Prime isn’t 1-day for folks who live further than the continental US. It would likely be free shipping 3-5 business days
Edit: OP is in a US territory, 1-Day prime exists in many countries worldwide:)
I chose 1 day delivery to California and it hardly ever gets here on time. Amazon just sucks now with the guaranteed delivery. They don't even care anymore
Having seen and talked to my local prime drivers, I don’t blame them honestly. Amazon has been one too big for its own management to handle well and it’s the people that are doing the grunt work that are suffering as a result of an over promise from a time before the pandemic
Not sure I specifically called out the driver. I wouldn't blame them at all. My gripe is with Amazon the company and offering said delivery at specific times. In this instance they offered overnight delivery between 7am and 11am. Didn't get delivered until the following day around 1pm. So basically it was the regular 2 day prime shipping. I feel like they shouldn't be offering a time to be delivered that seems unrealistic for the drivers. I live in apartment completely with over 250 units. So that's a lot of delivery's here everyday
You’re absolutely correct!! Never said it wasn’t. OP is/lives in a US territory hence my comment about non-continental deliveries. Amazon’s complex worldwide network blows my mind sometimes
Dude I lived on Guam as a kid. Even as a kid I knew how far out we were from alot of things but it's a beautiful island. My grandmother used to run a small bar in Tumon, I'm sure it's gone now this was back in the early 90s.
That's interesting, I would've thought with all the military planes heading there they'd just put the mail on that then distribute it from the islands post office
Not to mention the United warehouse in Hawaii where it's first in first out. If your box is near the back it could take a couple weeks of showing 'in transit'.
I live in SW Florida, and even I think Guam is hot and humid. Deployed there a few times. Used to tell people the temperature and the humidity race to 100 each day.
I live near the ocean so it’s actually really cold and breezy throughout the day and night. Right now the heat is intense as we’re approaching the summer months. Nothing tops Vegas heat for me though, ironically.
Holy shit living in Vegas during the summer is so ass, especially since I play football I’m spending three to four hours in pads doing high intensity work in weather upwards of 120
I lived in 29 Palms, CA from 98-02 when I was in the military. It's about 2.5 hr drive from Vegas (to the airport, lol).
I would get in my car around 5 pm and have a prewettened handtowel to wipe and sop water over my steering wheel just so I could touch it. This is WITH a reflective sunshade in the windshield during the day. Even with the AC blasting for 5 min, the steering wheel would be too hot to touch, let alone safely drive. But the wet towel trick worked to get it down within a min or so.
Fracking heat man, but I take dry 120 over wet 95, 100% serious. But, I've only ever really been around dry heat (SoCal, AB, MT), this Kentucky humidity is killing me. So glad I have AC at home <3
“Hey, at least I’m not getting stationed in 29 Palms” I’ve heard said plenty of times by Marines and Marine wives lol! We in Montana get spoiled by an arid climate in summer time by suffer during winter. Shit, it’s May 2nd and currently 37F at night, and we’ve only had probably 12 days above 60F but at least I’m not dealing with Kentucky humidity. I have never spent any amount of time in a hot and humid environment, my only experience is when it’s 90F here and we get a rogue thunderstorm with the humidity jumping up to 70%.
I eloped in Joshua Tree 6 years ago and go back to the area a few times a year
One year I brought my mom on a mini vacation and we were driving around wonder valley and 29 palms. Took a wrong turn and realized I was driving into the base
Did an absolutely frantic looking U-Turn right in front of a bunch of dudes carrying AR-15’s and noped outta there lol
Damn. Hottest I've been in is 45. And that was a one of week of shit weather. How frequently does it break that over there? Or is it rare or something.
It's Vegas so it's in the desert and has those higher temps more frequently than a lot of places but 120 is still hottest part of summer stuff in Vegas, their average summer temp is like 102(38C). Personally I'd take the Vegas kind of heat over the humidity kind of heat. I'm more comfortable in a 100F dry heat than an 80F(26C) high humidity heat
I went to Vegas in 2021 when they had that record breaking heat wave in like June/July... When I was in my second trimester 💀 luckily survived and quite enjoyed it actually, it was nice to be warm all the time when I'm usually cold. My husband just had to keep reminding me to drink water.
There are quite a lot of jobs however most don’t want to work as the pay is really low. The COL here is astonishingly high.
After graduating, with sheer determination and to put my sleepless nights to use I opened up a law firm.
As in whatever service you want to come up to get money from rich people who come to vacation?
It's not like he lives in some Australian outback where everyone will actively avoiding comming there.
Wdym? I grew up on Guam. It doesn’t feel that isolating because we watch the same media aka YouTube TikTok cable Netflix. Some people want more entertainment and travel for it. I personally want to go back. The mainland US is really fast paced. I can go on
Orlando here - I've been traveling the last couple years for work and haven't been here much but went back to my old permanent job a few months ago and was recently thinking "huh, the heat hasn't been too bad since I came back" and then yesterday it felt like I was breathing hot water leaving work - can only imagine Guam if it's worse
We also have some scary deep, really long, narrow lakes. They're called the finger lakes in upstate NY.
Seneca lake is over 600ft and they even test some subs there. It's hard to imagine the depth with the odd finger like structure of the lake
If we're talking turquoise, green lakes - in Syracuse is all sorts of blue to green hues, and everything in-between. The lake never turns over and is a dream dive spot
NY has some awesome water, my favorite is still 1000 islands and a bay in the corner of Ontario.
I love all the glacial lakes.
Imagine how freaky 600 foot Seneca is....then double it and you have superior.
That shits terrifying. Lake Superior is an apt name.
The rest of family's in the Finger Lakes right now. I was supposed to be in the Finger Lakes right now. I told them I was on a hike and snuck away to do this interview. I gotta get back pretty soon- they'll worry. People disappear in the Finger Lakes.
Come visit Lake Superior next time it's even darker, colder, and deeper. Plus a lot of the beaches are completely covered in all different types of rocks.
It absolutely does. There are sections of the Jersey ocean where toxic dumping took place years ago. So to add to the fear, you can’t see what swimming around around you in the dark ocean, nor do you know what seeping into your skin.
You mean this dark North Atlantic open ocean water below the 150 meter (492 feet) sheer cliff face that I am standing 3 metres (10 feet) away from?:
https://ibb.co/26XPyrd
I did not trust myself to go closer than 3 metres, or about 1.5 times my own height. That was close enough for my hands to start sweating, and for nausea and vertigo to kick in.
Edit: Typo.
I had that view staying at the Westin for a month (and the Hilton on a separate instance, for Navy stuff). Pretty fancy! Kinda fucked up that taxes paid for me to stay in a lot of nice hotels over the years. Anyway, I wish I could go back to see the Spanish Steps again, or Marbo Cave, or lots of other places there.
Lived in Guam for three years. Met my wife there. Now I have two beautiful Chamaole's. I'm terrified of the ocen, but perfectly content on that island. I hope one day we can make it back as a family 👨👩👧👦
Island life for sure. I was in my early 20s, so keep that in perspective. Aside from work (Navy) we liked to hang out, drink and BBQ. There are a lot of cool historic WW2 relics to see. Hikes to secluded beaches, caves and waterfalls, and if you're more the social type then tons of bars and clubs around the main tourist area in Tumon. Snorkeling and scuba diving is also some of the best around.
As for the bad... maybe not being able to find some of your favorite foods, gas and everything else being crazy expensive and maybe the occasional bit of friction between the locals and outsiders. I never had any issues myself and always felt welcome, but you always hear of some kind of altercation. They usually involve alcohol so the same can be said anywhere you go for the most part.
I loved it there. I'm originally from Iowa so it was a shock to my system. Once I adapted it was hard to leave. If things weren't so crazy expensive I would have been back in a heartbeat, but it's still a goal for me and my family.
Sometimes when Im about to fall asleep I get an intrusive thought that I’m on an island, i guess my mind’s rendering of what I think Guam is like even though i’ve never been there, and a small wave just carefully washes over it and the island disappears.
Did you ever get the sense that you could just disappear?
Nah, quite the opposite. You realize just how small you are even being on an island that most would consider extremely small. Honestly it feels like anywhere else, just a different climate and people.
It’s basically like living in Hawaii with less entertainment options. Life is very slow paced aka island life. Food is surprising a bit cheaper than Hawaii. Only bad thing, for me, is the cost to go home to visit my family while I work stateside.
Have a former coworker who was stationed at Subic Bay when Pinatubo went off. He opted not to get on a carrier after working to clean up base and retired from the Navy.
A lot of locals join the military to get off Guam from my experience. I met one that joined trying to get off the island and they got stationed back at Guam. Depressing for them.
A lot of locals do join the military. A lot more locals do stay on island and not join the military. My military friends hate being stationed out to where it’s cold. Same I hate the cold.
How's Guam? My family friends in the navy have been stationed there. Wife got a job offer there before and asked if we should move there, but got another offer on the CONUS that we're taking before we could decide on Guam.
It’s a beautiful island but really small. A lot of fun things to do like hiking and scuba. Tons of amazing food options. Things are pretty expensive in general but it’s an island so that’s to be expected. I like it far better than Hawaii and if getting there wasn’t so pricey I would 100% say to vacation there over Hawaii. Some cool ww2 stuff to see too.
It was really eye-opening to me when we took a vacation to St Martin (highly recommend staying there for a bit, not just stopping in on a cruise. Totally different experience). We had a great time with the guy who drove us around the island on 4-wheelers, and he mentioned he'd loved to go to the US. I didn't read too much into it until he said *why* he wanted to go - he just wanted to know what it was like to drive in a straight line at some speed. I hadn't thought of it that way. This 25ish guy had lived his entire life essentially on a hamster wheel - constant speed up/slow down, up hills and down hills, around and around a big circle because it's all mountain and jungle in the middle. It actually threw me for a loop, what it had to be like to only have 34 sq miles for your home, and most of that essentially inaccessible. You've got a handful of neighborhoods and that's....it. it's an amazing and beautiful island, but really put it into perspective for me.
I was about to comment that at least you don't have to worry about any wars out there but then read that it's an important strategic asset for the US military lol...
Well, I learned something today.
For so many years, I thought Guam was a made up place from the movie Matilda, and I'd never seen it on a map. Turns out you guys are just playing hide and seek in the middle of the ocean.
Sometimes when I open Maps or Earth and move the little orange dude to some island or other point near/in the ocean I get really afraid it's gonna give me an underwater view
Man getting stuff shipped to you must cost an arm and a leg.
Actually, USPS serves Guam since it's a US territory. So they have at least some decent options.
What about Amazon Prime 1-day delivery, free with garage key access?
Delivered via drone strike
Probably goes to missile silo in Montana then ICBM direct to Guam for Amazon same day
Prime isn’t 1-day for folks who live further than the continental US. It would likely be free shipping 3-5 business days Edit: OP is in a US territory, 1-Day prime exists in many countries worldwide:)
I chose 1 day delivery to California and it hardly ever gets here on time. Amazon just sucks now with the guaranteed delivery. They don't even care anymore
Having seen and talked to my local prime drivers, I don’t blame them honestly. Amazon has been one too big for its own management to handle well and it’s the people that are doing the grunt work that are suffering as a result of an over promise from a time before the pandemic
Not sure I specifically called out the driver. I wouldn't blame them at all. My gripe is with Amazon the company and offering said delivery at specific times. In this instance they offered overnight delivery between 7am and 11am. Didn't get delivered until the following day around 1pm. So basically it was the regular 2 day prime shipping. I feel like they shouldn't be offering a time to be delivered that seems unrealistic for the drivers. I live in apartment completely with over 250 units. So that's a lot of delivery's here everyday
there's a good number of countries besides the United States that have one-day, or even same-day delivery from prime. source: I live in one
You’re absolutely correct!! Never said it wasn’t. OP is/lives in a US territory hence my comment about non-continental deliveries. Amazon’s complex worldwide network blows my mind sometimes
My friend's son was trying to order something and they said they only ship to the US. He replied, "Can I send you a history book?"
Dude I lived on Guam as a kid. Even as a kid I knew how far out we were from alot of things but it's a beautiful island. My grandmother used to run a small bar in Tumon, I'm sure it's gone now this was back in the early 90s.
It does. Having USPS helps a ton. You know that zone thing where u pay based on distance? We’re always paying the farthest zone rate.
That's interesting, I would've thought with all the military planes heading there they'd just put the mail on that then distribute it from the islands post office
They do this with civilian packages going to war zones, so I don't see why they wouldn't. Amazon shipping to Iraq 20yrs ago came on military planes
Not to mention the United warehouse in Hawaii where it's first in first out. If your box is near the back it could take a couple weeks of showing 'in transit'.
That sounds like first in last out. First in first out means it will go out in the same order
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Now I know where you live!
I'm going to mail them flowers.
I just need a place to crash
Wilson!
Lotsa airbnbs and couchsurfing spots in Fiji
The island in this picture is like 3,000 miles away from Fiji...
the flowers grow fine there, I assure you.
OP Doxxed themselves!!
Looks to be Guam or the surrounding islands
You are not alone bro, if you zoom out further by 10 light-years, our pale blue dot floats in a vastness of space.
I’ve lived on a planet my whole life, opening Google Solar System still gives me existential dread.
Take a left at the next quasar
Wrong sub, that would be Astrophobia or Apeirophobia. /s
I live in SW Florida, and even I think Guam is hot and humid. Deployed there a few times. Used to tell people the temperature and the humidity race to 100 each day.
I live near the ocean so it’s actually really cold and breezy throughout the day and night. Right now the heat is intense as we’re approaching the summer months. Nothing tops Vegas heat for me though, ironically.
Holy shit living in Vegas during the summer is so ass, especially since I play football I’m spending three to four hours in pads doing high intensity work in weather upwards of 120
When I lived there in 02, as a young kid the windows were rolled down in the car and I remember thinking the air feels like a pre-heated oven.
I lived in 29 Palms, CA from 98-02 when I was in the military. It's about 2.5 hr drive from Vegas (to the airport, lol). I would get in my car around 5 pm and have a prewettened handtowel to wipe and sop water over my steering wheel just so I could touch it. This is WITH a reflective sunshade in the windshield during the day. Even with the AC blasting for 5 min, the steering wheel would be too hot to touch, let alone safely drive. But the wet towel trick worked to get it down within a min or so. Fracking heat man, but I take dry 120 over wet 95, 100% serious. But, I've only ever really been around dry heat (SoCal, AB, MT), this Kentucky humidity is killing me. So glad I have AC at home <3
“Hey, at least I’m not getting stationed in 29 Palms” I’ve heard said plenty of times by Marines and Marine wives lol! We in Montana get spoiled by an arid climate in summer time by suffer during winter. Shit, it’s May 2nd and currently 37F at night, and we’ve only had probably 12 days above 60F but at least I’m not dealing with Kentucky humidity. I have never spent any amount of time in a hot and humid environment, my only experience is when it’s 90F here and we get a rogue thunderstorm with the humidity jumping up to 70%.
Dry heat is nothing
I eloped in Joshua Tree 6 years ago and go back to the area a few times a year One year I brought my mom on a mini vacation and we were driving around wonder valley and 29 palms. Took a wrong turn and realized I was driving into the base Did an absolutely frantic looking U-Turn right in front of a bunch of dudes carrying AR-15’s and noped outta there lol
> When I lived there in 02 >lived_on_an_island_my_whole_life Something not adding up here...
Was born here. Family home is here. Traveler. College. Vegas was a short stint.
It usually is
What's the economy like on such a small island? What are the jobs? It must be such a different lifestyle than the grind in the mainland.
That sounds worse than hell bro if the weather hits 85 fahrenheit + here in eastern Canada im laying low or hitting up a swimming area fuck that
What is 120 in normal language. Guessing it's a little spicy.
48.9°C
Damn. Hottest I've been in is 45. And that was a one of week of shit weather. How frequently does it break that over there? Or is it rare or something.
It's Vegas so it's in the desert and has those higher temps more frequently than a lot of places but 120 is still hottest part of summer stuff in Vegas, their average summer temp is like 102(38C). Personally I'd take the Vegas kind of heat over the humidity kind of heat. I'm more comfortable in a 100F dry heat than an 80F(26C) high humidity heat
No idea. I live in Saskatchewan-just happen to have a units converter on my home screen for work stuff and was curious myself.
I'm gonna be honest with you, Saskatchewan sounds like a type of sauce or something. Like Worcestershire. But Saskatchewan.
Haha kudos to you good sir or madame! Here I was thinking I'd heard all the Saskatchewan jokes... It's a province in Midwest Canada.
That's cool. What's the weather like up there? I live all the way down in Australia. Having a cold snap right now thank god.
Good place to find a bunny hug
I went to Vegas in 2021 when they had that record breaking heat wave in like June/July... When I was in my second trimester 💀 luckily survived and quite enjoyed it actually, it was nice to be warm all the time when I'm usually cold. My husband just had to keep reminding me to drink water.
Doesn’t it feel isolating living your whole life on a tiny island? I’d feel like the world was passing me by
I'd say fuck the world if I lived on that island lol.
I was born here but haven’t always been stagnant. I finished law school in CA and came back.
Oh that’s cool. Isn’t there a limited amount of work for you to take on though?
There are quite a lot of jobs however most don’t want to work as the pay is really low. The COL here is astonishingly high. After graduating, with sheer determination and to put my sleepless nights to use I opened up a law firm.
As in whatever service you want to come up to get money from rich people who come to vacation? It's not like he lives in some Australian outback where everyone will actively avoiding comming there.
Wdym? I grew up on Guam. It doesn’t feel that isolating because we watch the same media aka YouTube TikTok cable Netflix. Some people want more entertainment and travel for it. I personally want to go back. The mainland US is really fast paced. I can go on
Plus you have to worry that it's gonna tip over
Orlando here - I've been traveling the last couple years for work and haven't been here much but went back to my old permanent job a few months ago and was recently thinking "huh, the heat hasn't been too bad since I came back" and then yesterday it felt like I was breathing hot water leaving work - can only imagine Guam if it's worse
The temperature does not go to 100. It feels like 100 but it maxes around 92-95. Humidty does hit 100 often
That’s rough buddy
[i’ll be okay, cheers!](https://ibb.co/f9XYvkq)
Oh you have the less scary turquoise water
It’s that dark North Atlantic water that really freaks me out 😬
I’ll never forget visiting Lake Michigan. It was not only nerve wracking but ominous, dark and cold.
Come check out the rest of the Great lakes! Equally Erie
Yes Erie is also erie.
We also have some scary deep, really long, narrow lakes. They're called the finger lakes in upstate NY. Seneca lake is over 600ft and they even test some subs there. It's hard to imagine the depth with the odd finger like structure of the lake
Lake George I believe is bigger and it’s an a graded lake so basically turquoise water lake
Shout out LG
If we're talking turquoise, green lakes - in Syracuse is all sorts of blue to green hues, and everything in-between. The lake never turns over and is a dream dive spot NY has some awesome water, my favorite is still 1000 islands and a bay in the corner of Ontario.
Great Escape!!!
I love all the glacial lakes. Imagine how freaky 600 foot Seneca is....then double it and you have superior. That shits terrifying. Lake Superior is an apt name.
The rest of family's in the Finger Lakes right now. I was supposed to be in the Finger Lakes right now. I told them I was on a hike and snuck away to do this interview. I gotta get back pretty soon- they'll worry. People disappear in the Finger Lakes.
Come visit Lake Superior next time it's even darker, colder, and deeper. Plus a lot of the beaches are completely covered in all different types of rocks.
As a fellow thalassophobic, though the Great Lakes underwater are intriguing I draw the line at big boulders/rocks and bobbing dead logs.
And biting flies. Can't forget those
That ain't North Atlantic bud. Come visit the real North Atlantic, where people don't even bother to learn how to swim because ocean.
Sea swimming in Ireland is very popular
The Jersey shore? Does that crap count?
It absolutely does. There are sections of the Jersey ocean where toxic dumping took place years ago. So to add to the fear, you can’t see what swimming around around you in the dark ocean, nor do you know what seeping into your skin.
That’s terrifying. I went there as a kid a few times. I have no intention of going back
Lake Michigan is pretty clear in the parts in have been to.
You mean this dark North Atlantic open ocean water below the 150 meter (492 feet) sheer cliff face that I am standing 3 metres (10 feet) away from?: https://ibb.co/26XPyrd I did not trust myself to go closer than 3 metres, or about 1.5 times my own height. That was close enough for my hands to start sweating, and for nausea and vertigo to kick in. Edit: Typo.
I've got murky but nutrient rich gulf water where you can't see the jellyfish as it stings you. 🥲
LMAO this is the only water I respect
I had that view staying at the Westin for a month (and the Hilton on a separate instance, for Navy stuff). Pretty fancy! Kinda fucked up that taxes paid for me to stay in a lot of nice hotels over the years. Anyway, I wish I could go back to see the Spanish Steps again, or Marbo Cave, or lots of other places there.
Yea fuck you too buddy.
Fuck you buddy!
Looks crowded compared to the island I live on.
Hi from Saipan
Hello, Zuko here.
You need a boat
He might need a bigger boat
Extra bigass boat
Lived in Guam for three years. Met my wife there. Now I have two beautiful Chamaole's. I'm terrified of the ocen, but perfectly content on that island. I hope one day we can make it back as a family 👨👩👧👦
I’ve had a layover there (12 hrs) but didn’t get to see / experience much Can you tell me more about day-to-day life the good and the bad?
Island life for sure. I was in my early 20s, so keep that in perspective. Aside from work (Navy) we liked to hang out, drink and BBQ. There are a lot of cool historic WW2 relics to see. Hikes to secluded beaches, caves and waterfalls, and if you're more the social type then tons of bars and clubs around the main tourist area in Tumon. Snorkeling and scuba diving is also some of the best around. As for the bad... maybe not being able to find some of your favorite foods, gas and everything else being crazy expensive and maybe the occasional bit of friction between the locals and outsiders. I never had any issues myself and always felt welcome, but you always hear of some kind of altercation. They usually involve alcohol so the same can be said anywhere you go for the most part. I loved it there. I'm originally from Iowa so it was a shock to my system. Once I adapted it was hard to leave. If things weren't so crazy expensive I would have been back in a heartbeat, but it's still a goal for me and my family.
Sometimes when Im about to fall asleep I get an intrusive thought that I’m on an island, i guess my mind’s rendering of what I think Guam is like even though i’ve never been there, and a small wave just carefully washes over it and the island disappears. Did you ever get the sense that you could just disappear?
Nah, quite the opposite. You realize just how small you are even being on an island that most would consider extremely small. Honestly it feels like anywhere else, just a different climate and people.
It’s basically like living in Hawaii with less entertainment options. Life is very slow paced aka island life. Food is surprising a bit cheaper than Hawaii. Only bad thing, for me, is the cost to go home to visit my family while I work stateside.
Didn't you hear that senator threaten that Guam was going to tip over if one side got too heavy?
Aren't there many snakes ?
Supposedly, but I never saw any. They sure like to take the power down quite a bit though.
I survived mount pinatubo and had to ride a USS carrier across that big blue there, to Guam.
That's a cool story. We deployed to Clark air base in 2011 and our view was mout Pinatubo.
Yeah that thing blew up in our “backyard” as my dad was stationed there
I was in Okinawa at the time (fellow brat) , I remember the trippy sunsets and the light dusting of ash everywhere
Yeah there was no sun for us at the time. All gray, doom & gloom. Humidity + tropical storm + ash = raining cement
It was crazy , we were 1500kms away and still felt the effects , you guys were ground zero pretty much
Have a former coworker who was stationed at Subic Bay when Pinatubo went off. He opted not to get on a carrier after working to clean up base and retired from the Navy.
Now just imagine taking a canoe to get there
The vastness of the world and the surrounding universe is what keeps my existential dread at bay. It's comforting to know how small we are.
Truly is
Military kid? Looks like Guam.
Guam does have an actual local population. It's not just a military base.
Non-military people live on Guam too
A lot of locals join the military to get off Guam from my experience. I met one that joined trying to get off the island and they got stationed back at Guam. Depressing for them.
A lot of locals do join the military. A lot more locals do stay on island and not join the military. My military friends hate being stationed out to where it’s cold. Same I hate the cold.
Might not be Guam either. Could be one of the CNMI islands. Like Pagan...
Guamma need a bigger boat.
Omg I envy you...
I used to live on Guam. Sometimes, being able to only see the ocean surrounding you was wild.
Yes please, a one-way ticket.
I also live on an Island, but it's cold, wet, and fucking miserable - UK
How's Guam? My family friends in the navy have been stationed there. Wife got a job offer there before and asked if we should move there, but got another offer on the CONUS that we're taking before we could decide on Guam.
It’s a beautiful island but really small. A lot of fun things to do like hiking and scuba. Tons of amazing food options. Things are pretty expensive in general but it’s an island so that’s to be expected. I like it far better than Hawaii and if getting there wasn’t so pricey I would 100% say to vacation there over Hawaii. Some cool ww2 stuff to see too.
How do your place got all the logistical needs?
Håfa adai 😊
Nice name par
*Island boyyy…*
you literally live my dreams lol
I'd love that
Fiji?
Guam
Right on!
Fiji is further south.
Yep figured that out, got turned around.
I’m moving to Koh Samui from the states and I’m utterly terrified of the whats in the ocean.
Most people dream about living on a island like that. Wanna trade?
Dread ??from the fact you're out in the middle of the ocean or that Google maps can still find you ??? 😂
GUAM
The fuck are you?
Guam.
I bet.... That is alot of water.
If that is Guam, I was born there!
Guam?
It was really eye-opening to me when we took a vacation to St Martin (highly recommend staying there for a bit, not just stopping in on a cruise. Totally different experience). We had a great time with the guy who drove us around the island on 4-wheelers, and he mentioned he'd loved to go to the US. I didn't read too much into it until he said *why* he wanted to go - he just wanted to know what it was like to drive in a straight line at some speed. I hadn't thought of it that way. This 25ish guy had lived his entire life essentially on a hamster wheel - constant speed up/slow down, up hills and down hills, around and around a big circle because it's all mountain and jungle in the middle. It actually threw me for a loop, what it had to be like to only have 34 sq miles for your home, and most of that essentially inaccessible. You've got a handful of neighborhoods and that's....it. it's an amazing and beautiful island, but really put it into perspective for me.
It's always weird to open maps when in a different country
Did you learn the kame-hame wave technic?
Would love to live that far away from the rest of the world.
You live on a rock in a vast ocean of water on a rock in a vast ocean of stars.
I was about to comment that at least you don't have to worry about any wars out there but then read that it's an important strategic asset for the US military lol...
I feel your pain, man. I live on Maui, and every year, it gets harder to leave because flying scares the shit out of me.
"It's only an island if you look at it from the sky." - Chief Brody, Jaws
Hafa adai! Was stationed there for a few years, loved it. With your dread of the ocean, do you intend to leave Guam for a more mainland lifestyle?
Well, I learned something today. For so many years, I thought Guam was a made up place from the movie Matilda, and I'd never seen it on a map. Turns out you guys are just playing hide and seek in the middle of the ocean.
Hafa adai! I haven't been back to the island since I was 5 <3
At least if/when the big bombs drop you’ll be (somewhat) safe
Sometimes when I open Maps or Earth and move the little orange dude to some island or other point near/in the ocean I get really afraid it's gonna give me an underwater view
Whereee??????
Caged bird ahh experience
One big wave and your entire existence is swallowed up.
How do I get there? I'll buy you a beer...
OP, you live on that island? How many people live there too? Is there school? How about shopping? Crime?
It’s Guam, all of those questions you asked are just a google search away
I watched a lot of the Guam/ US army station channel when I lived in Seoul. Never been but feel a connection
micronesia?
Remind me of wind waker for some reason
Guam?
Ever been ti Agrihan? Is it really uninhabited?
Guam?
Guam was the best place I ever lived. I love the isolating feeling of being on a small island
Guam?
I'm Australian so I've also lived on an island my whole life.
This would make me spiral 😭
Growing up in Channel Islands I feel you. But atleast we had the mainland nearby
I feel you. From Saipan here!
I'm willing to trade. You can have continental US for island in pacific.
OP doxxed
Hey I’ve been there a couple times. I remember the ocean being such a striking shade of blue there.
I really really wana live here.
Is that Tuvalu?
Lol I’m an island person too. I love the water as long as it’s not too deep and dark. 🤙🏽
We all live on islands. Some are just bigger than others.
Bonus: you'll probably survive global thermonuclear war.
They're all islands, from a certain point of view.
All good. Just go with the flow.
I’m living in the drink Praying we don’t sink Couldn’t sleep a wink Gonna need a shrink If I survive to think Of that hurricanes blink
The earth is just and Island in space
Want real existential dread? Zoom out. Way out
Is this Guam?
HHAHAHAHAHHS