If you live in a remote community, finding a partner is often hampered by a lack of options. Hannah Ross has been speaking to residents of Lord Howe Island, which sits 600km off the NSW coast.
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00:00Dating here on Lord Howe Island is a numbers game.
00:06The remote community has a permanent population of 400 people, so if you're in your 20s and
00:12looking for love, there's around 30 people in your age group.
00:16For single Islanders, it's a bit of a challenge.
00:18Single when I came.
00:20Still single.
00:21Still single.
00:22Yeah.
00:23It's hard, actually.
00:24Yeah, we're a small community, and there's more girls than boys here on the island.
00:28So it's like an 80-20 ratio, so it's hard.
00:31You don't want to cut the grass with your friends.
00:34Because there's not many places where to go here, and if you go for dinner, so you decide
00:40to date this guy, and you go for dinner, you want to find your neighbor there, or your
00:47workmate, or always somebody that you know.
00:50The next day, the whole island knows that you're dating.
00:53If you're a single person, you come here with the expectation that you're going to either
00:56meet someone, or you're here just living a casual life, with people coming in, going,
01:03and just have a good time.
01:05Local-wise, it's hard because I've known them all my life.
01:08They're like my brothers and sisters, so in that scheme, I don't really tend to date locals.
01:13There's plenty of fish on the mainland, but here, there's only skim fish.
01:18Would you like to find love out here?
01:19Maybe even stay?
01:20Yeah, totally.
01:21I'm coming back next season, and I really hope I find my person.
01:25Yeah.
01:26Because there's so many love stories that have come out of the island.