Retirees Sold Their Homes to Live on a Cruise Ship Forever... Then It DUMPED 200 of Them in Cambodia

Retirees Sold Their Homes to Live on a Cruise Ship Forever... Then It DUMPED 200 of Them in Cambodia

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Carroll Kay — Retired In Mexico

Carroll Kay — Retired In Mexico

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👉 carrollkay.shop On a Monday morning in October, a notice went up on a cruise ship docked in Cambodia: every resident had to be off by two in the afternoon. About 7 hours to pack a life. The ship wasn't sinking. There was no fire. It just ran out of money. "Don't Sell the House Yet," my rent-first plan for a year in Mexico before you sell a thing: carrollkay.shop I've lived in Ajijic on Lake Chapala for 15 years on Social Security, and this story hit our Thursday breakfast table hard. Retirees sold their homes for a lifetime at sea on the Villa Vie Odyssey, then came months of money asks, a fuel bill that tripled, and 203 passengers put ashore in Sihanoukville. I tell what happened, why a "lifetime" cabin is a contract and not a deed, what the residents stand to lose, and what it changed in how I look at my own rented casita. If you're thinking about retiring abroad or retiring in Mexico, this is about the one thing worth keeping: a way back. Would you sell your house for a dream like that ship? Tell me in the comments, and where you're watching from. Subscribe for more real stories from an expat who stayed 15 years and still tells it straight. 200 people found out their home had an end date written in somebody else's handwriting. #RetireInMexico #RetiringAbroad #ExpatLife

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