A closer look
Tristan da Cunha holds the impressive title of being the most remote inhabited archipelago on Earth, sitting stubbornly in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean about 1,500 miles away from the nearest landmass of South Africa. The island has no airstrip, meaning the only way to visit its 250 permanent residents is by embarking on a miserable six-day boat journey from Cape Town, assuming the ocean is not actively trying to swallow your vessel whole. Once you arrive, you will find a thriving community built entirely around potato farming and avoiding the rest of humanity, which honestly sounds like a millennial's ultimate retirement dream. There is exactly one grocery store, one pub, and a golf course that doubles as a cow pasture, so if you are looking to escape your annoying in-laws, this is geographically the best place on the planet to ignore their texts because there is virtually no cell service anyway
