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This Lighthouse And Sweet Lonely Solitude Can Be Yours For $650K
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Jen Carlson
Published Aug 25, 2017
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Located just under 500 miles away from your overpriced Brooklyn studio is this entire island with a lighthouse on it, which costs less than the aforementioned closet you live in. And it's even situated in a similarly named place: Brooklin. Your bizarro life awaits.
The lighthouse—which comes furnished—is located in Maine—which is definitely having a moment right now even though no one will write a trend piece about it.
According to the listing—which doesn't even mention the two other structures that appear to be on the island—Blue Hill Bay Lighthouse is located on Green Island and is a historic landmark. The station was established in 1857, when the lighthouse was built, and discontinued in 1933. The home now features four bedrooms, a wood-burning stove, and lots of views.
"Imagine sitting on the porch of the keepers house," the listing harkens, "watching schooners come within yards of your porch... having your own private window to the world." Very private, in fact, as you probably won't have a strong enough signal to aid you in Instagramming your new bucolic life.
Please also note that none of your friends from NYC will visit you here, no matter how many times they ooh and ahh and tell you they will. This will be an incredibly lonely life, as were the lives of the lighthouse keepers that came before you (per their ghosts that still live there)... but that loneliness will come at a much cheaper price than NYC loneliness.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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