To be fair I must comment.
In my experience owning an island is far more stressful than it is stress-relieving. Managing water supply assuming salt water surrounds the island in question) electricity, supplies and repairs is not for the faint hearted. A couple decades of island ownership did provide some excellent experiences for me, but having to fly my own airplane to get close enough for a boat, doing all the maintenance and paying import duties for every little thing made it an interminable hassle. Obviously, if one can choose an island less remote than was mine does give some relief from the hassles.
Enduring the travails of an investor are vastly easier IMHO. At least one manages to make independent decisions, live with the consequences and not have much interference in doing so. Just as in an island the capital gains can be deferred indefinitely. In both cases one can follow the wise counsel of the original Malcolm Forbes, loosely paraphrased: 'One has no loss if one does not sell'. In the island case selling reflects a very illiquid market (I bought mine when it had been on the market for two years and it took a year to sell it). In the case of listed shares the sale is easy. I admit that I also have unlisted shares, which can be as illiquid as are islands. Lucky for me my unlisted shares seem to be in very high demand from properly certified investors who are already shareholders, but that is a far cry from listed shares.
In sum, the grass is always greener on the other side...
It is an excellent time to be long TSLA. I will sell nothing so defer capital gains until/unless I really want cash.
