Fifteen residents and a zero crime rate — that's what the people living on the Scottish isle of Canna are saying about their home to get you to become their new neighbour.
And so far, the response has been amazing.
The call to inject new blood and new skills into the bird sanctuary island with low-rent properties went out across the globe in October, with a deadline to apply by Friday.
Within weeks, hundreds of interested applicants responded from as far away as India, Japan, Germany and Sweden.
Of course, the chances of your family being one of two selected to dramatically increase Canna's population depends on what you've got to offer.
If you have skills in building, plumbing or gardening, for instance, consider yourself safe in the running. It would be a bonus if you had children, as nine-year-old Caroline MacKinnon might enjoy their company. (As the sole student enrolled in the island's primary school, she reportedly can't wait to have a play friend.)
"The ideal would be to get a family in with young children. Caroline is a very sociable child who will fit in with anybody," her aunt, Winnie MacKinnon, told the Reuters news agency.
Although Canna has its own post office and broadband internet access, there is no cellphone service. A doctor living on one of the neighbouring islands is known to make monthly house calls.
The invitation for residents from National Trust for Scotland, which has owned the island since 1981, advertised two four-bedroom homes for rent up to £400 a month ($865 Cdn).
The final choices for the two families will be made next spring, at which time the island hopes to have a rising rat infestation problem under control.
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