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06-03-2018, 09:29 AM
It's not the worst way to live for presumably 3k or less a month incl. food and beverages.
Surrounded by the ocean in upscale surroundings, always some entertainment going on, people mostly in good holiday mood.
In most major cities in the US you're living a pretty bare bones life for that money.
Red pilled euro guys tend to retire in Pattaya instead though where they bang hookers until viagra stops working.
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06-03-2018, 09:37 AM
Those cruise ships are 98-99% geriatrics. Floating nursing homes. The live-aboards are usually widows. If you’re already old and alone, I guess it’s a decent life. No place for a young or even middle aged guy.
The only close thing for young people would be semester at sea. Always regret not doing that program.
I know some retirees that cruise a lot. They did an around the world trip that was like 6 months on a smaller boat. Less amenities, but a higher class of people. Lots of exotic islands the big ships didn’t stop in.
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06-03-2018, 09:40 AM
Compared to his peers who spend most of their lives isolated in suburban neighborhoods he’s life is probably way more sociable. Also at only 64k a year for everything its not that expensive for him to live this way. Definitely, worse ways to spend your golden years.
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06-03-2018, 09:41 AM
A cruise ship might be the only reasonable way to establish a de facto micro-nation, but you'd have a hard-time talking me into living on one long term.
Of course, when I'm old and grey, I doubt I'm going to have all that much interesting in travel to "rugged" destinations.
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06-03-2018, 10:26 AM
By the time we’re old the demographic of cruising will have changed dramatically. Compared to your average nursing home even a Carnival ship is a palace. I do wonder if it will be become a more appealing option as more people start doing it.
Kinda funny concept to stick all the old people on a boat and send them seaworthy. Wasn’t that an Eskimo stereotype? Push away the useless elderly on an ice flow?
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06-03-2018, 10:56 AM
Hmm, I recognize the Travel Museum style on Choo Choo Train's writing. TM, please stop beating around the bush with your new account and post your bang stories. Thanks
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06-03-2018, 10:57 AM
Quote: (06-03-2018 09:37 AM)Choo Choo Train Wrote:
Those cruise ships are 98-99% geriatrics. Floating nursing homes. The live-aboards are usually widows. If you’re already old and alone, I guess it’s a decent life. No place for a young or even middle aged guy.
The only close thing for young people would be semester at sea. Always regret not doing that program.
I know some retirees that cruise a lot. They did an around the world trip that was like 6 months on a smaller boat. Less amenities, but a higher class of people. Lots of exotic islands the big ships didn’t stop in.
Damb the semester at sea thing actually sounds kinda cool. Do you think it get weird tho being at sea with the same people for like 5 months? If you start trying to fuck a couple girls you might just get shunned quick from the whole ships community. What do you think the quality of girls on this kind of thing are? Also how do you think black guys would do at sea?
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06-03-2018, 11:33 AM
I met a few chicks who did semester at sea once in a hostel. They were 6s. Very few hot girls are going to want to do that kind of thing. I’d forget about pussy on that type of endeavor.
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06-03-2018, 11:48 AM
I remember reading somes posts by a guy named Tynan, who was one of those Project Hollywood guys with Mystery and Neil Strauss, and he uses cruise ships as remote working locations.
http://tynan.com/cruisework
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The number one enemy of productivity is distraction, either in the form of entertainment or things like chores and phone calls which feel productive but break up the day. Cruise ships are a remarkable way to eliminate all of those things. Efficiency can be so high on a cruise ship that I schedule things like entire rewrites of major sections of Sett or the writing of a brand new book for the two-week cruise.
On a cruise ship, everything is taken care of for you. No time at all has to be allocated to cooking, choosing your meal, or to cleaning. You show up at the restaurant, in which all of the food is free, order whatever you want from the rotating menu, eat, and then immediately get up and get back to work.
When you get back to your stateroom, it has been cleaned and the bed has been made. Today there appeared, with no explanation, a big platter of fruit, which will make a great snack while working.
Wifi is present everywhere, but very expensive, ranging from twenty to seventy cents per minute, depending on which package you choose. This actually suits work very well because it's reasonable enough to commit code, look something up occasionally, post blog posts, and stay on top of emails, but it's too expensive to check Facebook compulsively or to get caught up in the dreaded Reddit -> Hacker News -> Reddit cycle.
A novel idea, worth considering even if you think it wouldn't work for you.
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06-03-2018, 01:09 PM
I'm surprised how this guy doesn't get bored of traveling on cruise ships 24/7. Even a simple activity that most older folks enjoy such as playing a round of golf, camping, playing tennis, meeting for barbecues, etc. can't really be done on a cruise ship. I would think that by cruise # xx the same cookie cutter activities and shows that all cruise ships engage in would bore a normal person to death...
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06-03-2018, 01:48 PM
L Ron Hubbard did something similar. He had his own ships and harem. He founded sea org. Very interesting to read about if you have time.
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06-03-2018, 02:45 PM
Triple G,
You seem to be forgetting that the ships do stop places where people can go outside and do a bunch of things in places they may have never been before.
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06-03-2018, 03:37 PM
How's this much different than live-aboard sailors who own 50 foot sailboats and hang out in marinas all over the world. Maybe there's something cool about having some Filipino waiter recognizing you at the lunch buffet. At least if you own your own boat you can choose where to head next and what to do. Cruise ships are just glorified resort hotels filled with fanny-pack wearing tourists.
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06-04-2018, 11:42 AM
Imagine that Love boat atmosphere.
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06-05-2018, 04:08 AM
I think they hey day for cruise ships, for young people, was in the 30s (where, from what I've read, reading between the lines, it was one of the few places you could get NSA encounters).
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06-05-2018, 02:38 PM
My mom works in senior care and retirement homes and says this is becomming very popular. Assuming someone is reasonbly heatlhy they get to travel and live in a nice environment, they have their meals prepared, house cleaning, and doctors aboard ship and because senior care facilities are so expensive for probably roughly the same price as being in some stuffy retirmenet home so I can see the appeal.
Another thing some people like to do is cruise between destinations. My folks were on a European cruise and a lot of people would stay on the boat while it cruised from Europe back to hawaii for the next season. From what they said it was very cheap
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10-13-2018, 09:20 AM
My flights to South America got messed up cause of hurricane Micheal... Then I started looked at cruises when I was bored and stuck in my hotel. You can get from Florida to Colombia in like a day and for around $500. Has anyone ever took a cruise ship to South America an then just got off? Used it like a flight? I ended up canceling all my itinerary for Uruguay an I'm gonna head down to Florida and take a cruise down to somewhere in South America... maybe take a cruise and just check out some of the more expensive Caribbean spots before heading down to South America
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