A deserted island Newcomers receive a monthly allowance of 700 euros, free water and electricity, and free housing
In 19, on the Greek island of Antikythera (hereinafter referred to as Anti Island), some fishermen were fishing in an unknown ocean, and they wanted to catch their nets according to custom, but they accidentally found a wreck containing hundreds of works of art, jewelry, ** marble and bronze, including the Andy Kithera machine that caused a sensation at the time, and its value even exceeded the Mona Lisa's paintings.
Scientists mistook the Andy Kithira machine for a computer or a machine because it was corroded by the sea, leaving only three parts, but this sophisticated manufacturing method continued until the 14th century.
However, later researchers learned through 3D printing that this is not an ordinary clock, this is a very high-end clock, which is engraved with Greek calendars and texts, with more than 30 gears on it, which can accurately show the position of the sun and moon, and can accurately judge every solar and lunar eclipse, and the minute hand will also accurately point to every planet in the solar system. All the mysteries have puzzled Andy Kithira machines for more than a hundred centuries, but there are still no answers.
No one has ever been interested in this deserted island of Andy, but with the advent of Andy Kithira machines, experts and scholars from different disciplines have found many unknown things on this island: the Mediterranean, the Aegean, the Ionian Sea, and all three places have very strange weather, and the temperature and wind direction can change in different places. Dust from the Sahara Desert, ashes from Etna from Sicily in Italy, and embers from wildfires in Canada have all been seen on the island of Andy.
To address this anomaly, the European Union has allocated $20 million to set up a climate research group, and 30 scientists have set up Europe's first dust cloud laboratory on Andy Island, with the aim of finding a way to stop the warming of the climate and make it the "world's largest climate site".
Andy Island is the border of the Greek Peloponnese and Crete, with an area of about 20 square kilometers, in the Bronze Age, Cretan fishermen landed on the island twice a year to hunt migratory birds, because of the barren land, sparse plants, and unpredictable weather, so the island is rarely inhabited, after the invention of the astronomical clock, the population here reached 880 people, but over time, the population of this island has decreased to 24 people in 2019.
Greece launched a broadband internet project in 2001, but 90% of the country's parliamentarians voted against it, because the inhabitants of the island are far from meeting the requirements for commercial communications, and it costs nearly 20 million euros to lay an underwater cable alone, and it was not until 2016 that the European Union established an experimental base on the island of Andy, and Greece allocated a submarine cable to connect the island.
Due to the scarcity of residents and the lack of transportation, the island's water supply is mainly dependent on rainfall and photovoltaic power, and the roads were built in 2016, except for a port that can accommodate a small boat, the rest is bare volcanic rock and plants are as sparse as desert.
Before the 21st century, there were also people who wanted to develop tourism, but because the cost was too high and the infrastructure was too poor, many people gave up, and some simply moved to Crete.
However, to everyone's surprise, Greece began to build infrastructure on the islands under the persuasion of Europe, and repaired all the networks, roads and reservoirs at once, and they were even more surprised that the European Union signed a 99-year lease with the island's residents, which is 210,000 euros a year, not including the cost of food and lodging for the employees. As a result, a very interesting thing happened on Andy Island: the people who were supposed to move wanted to go back, but the people who stayed behind were turned away on the grounds of "disloyalty", and in order to allow more people to join in, the people on the island exchanged the word "loyalty".
In May 2018, the island began to recruit new residents, and the initial requirement was 500 euros per month for each family of three, and the house must be guaranteed to be 30 square meters per family, including water, electricity, sanitation and other expenses, as well as all transportation and purchase costs. At first, there were a lot of people who asked, but when it came to work, most of them gave up, and there was no income on Andy Island other than that of a fisherman**.
In addition, they offer a large number of job opportunities, including fishing boats and yachts purchased with their own property, more than 100 workers are hired a month to maintain them, and in order to create a more sustainable tourism industry, they have also launched a "tree planting bonus" program, where newcomers can get an additional bonus of at least 100 euros for planting ten large trees.
There are more than 50 tourists on Andi Island, including 17 people from 5 families, 15 people from 2 families in India, 15 people from 2 families in Morocco, and 15 people from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, and Greece have also held a three-month language course.
At the beginning of the coronavirus, everyone thought that the tourism industry in Andy Island would be affected, but unexpectedly, there were still many wealthy Europeans who came here with their families, and although the living conditions here were not good, they could stay here for five months.
Today, the island's residents are still recruiting new immigrants, and the "village chief" Lyles said: "We welcome all those who are loyal to Greece and loyal to the island, and after English training, there will be subsidies, and younger ones are naturally better."