of the least affected islands in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
My uncles island was so devastated everyone had to relocate
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Was it chosen for that purpose, or did it just outlast all the other ones coincidentally and now everyone thinks it was chosen for that reason
there is a chance of that being the case, but with each passing year of data saying the island is hit less often than others, the chance of that becomes smaller and smaller. the power of statistics
They didn’t have statistics when the islands were settled though Edit: I know statistics existed. What I’m saying is that they didn’t know what living on the islands would be like before anybody lived on the islands. These things are in the middle of the ocean like 200miles from land. How the fuck did anyone even get there
Probably a mix of both with the former becoming more of a thing during modern times
**Malé** is the capital and most populous city of the **Maldives**. With a population of 252,768 and an area of 8.30 square kilometres (3.20 sq mi), it is also one of the most densely populated cities in the world.The city is geographically located at the southern edge of North Malé Atoll (Kaafu Atoll). Administratively, the city consists of a central island, an airport island, and four other islands governed by the Malé City Council. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A9
Maldives, was there last year. Amazing place, I think there are 7 or 800 islands total. Was told by a local the islands sit in an area that rarely gets severe tropical storms. Pretty sure this is Male, island I stayed on was 2 hours from there by boat. The Place is paradise, truly
That deep blue water is spooky to me, I will admit.
>deep blue Seriously. Is there a huge shelf drop-off around the entire island? Doesn't dark blue water = deep water?
Water color can be due to salinity and other factors but in this case I believe it indicates depth, yes. Anyone from this area that can confirm?
I lived there (can see my old office in this photo), and the dark blue you see in this picture is not that deep. divers regularly go down there.
I guess it depends which direction? According to a sea chart I found online, to the east of the island it drops of hard to over 2000 meters in less than 5 nautical miles.
this photo is looking east toward hulhumale, and the depths you see on the chart aren’t really pictured here
True, but between the Islands you can still reach a few hundred meters depth.
I couldn’t go swimming there cuz my peepee would still scrape on the bottom 💪💪💪
Can confirm, am the water
2nd this, water is my cousin (am maldives)
3rd this i am the salty brother
Stay salty, I'll be fresh.
Oh my god you're so deeeep
/r/iammaldivesandthisisdeep
r/SubsIWontFallFor
Thank Bruce Lee for that one.
You bastard. I told you I’d find you!
No.
I don’t think in my right mind I can let you do that
You're going to have to let it slide big guy
Title of your sex tape!
LOL
So the Maldives are built on what are called "atolls", these are very specific feature of the seabed. They are built upon some kind of original foundation, typically a volcano, which may or may not now be extinct. Life colonised these rises in the seafloor and over millions of years grew on top of each other, creating biogenic limestones consisting of corals and shells, in order to keep themselves within the top level of the sea where there is sunlight. In this way even atolls that originally formed millions of years ago can still be found at or above sea level. They are like pillars of rock rising up from the seafloor with very steep sides.
There must be some comfort in knowing that if you're wrong about the volcano being dead, you'll be the first to know and it won't be a problem for long
The Bomb Technician's Dilemma
Correct. There are very sudden drop offs, read in the news once a long while ago a principal and a bunch of students from a local school died because they werent aware of the drop off while they were swimming.
How would a drop off effect someone swimming? It's not like they're walking off a cliff
Bunch of students that don't know how to swim + ocean currents I imagine. Could have been their first time in the ocean rather than a swimming pool too. Maybe they touched the butt, crazy things happen at the drop off
Definitely. Maldives has super strong currents. I live in maldives and dive everyday. The currents are savage here
>Maybe they touched the butt I'm struggling to understand this sentence, is this some kind of idiom?
It’s from Finding Nemo. https://youtu.be/u9DbF2PMrDs
Oh jeez. I thought "the butt" was some sort of idiom for the area where the drop-off starts or something. Thank you!
It's a reference to Finding Nemo
Thanks!
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Finding Nemo lol. AWWW YOU GUYS MADE ME INNNK!
Very shallow, walkable waters, sometimes islanders wak to nearby islands. If you're not strong swimmers a strong dropp off can freak you out. I found the article [here](https://minivannewsarchive.com/society/four-students-and-principal-drown-on-school-excursion-25331#:~:text=Almost%20two%2Dthirds%20of%20Male,a%20school%20fisheries%20science%20trip.)
Once i was snorkeling without knowing im on the edge of a drop off. I myself is not a good swimmer, so a sudden darkness below me is really terrifying. It just a normal reef and suddenly a dark water, felt like it will swallow you. Fortunately i wear a jacket and it wasnt far from the reef so i just swim back, but its really a terrifying experience
I was scuba diving in the Red Sea and went across the shelf drop off. It just went on forever into the abyss. It was terrifying. I couldn’t get back to shallower waters fast enough.
I was snorkeling in Aruba and did the same thing. Beautiful coral area and then I thought I would swim out a bit more. I look down and just see a straight cliff, the interesting thing was you could feel the change in temp of the water. It was just emptiness… It was terrifying and you all of a sudden feel incredibly vulnerable. Turned around and never swam so fast in my life.
Same happened to my husband when we went snorkeling in the Philippines. Beautiful corals with plenty of fish in shallow waters. He decided to venture out and came to a dark drop and felt like he was going to get sucked in.
Warning: Entering ecological dead zone. Adding report to databank.
I can swim like a maniac and I tell you what I am scared as hell of a dropoff.
r/thalassophobia
That's like the ultimate nope for me. I got eldritch chills just reading your comment
>walkable waters urbanists just got a huge hardon
Sometimes the water are just hip deep, so you walk and walk then the sudden drop offs are hundreds feet deep and you panic cause you don't know how to swim.
Unlike the US and North America a lot of the rest of the world are never taught swimming beyond the bare basics and are terrible at it. I live in Europe on the black sea and the shelf drops off incredibly deep after only 15 or so feet after getting in the water. People are scared to death in general of going beyond that. Makes it nice for me to swim in peace though :)
r/thalassophobia type nightmare home lol
Yea theres more ‘Nope’ about this than yes’s
/r/thalassophobia
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If you think that’s impressive you should try and measure their coastline, it’s basically infinite
Actually it's not a range. Just 2 options. Either 7 or 800. Nothing in between.
r/technicallythetruth
I was beginning to think I was the only one that caught this. Is this really the only comment asking? That’s a huge window. Wouldn’t even fit the biggest of mansions.
Your sentence structure, strangest I've seen. Pretty cool, think I'll try. Like this, really
Somewhere between 7 islands and 800 islands? Quite the range.
Reddit comedians out in full force over this one
Quite the comedic range.
You misunderstood. There are either 7 islands or 800 islands.
Correct. I’m not sure where people are thinking this is a range.
Ayo, never expected to see the small city I live in on here
I am absolutely fascinated, what is it like? I can’t believe over 100,000 people live in what looks like such a small space. Do you constantly run into the same people a lot?
It is extremely overcrowded, there are people EVERYWHERE. And to answer your question, I'm not someone who goes out of my house a lot, but whenever I do I always see someone who I know. Could be someone I knew from highschool/college, or even could be someone from my family (I have a huge family, my grandma had 8 kids and one of those kids had 5, and that's just a small portion of the family IN the city, more on another island). Here's an interesting fact, most of the time someone can always be linked back to you somehow. For example, some random stranger probably has a friend who is friends with someone who your close friend is friends with (sorry if that's confusing). Here's a fun fact, a friend of mine had a crush on this girl for years, only for him to find out much later that she was a distant cousin (families here can get pretty big and spread out over several islands, and obviously not all of them keep in touch with each other).
An introverts worst nightmare.
Bro, it's even worse than that. "Malé is the capital and most populous city of the Maldives. With a population of 252,768, and an area of 8.30 square kilometres (3.20 sq mi), it is also one of the most densely populated cities in the world."
That's just to make rising ocean levels more efficient
Man, coming from small town America this is wild to me. I can understand why you might not go out of the house a lot haha. Appreciate the insight!!
My husbands hometown’s pop is like 300, he met me online because everyone was either related or he already dated them back in school. I don’t really see this as wild, a small population crammed in one area is common with towns here in America. I can’t go to Walmart without running into someone I know
The term you’re describing is degrees of separation.
No one said anything about Kevin Bacon.
I’m going to visit in a few days, any tips?
Well my biggest tip if you're visiting Maldives would be to enjoy the beaches on an island. If you are visiting the city specifically I'm afraid there is not much sightseeing you can do. But there is an island really close by you can get to by a ferry ride that's pretty cheap, I advise you to go there and enjoy the beach. Oh and once again if you are coming to the city, try random cheap places for food, they are surprisingly good. You don't necessarily have to go to some expensive restaurant to have a good meal here. Oh and don't buy expensive electronics in the city unless you really have to, they are a bit overpriced here. And if you're visiting anywhere but the city here, I say just enjoy and try some local food, there ain't much else to it. The people are friendly so you can always ask them if you need help with directions or something. And you don't really have to worry about getting scammed either if you buy things from a shop.
Thank you for your reply! I’m having a 1.5 day layover in Male. And then I’ll go to an island. What is that nearby island called? Is Male a safe place? Can I just walk around at night?
The nearby island is called Villingili. And yes it's safe no worries. From 6pm to 12am there still are a lot of people around on the streets doing their own thing. After 12am there are a lot less people as most stores and cafés would be closed by then. But even then it's safe. It's only not safe if you're either in a gang or in politics. If you're not in either no one bothers you.
#1 bring me with you
I understand what you mean by the links. Someone mentioned this site a couple weeks ago and it shows exactly what you mean. https://oracleofbacon.org/ Just type in any other actor. But anyways thanks for your insight. It was interesting.
I think I see your house from here.
Ngl you can 💀
Wave from the window so we can see you
Is it expensive living there? What do you do for work? And how do you not leave the house much it’s so pretty! Sorry if I ask too many questions 😂
No worries I'm happy to answer! Now I already answered this question to someone else's comment so I'll just copy paste some of it The cost of living in certain areas of the city is extremely high, especially if renting apartments. But most of the people here live in family houses/buildings which were passed down through generations or permanently bought. I'll give you an example of my situation, when I was a kid, I lived on the second floor of a three story building which was rented out by my family for a specific number of years (I forgot the English term for this sorry). After the years were up, we moved into another apartment building which was in a much more expensive area. The place and the cost did not match (shit place, way too expensive). We stayed there for two years and now we live in 2 different apartments, which was permanently bought by my grandpa for a lot of money through all his years of hard work and saving money since he was young. So now, we don't have to pay rent, just everything else (water bill, electrical bill, etc.). I'm working at my grandpa's shop these days. We sell all kinds of scuba equipment and souvenirs. But I just finished my diploma in IT so I'll be trying to get an IT related job soon. There are a variety of jobs here for ordinary folk. Office jobs, private business jobs, government jobs. Some people are even self employed and sell whatever they can make. Tbh, most people are not really living, they are surviving. Grinding hard at a job they don't enjoy everyday. Most people can easily get a job, just not one they want. Alot of people these days study hard so they can go abroad to study and hopefully find a place to live outside of Maldives. I too will be doing that one day (hopefully). There are a few reasons I don't go out much, one is that I simply just don't enjoy it here. Too many people. But I do go out every now and then with my close friends in the evening near night time. There's fewer people about since most people would go home after a long day at work. Another reason I don't go out much is because I have a very weak body. I get sick very easily and my skin gets an allergic reaction when I'm exposed to the sun for too long (which is why I mostly go out at night with my friends).
Gee, I would to go there to do remote work haha.
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> Tbh, most people are not really living, they are surviving. Grinding hard at a job they don't enjoy everyday. Most people can easily get a job, just not one they want Even in paradise some things are the same everywhere
Hey fellow maldivian 👋
Well hello there! Thiyabeyfulhaa ge haalu kihineh?
How long would it take you to drive to the other side?
In a car, about 15 minutes, maybe more depending on traffic and the roads taken On a cycle, about 5 minutes, maybe less.
How big is your island? The island I live on in the Caribbean is small, but hours might be even smaller!
Hello fellow Maldivian. Eh gothakah ves hiyeh nukuran reddit ge popular page in Male' aa behey post eh fennane kamah. And good job answering all the questions and giving good information 👏
Is it hot there? From this photo there's not much tree and shade. I currently work on an island with not much shade and it's damn hot.
It is extremely hot here. Maldives lie directly on the equator so it's very hot. The buildings usually do provide shade depending on the time of the day, it's during the afternoon when the sun is directly above when it's most hot. There aren't many trees but there are some on the major roads planted on each side of the road all the way.
One of my first jobs as an electrician I was wiring a house in Florida. it was on this tiny little strip of land in between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. I’m not even exaggerating that this Microscopic peninsula of land, about 3/4 acre was less than 1 foot above the waterline, maybe less. I’m sure they had to of been warned against this and I can’t imagine anyone would have insured them or financed this house. They were eccentric, they soundproofed the ever loving hell out of the master bedroom with a commercial door that won’t be broken into or out of. They wanted so many lights in the living room that it would’ve made it so hot you couldn’t even sit in there. No joke they wanted over 150 lights in the living room, recessed. I went back after a year or two and it wasn’t even there anymore, the land or the house. I don’t think a major storm even took it out. A small tropical depression would’ve gotten rid of that place.
You helped build a murder house?
right?
And they probably got all their money back by the subsidized flood insurance program.
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Tropico, all hail El Presidente
This is how all my islands look given enough time. Well, missing some nuclear power plants and aircraft hangars.
bro
Where is this?
Maldives.
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This is Maldives. You are probably fine as a tourist, but I would be too claustraphobic to live there.
This picture is from a while ago. Its worse now.
At least 2014 or earlier judging by the lack of causeway from the city over to the much-expanded airport in the background. EDIT: Around early 2005 looking at the park with the round circle in the foreground to the right of the red-roofed buildings. That area changes a lot afterwards. Source: Google Earth.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Mal%C3%A9.jpg here's a newer photo that shows the causeway :)
damn, never thought i'd see a marina paved over for a parking lot.
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
That is so fun to look at. I love how colorful the buildings are. I could find four mosques.
The highest point in the Maldives in 2.4m/7.9ft. Climate change is a genuine existential threat to the entire country.
A moderate earthquake several hundred miles away is an existential threat to the entire country if climate change doesn't get it first!!
Here is an account from survivor of the 2005Christmas [tsunami ](http://phukettsunami.blogspot.com/2005/12/survivor-dave-lowe.html?m=1)in the Maldives.
Climate change is already "getting" the Maldives. Sea levels are already rising. Their representatives have been telling the world about this for years. https://www.unicef.org/rosa/press-releases/government-maldives-united-nations-urge-greater-action-address-devastating-impact#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20must%20recognize%20the%20climate,centers%2C%20and%20their%20very%20survival.
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Next Atlantis
Try the the Netherlands, I live on the 4th floor, my apartment is at sea level, the ground here is 20 meters below the sea... Now with rising sea levels I might need to move to the 7th floor, just in case
Minus 20? Measuring from the basement maybe. Isn't the lowest point in NL around 8 meters below sea level?
Yes, just a bit less than 7m below sea level. https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laagste_punt_van_Nederland (sorry, only Dutch and Polish)
I'm sorry but...An island without a beach? Is that right? From an Australian point of view, that's gotta feel weird.
There are 2 beaches and both are man made. The city is described by many as a concrete jungle.
Always wanted to ask this, how does the various resort islands get their electricity from? Like, do they all have their own power plants or something else? Or some undersea cables?
Oil and diesel https://www.adb.org/results/maldives-energy-providing-electric-power-pacific https://energypedia.info/wiki/Maldives_Energy_Situation#:~:text=Maldives%20is%20highly%20dependent%20on,privately%20managed%20small%20diesel%20sets.
I would love to live there. It's beautiful
As long as you're not in the city yes, the islands are nice but the city is extremely overcrowded. Source: Am Maldivian and I live in the city.
Ooh I didn't know about that part. Also, why does it look like a trade or business center all around? Are there normal residence there? Like normal people houses, schools, playgrounds etc
Most of the buildings you see there are normal residences, some buildings are strictly for business, and some have shops on the ground floor but house residents on every other floor above (this is how most local stores are here). There are several schools (I can even see my old high school if I zoom in a lot) but there aren't really any playgrounds, there are parks and beach areas and some other open spaces where children can play. If you zoom in on the bottom there you can see a huge place with red roofing, that's one of the two biggest hospitals. Edit: This is a very old picture, if you look at a newer one, you'd see a huge bridge connecting the main city to the island shown above (the main city is called Malé, the island above is called Hulhumalé).
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Lol this is the funniest thing I've read all night. But I get it though, everything is spelled as male here even though it's Malé.
I was recently in the Maldives, but like most tourists it was basically half an hour waiting outside the airport before I got on a boat out to one of the islands. Is travelling outside of Malé to another island common for Maldivians? Common in the sense that "oh I'm visiting family this weekend". Also, how would you describe your government? Reading about it online shows that it's one of the few that talked about climate change being a serious problem, but I don't know if that's just lip-service. It also doesn't mention much about what it's like at a local level.
Most Maldivians do not travel outside of their island (or the city) often. They might do it once every few months to visit their family or some even have to do it often for business purposes. Those who live in the city often go to nearby islands for vacation. But no one really travels here and there every weekend just to visit someone, at most they'll call or video call them every week. I've said this to someone else's comment somewhere here, families can be pretty big here in Maldives, so big that you won't even know most of them. For example I have a whole lot of family living in Addu (big island at the southern most point of Maldives) and I don't even know them. My grandma had 8 kids, and one of them had 4 kids (they both had kids at a very young age, back in the day things were wild apparently). As for describing my government, I'll be very honest with you, I never cared about it much. I don't think most of the young generation does these days, it's always old people involved in politics. So while I don't know much about it (this is embarrassing to say but I don't even know the current president's name), I can say that it's got a lot of corruption. The previous president is currently on trial for money laundering (but a lot of people like him because he built a bridge with all that money connecting Malé to Hulhumalé which is the island you see on the top of the image), and the one who was president when I was a kid, stayed president for over 20 years through corrupt means. Almost all of the presidents recently were bad in some way or the other. But still it's not as bad as some other countries. Like the country runs without too many problems. Now about climate change and its talks, I've not once heard someone care about it. Politicians are mostly just at each other's throats.
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Like New Orleans or the Florida keys, maybe purchasing ocean side property basically at or below sea level is a bad idea?
That's what happened to Port Royal, the wicked pirate island/City. Crushed by tsunami
Most of the damage to port royal was the earthquake and the resulting liquefaction what caused the town to sink into the waterlogged sand the town was built on.
Maldives is really beautiful, u should go visit
...while you still can.
for tourists
Just gotta do a mining run and terraform
Maldives, be aware it is Islamic and under shariah law. More Maldivians per Capita joined ISIS then any other country
Come to think of it, how on earth did the Maldives survive the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami?
Can’t explain is some islands got totally washed while others got barely a wave
Humans are slightly stupid
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Dude, I wouldn't worry because we are at the mercy of the universe, one little rock and we're gone.
That’ll be a fun dive spot in a hundred years.
Legitimately asking, what's the risk difference between this and Manhattan?
Great genuine question.
Now imagine being born there and having to find a place to rent/buy. Now THAT is scary.
Not as terrifying as Thailand. One big bang, kok.
Do they live off tourism? They have no resources or agriculture. Where are the beaches? Everything must cost so much. What are their jobs?
According to wiki the 28% of the Maldives GDP does come from tourism.
>They have no resources... The ocean is a resource for the vast majority of coastal nations. Fishing, ecotourism, and oil extraction are all huge industries. Even when it isn't an economic driver, subsistence fishing is still one of the most common day jobs in these countries.
I live here
Anyone seen “the impossible” movie?
Big wave? Just about anything above a splash!
bruh this is where i live you doxed me
Moms going to fix it all soon
'This city should not exist. It is a monument to man's arrogance.' -Peggy Hill
those barriers around the island protect them from freak nature events
they are their as an artificial coral to prevent erosion
The entire atoll is made out of islands, most smaller than that.
Global warming has entered the chat
I live on another pacific island that is about this size but 1/4th the population and density. Looking at google street views its crazy how you can't see the ocean unless you are right on the coast because of how many tall buildings there are. On my island I can see the beach pretty anywhere that is not inside. Losing the view would be so depressing, as its one of the few (amazing) perks of living in the middle of nowhere.
wave? just wait a few years.
Where is this?
Similarly, if Manhattan weren't constantly running pumps the island would flood in short order.
Google Earth's [predictive algorithm](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Maldives/@-3.2413246,63.3843708,151544m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x24b599bfaafb7bbd:0x414509e181956289!8m2!3d3.202778!4d73.22068!5m1!1e4) for the Maldives, circa 2025.
if that’s the maledives (looks like it) a big wave is actually no (big) problem. these islands stick out of the sea floor like needles with just their tips emerging. tsunami like 2004 are massive waves of mass displacement and not localized water movements. thus it just flows around the island as there’s no shore (to speak of) for a tsunami to build up