There's a retired couple from Seattle and they sold their home to make sure they
live on cruise ships like this huge when you see right here.
Because it just costs too much to live in a house.
At first sounds like this doesn't make any sense.
Cruise ships are expensive.
Let's go to some of those details.
Because these two, Angelyne and Richard Burke, they left their jobs,
they left their home, they packed up a couple of suitcases and
they went to retirement on these ships, some details of what's going on.
Because they figured that they could spend up to $135 a day to do this.
Sounds pretty good, but it's actually cheaper.
Here's the details.
Currently this year,
we have secured 86 cruise days with an average all in cost of $89 a day for
both of us is what Angela told seven news, which works out to $32,485 a year.
Which includes room food, entertainment, transportation,
gratuity, import fees and taxes.
They figured this whole thing out.
So Angela, she's a former accountant that makes some sense here.
She figured they could live their dream lifestyle thanks to all this stuff with
their savings, getting rid of that home and then just taking off on these ships.
So, it's been working out pretty well unsurprisingly.
So from 50 days around the Adriatic Sea,
seeing the sights around Europe to omega 51 day trip from Seattle to Sydney.
The couple plans to visit every corner of the globe Singapore, Italy Canada Iceland
and the Bahamas are just a few of the Burks' favorite destinations,
all of which they have reached totally by ship.
They've been having a great time.
Look at these folks, man.
These folks need to have like a, some kind of a and I want to do it yourself
type of podcast to tell people how to really live and be happy.
These two are probably happy.
[LAUGH] >> They look happy.
They look stunningly happy.
Like these are the two smartest people in America right there.
They're not even in America anymore, they're gone, they're gone,
they're in the wind.
You're never gonna catch them where they are,
the citizens of their citizens of the world.
So more about this because.
>> I was, >> Yeah.
>> I was gonna come up with some like you can make this about like the home
prices in America.
But like forget that man,
these people know what they're I haven't gone outside in like two and
half weeks, these people are just chilling on like boat decks and yeah, they're fine.
There's nothing that we can teach them living more, we're just here to learn.
>> Living more than you ever could.
So yeah, we can talk about those home prices because it is a bit of part about
this and it shows just how this devastating this whole thing is.
So, according to Zillow, the typical home value of homes in Burks'
hometown of Seattle is $984,000 and $984,863.
And the cost of homes in the area has increased 17.8% over the past year.
The average monthly cost of a 30 year fixed mortgage with a 20% down
payment in the city is about $5,034 per month or 60,408 a year.
And the woman, as I point out, this retired woman wife here,
it's pretty happy about it.
She says, we don't plan to permit live on land in the future.
Where else can you have your resort take you to different countries while relaxing
by the pool or sleeping in a comfortable bed.
So she told CNN.
And CNN is probably like, yeah, I'm gonna start saving in a particular way to make
sure that I do something like this.
Because unless you get seasick, where's the problem?
>> Yeah, no, no, it's genius.
I wanna talk about the different levels of genius here in a second.
But just quickly, the sign of the times I did the math on this.
So Jared, just told you the numbers.
So the cruise ship costs all in food.
Everything else was 32,000 a year.
Just their housing costs for the average home in Seattle is $60,000 a year.
Twice as much for a house and no food, no entertainment,
no nothing, no Cancun no, no way, no Alaska, no nothing, okay?
So, housing prices are insane that it went up 18% in one year in Seattle.
What the hell's going on?
How's it going up 18%.
It's actually the private equity companies that are buying their homes have to
explain that in a different episode.
But that's depressing.
So back to these awesome genius American heroes.
As I was looking at them guys, I'm like retired.
Like wait, like there's something wrong with this story and
then I realized what it was.
I saw their picture.
And then I went back and said, wait, wait, wait, how old are they?
And it turns out she's 53.
They never gave his age.
But right around the same age obviously.
My God, I'm 52.
They're already retired and they're gone.
They're having the time of their lives.
I got like decades left to go.
[LAUGH] I was like, wow.
Look, they're they're more creative than I am on that front, bless their hearts.
And I thought like cramped little place and stuff.
But then I started reading the stories and it turns out some of the cruises.
They didn't do the luxury ones, right?
But there's like the whole house is within the cruise ship, like a dining room,
living room, beautiful balcony where you constantly have a view of the ocean, okay?
So, it's genius on many levels.
>> The only issue that I could maybe foresee is if you're
taking cruises that like average $89 a day.
I don't know, maybe you might confront just a few problems.
Like, [LAUGH] I don't know if those are like I don't know if those are necessarily
the cruise is that you wanna relegate yourself to for the rest of your life.
But, it's still better than yeah it's still better than paying double just
to be housed somewhere and then God knows how much to eat and
drive yourself places and do everything else on top of that.
>> But also, by the way you can it provides maybe for some options.
Maybe you spend five years on the sea and seeing the world, which is amazing.
Obviously first of all, but then say you get tired of it, you're like okay,
let's go to Texas and rent for a year.
Like I'm tired of being in one place, let's go back on the cruises again.
I don't know, I don't know, maybe it's actually it provides you so much more.
Cuz look, I was thinking about car notes, car insurance, all these different things
that you have to then go to start just outside of housing things like they said
they packed a couple of suitcases and got the hell out of there and got on a boat.
Everything else was left.
Think about your daily expenses, they talked about the food and all that stuff.
So that comes included, anything about the housing thing, furniture bro, furniture
goes out, roofing issues, gut and grass cutting, maintenance of your lawn.
All these things just keep compiling his reasons why you just abandoned so
many extra things.
And you just everyone else provides it for you.
You spend at 135 a day.
>> I think one of the most admirable parts of this is that there
are people who are able to just like unplug.
Like, I mean at this point with what we all do for
a living it's hard to just put the phone down anyway.
But just to go any amount of time without like picking up Twitter,
picking up YouTube or anything else is I mean it's admirable.
I don't know that I'll ever get there.
It's hard for me to imagine like a time where I'm not glued to my phone.
But more power to these people.
I think that's great.
It's probably a lot healthier than what we do.
>> Yeah, so Brian look, I agree with you on many fronts.
I couldn't do it, right?
I don't like being stuck at sea.
And so, I feel constricted.
And so they're not they go all across the world I get it but
it's different strokes for different folks.
But it turns out Brian they actually can work from the ship.
In fact, this is not a new phenomenon.
It's just that the housing prices are so crazy that it's becoming a lot more
sensible to do this economically and that's why more people are doing it.
But there's this guy named, >> At the beginning of the pandemic,
they were different places all around the world were offering people a boatload
of money just to like move into their cities.
>> Yeah, yeah, I noticed boatload, okay?
But, [LAUGH] apparently boatloads not that much, $89 a day, okay?
But people are now working from the cruise ships.
There's there's this guy super Mario,
he's apparently been on a cruise ship for 20 years straight, okay?
So he's old school on this stuff.
And they're like whatever cruise ship he goes on,
he just immediately there's an office for him.
They all know him, right?
So there's a little like a place where he can do his computer and
all that zooming and stuff.
So he's conducting business on the cruise ship has been for two decades.
There's like mama li there's like these all these
old schoolers who've been doing it for a long time.
But one of them said, yeah, it's not as easy as you think sometimes you can't
connect like you're in Alaska and there's no cruise ships coming, right?
You're like, wait.
>> I wouldn't think it was that easy.
That was not the first thing that came to mind is how easy it would be.
Especially this guy who's been on the cruise ship for 20 years.
I cannot imagine what it was like, trying to connect in 2002.
Well, while in the middle of like in the middle of the ocean.
>> Yeah, 100%.
So, but nowadays apparently it's a little bit easier.
And they say, if you get stuck somewhere what you do, you take a flight to Miami.
Trust me, you'll find a cruise.