LOSE THE LINDENS...The 10 Reasons to Divorce Second Life

I know, I know, you have heard this over the years. 

You have tried to leave...
You signed onto a "outside grid"
You've looked around... ::: sigh::
You've missed your friends
You've went back to Second Life without a backwards glance

Like a unhealthy relationship you return... to the mess, to fees, to the nasty people.

My question is WHY? What attraction does it hold for you, the average virtual wanderer?

Perhaps you have not clearly seen your choices laid out ... perhaps you just cannot get the umph to make the move...

Well, here are some reasons to Lose the Lindens:

1. You will never ever EVER bicker about encroachment of 2 meters ever again.  Most opensim grids offer free to own, or free to rent parcels, housing, or regions.  You can roll your own and run your own Sims easily from your home computer, if you wish.  It gets easier and easier with each Open Sim update.

2. People are smarter -- really this is a NO Brainer.  Anyone who can figure out how to get a onto an open sim grid is already two steps ahead of most SL casual players.

3. All uploads are free -  Yes, really.  No fees to import textures, mesh, or xml files.

4. There is no sky building - why build in the sky when you have regions and regions of open land?

5. No Fees - what does it cost?   Nothing. There is no premium.  At most, a few dollars if you chose to rent a region (65,000 meters) from a sim rental company.

6. The same experience as SL - Most scripts, all textures, most physics work exactly like Second Life if not better.  The OS open source software is developed by volunteers and gets better every update.

7. Terrains and full rights - Unlike limits in terraforming, most parcels and all regions give you rights to change height and limits as well as terrain textures. Basically unheard of in SL.

8. No crowds. Really. The community is smaller, but much friendlier.

9 Freebies.  Almost everything, from castles to landscaping to mesh to skins to hair to shoes to homes is entirely free. 

10. Prim limits what is that?  The usual 117 prims per 512 meters is a way for Linden Labs to get you to buy more land. In fact, a 65,000 region has been proven to hold up to a million prims OR MORE as Ener Hax proved in 2012.  Sorry my pretties, prim limits is just an illusion