My Story:
When I first joined SL, I fell ijn love with it, I got myself a family (Mother, Father and Sister), bought my first block of land on the mainland and set myself up learning how to build...
Over time, I increased my land size to 1/4 sim, my friends and family lived in ajoining parcels, and we had over 1/2 the sim...
We all had a few friends as tenants, and we only charged them to give us pocket money to spend.
Things were great, all our dreams were coming to be realised
Then along came a Brothel and opened up in the same sim...
While I have nothing against brothels or the people that work in them, it shattered us as we like our privacy and love doing what we want without being bothered too much, but this arriving on the scene changed all that (I won't go into the things that happened)
Anyway, we then saw that there was a chance to get ourselves our own private little islands (openspaces) - we had looked at all options, and the openspace sims are the only thing we can afford ($75 is a LOT of money to us, we are just average people with average everyday jobs)
Because we value our privacy this was the perfect choice for us to make even tho it put a bit of a strain on our finances..
So after lots of saving up, selling all our lands (for no profit) we contacted a wonderful lady who set us up with 2 openspace sims way out away from everyone else, and so I, family and friends (about 10 of us in total) all packed up and moved to out new homes..
We then started setting up the islands to how we wanted them to be.. (I will admit freely, that we realised what they were "intended" for, but we thought with careful management we would not put any excess load on the servers by just setitng up homes for us to live in on both islands)
We now have 2 Beautiful Island that we call home, they are our dreams and our life.. - Our few friends are still with us paying a small amount to live with us which gives us a little pocket money to spend on the things we need.
Now it looks like we may lose everything... There is no way on this planet we can afford to buy a proper Island, if we go back to the mainland and build there we will lose our privacy... - $125 US is $212 in my money at the current exchange rates, it might not be much to a lot of people, but it is a LOT to me...
Ok, I may be blamed because I am not using the island for what it was intended, but we by no means abuse what we have, I even take scripts out of the things I am building as soon as I don't need them any more.
We do have more scripts running today and tomorrow than normal, and that is because of a small haloween party we are having tomorrow evening, but as soon as the party is over everything not needed will be deleted.
I saw and still see nothing wrong in having a dream, a dream that we on our islands love dearly...
What to do?? - I don't know, I really wish I did, I have had basically no sleep since this news came to light, wondering what I am to do, how I am going to keep my friends, my family all together and have the life we all desire on SL...
Thank you for reading..
