| Porthole 11 May 22

AN American couple is now living aboard a cruise ship, after calculating the arrangement made “more financial sense” than living on land.

After crunching the numbers, the pair, who are only in their 50s, realised they could live the rest of their lives hopping from cruise ship to cruise ship for less than USD$30 per day.

Early last year, the wife began to calculate at what age they could afford the venture, and incorporating the sale of their house in the blue-chip city of Seattle, realised it was far sooner than initially thought.

The couple has been living the life of seafaring nomads for 12 months now, and in a declaration which their friends may one day use to taunt them with, the couple told 7Life “we do not plan to permanently live on land in the future” – let’s hope their accounting is sound!