Workplace: Paradise

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Nor is every living situation a trip to paradise. Lucey and Brzoza loved their summer on Seguin Island but note that they couldn't drink the water (they had to bring it in once a week), couldn't do laundry with the water (they laundered with captured rainwater) and didn't have a working toilet in their quarters (they had to walk 400 feet down an embankment to a compost toilet). Still, the beauty and seclusion of the island outweighed the inconveniences.

After all, for most of the year caretakers live a good life, working in houses in scenic settings that are not all that different from the comfortable middle-class existence they enjoyed before retiring. Except now the mortgage payments, property taxes and maintenance expenses are someone else's problems.