New Retirement Oceanfront Real Estate
Well, kiddies, it’s 2007, and as the Baby boom generation begins to search for tropical retirement paradise, it’s discovering several problems:
- Hurricanes are growing significantly more powerful due to Global Warming, which scientists increasingly agree is caused by all that carbon the boomers pumped into the atmosphere while they were getting rich.
- Because getting an insurance payout or help from FEMA now requires a lawsuit, this is not the decade to invest in property susceptible to earth, wind, fire, water, or any other type of damage that might actually require a payout to repair.
- Selling the house, buying a million-dollar RV, and travelling the continental forty-eight is a bit passe. It’s also dangerous, considering that Yellowstone’s supervolcano is overdue to obliterate North America.
So, what’s a guy in search of oceanfront retirement property to do?
Floating Oceanfront Property
If you can’t compete with hurricanes, dodge ‘em. Buy a condo on some floating real estate.
On the new cruise ship condos, you have your choice of property, from small studios to humongous 3,700-square foot, 5 bedroom, 5.5 bath penthouses with every conceivable amenity. Besides being able to steer clear of hurricanes and supervolcanoes, your retirement home will dock in about every major port on the planet.
Right now, The World of Residensea is the only floating condo sailing, but, if you’ve got between one and ten million dollars to spend *cough* *gag* *choke*, here are three other sources of floating condo properties which are in various stages of preparation:
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February 13th, 2007 at 10:04 am
What are the chances, that you and I will have a condo on the same boat?
February 13th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Joe’s Wife thinks about Zero, unless she happens to be the first “to go”. The thought of a being on a boat that big makes her want to cry, PLUS she doesn’t like to be put on a schedule when it comes to relaxing.
February 13th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Pete: I agree with Jodi…chances are looking pretty slim. Even if I talked Jodi into it, we still have three kids to put through college in a few years, so that $10 million five-bedroom floating property is looking less and less likely to be in our future.
Send us a postcard, though! ;-)
February 13th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
So much for cocktails at sunset.
I couldn’t do it either. I have forty acres in central Illinois, and I count the days till about mid April when the hummingbirds return. What a pleasure to be awakened in the morning by the hum of those wings flapping as they feed. And then watching them during the day as the buzz from one feeder to the next. Besides I am happy with the paddle boat on one pond and the canoe on the other. And with eight grandkids, I would miss them to much.