Random Ramblings - June 20th, 2008

A job ad in The Economist this week reads, in part:

Development Economist
St Helena

A self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom, St Helena is an island of 47 square miles and around 4000 people in the South Atlantic. Cape Town in South Africa is some 1700 miles distant, and the island has no airfield and a small economy mainly based around offshore employment, agriculture, fishing and tourism, with heavy reliance on UK aid.

Enjoying a quality of life almost impossible to find elsewhere in the world...

Indeed...