The Island No One Owns

Planet Money

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4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In Barbuda, land isn't a thing you buy. It's something you just... have. Put up a fence and it's yours. But all that might change. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:07.0	There are two ways to get to Barbuda.
0:09.0	On a seven-seater, unreliable plane, or a rocky ferry.
0:14.0	Oh my god!
0:16.0	Really rocky.
0:18.0	A ferry leaves once a day from Antigua.
0:21.0	Antigua and Barbuda are two islands that make up one country
0:24.0	and the trip takes about two hours.
0:26.0	Antigua is mountainous and touristy with about 98,000 residents.
0:31.0	That's where the government is.
0:33.0	Barbuda is flat.
0:35.0	Like flat, flat.
0:36.0	Like it looks like a penny.
0:38.0	Wow.
0:39.0	I've never seen an island that flat before.
0:41.0	You could drive across Barbuda in about 30 minutes.
0:44.0	It's rural, just about 1,000 homes, 1,500 residents.
0:47.0	Goats.
0:49.0	Probably more animals here than people.
0:51.0	Goats and sheep.
0:53.0	It's the kind of island where wild donkeys just walk into your home.
0:58.0	The houses are all like pastel, turquoise with gray, mint green with peach, peach with orange.
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