Brit who sold own life on eBay and bought remote tropical island revealed only thing he misses about UK

A Brit who sold off pretty much every aspect of his life on eBay and used the money to go and live on a tropical island did end up missing one main thing about the UK.

Ian Usher had been living in Australia when a divorce left him reckoning he was pretty sick of the life he had, so he decided to sell it all.

He sold his house and stuck all of his possessions (even his job) up for auction on eBay, then used the money to buy a deserted island in the Caribbean.

Living off the coast of Panama, Ian had to do without running water or electricity and had to grow a lot of his food himself but had 'no regrets' about selling off his old life.

During a trip to London he met a woman named Vanessa, and they hit it off well enough for her to join him on his remote island.

Ian Usher's life on the island was the subject of a Ben Fogle documentary (Channel 5)

In 2015 he sold the island and the couple went travelling around the world for years, Ian's last update came in 2021 where he and Vanessa had set themselves up in France.

When Vanessa joined Ian on his remote Caribbean island she missed 'a London-style cappuccino', while he admitted there were a couple of things he missed about his former life too.

Of course he missed his family back in the UK, would have liked 'a better internet connection' and lamented the loss of his jet-ski, but all in all he was rather content with the years he lived on a remote island for.

Ian did say that he missed 'an evening out with family and friends at a good English pub on a Friday night'.

That's rather understandable, all things considered, even if there's the desire to go and live on a remote island to get away from it all.

His life on the island wasn't entirely self-sufficient, but he could get by without electricity or running water (Vanessa Anderson)

During his life on the deserted island in the Caribbean Ian would get people to house-sit for him whenever he travelled away.

As for keeping himself alive, he enjoyed the chance to grow much of his own food while he had enough money to buy the rest, with local fishermen sometimes coming to visit him and sell fresh produce.

He also kept chickens on the island, but let them roam free so their eggs could be 'totally organic'.

When he wasn't tending to his food production the bloke was able to live a life of leisure, saying he could go and relax on the beach or have fun snorkelling through the reefs around his island.