Would you go to IO?

Depends on how much I knew going into it. If I knew it was "anything goes" the way it is on the colony, I likely wouldn't go. An unregulated party sounds great (especially when you get paid for it), but I don't have enough faith in humanity to believe people would control themselves in that situation.

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If the accommodations were a little better, I would. When Sean Connery was chasing that guy it looked like a prison. The sleeping spaces for people were small and cage-like and the cafeteria looked like crap. It's quite different from the bar scenes.

Upgrade the rooms and food service to at least the level of a decent hotel (not necessarily a luxury hotel, just maybe a Marriot Courtyard or even a Fairfield) and I'd do it.

It's no wonder people spent their downtime in the bar and sought out drugs.

They need 3 changes:

* Better sleeping quarters
* Better food service
* Convert enough of the greenhouse to growing marijuana

If they did that, my only question would be 'where do I apply?'

I wouldn't myself, but some people have been doing this sort of thing since forever.

For the right money, people will move to frigid Alaska & the northwestern US/Canada, or to Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East deserts to work in oil industry.

As for claustrophobia, imagine being in the Navy and living on a submarine. Or on a space station.

The problem is that you will have to sleep a year to get there and then sleep a year to get back. So, that's at least 3 years of your life wasted.

I work within a specialist law enforcement role now and the idea of being a patrolman In an off world mining facility sounds rather interesting if somewhat mundane (realistically you'd be dealing with drunks, petty theft and breach of station Byelaws... I imagine.)

Still easy for a young man without any commitments.

A year on IO plus a year to get there and a year back, so three years