Don't like the life you've got? Why not try a virtual one?

http://secondlife.com/

Ok, do it's probably old news to most of you out there, but incase you've been hiding in an underground shelter protecting yoursleves from nuclear fallout and have only just surfaced to the year 2008, then you won't have a clue what I'm talking about.

Virtual lives are the nearest thing we get to our "real earth" lives being what we always wanted them to be. You can create everything yourself, create a new you, be a doctor, a lawyer, marry the most popular guy on the block, buy that ocean front property you've always dreamed of & build your perfect home. But as I found a couple of weeks ago, you still need money to buy happiness in the virtual world. Yes, you need to purchase your virtual land, purchase your virtual clothes & the more money you spend the trendier you will be.

As an article stated on the USA today website "Large swathes of undeveloped online property, some bearing an uncanny resemblance to a palm-studded West Coast beachfront idyll, are selling for up to $550 an acre." "Second Lifers are free to think big, and many do, so Linden (the creators behind Second Life) this spring began offering the ultimate prize for the acquisitive — the private virtual island. The going price: $980 up front and $195 a month to maintain.

Hhmmm... seems I don't have what it takes to even make it big in the virtual world. And that is money...and lots of it.