Didn’t know this was a thing until I read the article. Anyone like cruising? Would you want to do it permanently?
I have a friend in Sarasota who is on a cruise ship almost every waking minute. She’s almost never on land.
would I stop being sea-sick after about a decade?
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I’ve heard of it and some people seem to really like cruises but it wouldn’t float my boat.
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Not paying taxes is a big attraction and probably cheaper than an old peoples home
Well not for US nationals, and then there is healthcare to consider. What happens of you need an MRI and you are sailing between Chile and Tahiti.
The newer ships are fitted out with everything you get in a landbased hospital. In fact that is one of the selling points
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@slammer, I doubt they accept Medicare.
“Food and soft drinks are included in residents’ monthly fee. So is alcohol at dinner, Wi-Fi and medical visits (but not procedures or medicines).”
“Petterson says 80% of Villa Vie Odyssey’s owners are from the US and Canada, with Australia and New Zealand a close second.”
Well for the Swiss if you gave up your residency (to avoid taxation) you’d have to secure health insurance elsewhere.
Apparently, when there’s extra helpings of ice cream at dinner on these cruises, it means someone else has died and they need to clear out a freezer for the body.
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They have usually enough morgue space for quite a few stiffs.
And there is also the burial at sea option with the premium upgrade for the viking funeral package.
Apparently they had the ice cream parties when the ship’s morgue is full.
Checking into a bit more they don’t do it any more as they have bigger morgues -needed for the four to ten people who die on longer cruises.
On Polar cruises, they just leave the bodies outside.
Don’t even ask what they do with bodies on commercial flights. You really don’t want to know.
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I know from personal observation that if you pop your clogs on a cruise you get your ass frozen sitting on a chair so that they just need to wheel you from board in a wheelchair
If you are cruising full time and not resident of a country, how would you get health insurance and/or travel insurance?
I also remember reading that healthcare on board a cruise ship is insanely expensive (more than the US).
I was surprised that there are people in Switzerland that live in campings as a permanent residence. I thought it’s not possible due to climate.
I knew someone who lived in such. It was essentially a ‘trailer park’ with prefab homes on them. They usually had wood-burning or pellet burning heaters inside, so they were quite warm in the winter.
There are a few common that have ‘international’ insurance. Alliance for one.
It does make a lot of the campsites here a bit strange to stay at for a few days as you get a lot of looks from these people that make you feel you are invading their homes.
It’s a different atmosphere to the care-free holiday feeling you get at other sites abroad.