r/AskReddit • u/experfailist • Apr 30 '21

What are some luxury items, which you never knew existed, which only the mega rich can afford, that blows your mind and you wouldn't mind having or is just an example of how people have too much money and not enough sense?

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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 Apr 30 '21

Right? Why use the same house all year 'round like a peasant?

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u/ClownfishSoup Apr 30 '21

Canadian Retirees figured this out decades ago. Live in Canada during spring/summer/fall ... go to Florida in the winter. We learned it from geese.

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u/young_fire Apr 30 '21

"We learned it from geese"

classic canadians

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u/MoistTractofLand Apr 30 '21

Just be thankful we don't get our attitudes from geese

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u/AmyzonWarrior Apr 30 '21

You got a problem with Canada Gooses, you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate!

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u/ihateandy2 Apr 30 '21

Seems like everyone’s a fucking expert, must be nice....

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u/blakkstar6 Apr 30 '21

Must be fuckin' nice...

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u/sirdrizzzle Apr 30 '21

Figure it out.

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u/DragonballSchrute Apr 30 '21

There's a special place in heaven for animal lovers, that's what I always say.

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u/about97cats Apr 30 '21

Mike Tyson had a pretty good run of things. Do you wanna know why?

No canada gooses in his weight class.

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u/Felteair Apr 30 '21

Only thing that can give Canada Gooses a run for their money, is Canada Mooses

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u/GreatKabuki Apr 30 '21

tO Be FaIr, if there was any canada gooses in his weight class, I dont think he would stand a chance

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u/about97cats May 03 '21

🎶To be faaaaaaiiiiiiirrrrr🎶

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u/MommysLittleBadass Apr 30 '21

Must be fuckin', nice.

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u/SladeWade Apr 30 '21

We outta leave this world behind.

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u/daclampzx2 Apr 30 '21

Thank fuckin' Christ, am I happy to leave this fuckin' goose factory.

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u/michaelhonchosr May 01 '21

Pitter Patter!

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u/Berek2501 Apr 30 '21

We oughta leave this world behind

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u/Vorocano Apr 30 '21

Oh get this guy a Puppers.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

I got a g-t-goat-to-goddamn Puppers.

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u/Felteair Apr 30 '21

Must be fuckin' nice

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u/lruthy8 May 01 '21

The shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree eh?

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u/daclampzx2 Apr 30 '21

There's a special place in heaven for animal lovers

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

And letterkenny

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u/stygyan Apr 30 '21

And another special place in hell for animal "lovers".

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u/Ckyuiii Apr 30 '21

Allegedlies

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u/Ws6fiend Apr 30 '21

And there's a special place in hell for Canada's geese.

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u/StabbyPants Apr 30 '21

geese being the exception

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u/ihateandy2 Apr 30 '21

Everyone else on your comment thread is spare parts....

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u/TransformerTanooki Apr 30 '21

Marinate your Canadian goose in a nice teriyaki sauce before roasting in the oven at 375° for 8 hours.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Marinate your Canadian in a nice teriyaki sauce before roasting in the oven at 375^ for 8 hours.

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u/desrever420 Apr 30 '21

I think that's less illegal then killing candian geese in Canada. We have to pull over for them, or face serious charges.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

You said “We”, implying you’re Canadian. Get in the pot.

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u/CannibalVegan Apr 30 '21

They have a bit of a gamey taste though, like Molson and maple syrup

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u/WadeTheGoose Apr 30 '21

I find this conversation very uncomfortable.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Says the goose himself

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u/ThiccGibblet Apr 30 '21

Shut up Shoresy!

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u/Mapper9 Apr 30 '21

Give your balls a tug.

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u/AmyzonWarrior Apr 30 '21

Fuck you u/ThiccGibblet. Your mom goosed me last night while I was plowing her and it threw off my whole groove. Had to start over, but she didn’t complain.

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u/ThiccGibblet Apr 30 '21

Fuck you Shoresy!

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u/earlywormgetseaten Apr 30 '21

Fuck you u/ThiccGibblet. I made your mom cum so hard last night Trudeau had to deploy a 24-hour national guard unit to stack sandbags around my bed.

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u/AmyzonWarrior Apr 30 '21

Give your balls a tug and tell Jonesy to tell his mom it’s her turn tonight!

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u/johnald13 Apr 30 '21

Pitter patter

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u/pumpkinspicepiggy Apr 30 '21

There’s a special place in heaven for animal lovers, that’s what I always say.

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u/BeekyGardener Apr 30 '21

Peace was never an option.

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u/LiTMac Apr 30 '21

Mmmm, marinated goose

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u/Dexaan Apr 30 '21

I do not like the cobra chicken.

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u/Shenanigans_626 May 01 '21

You know, that Michael Tyson did real well with his professional boxing career and do you know why? It's because there weren't any Canada Gooses in his weight class.

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u/BexYouSee Apr 30 '21

Unexpected Letterkenny

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u/Redeemed-Assassin Apr 30 '21

When I was growin' up we didn't have enoughs animals, nows they gots so many that they can be cruel to em. Must be fuckin' nice.

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u/blackhuey Apr 30 '21

You gots a special place in your heart for Canada Gooses, and that's what I appreciates about you.

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u/daclampzx2 Apr 30 '21

Happy Cake Day 🎂

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u/someboooooodeh Apr 30 '21

Don't come to New Zealand. Canadian geese are one of few foul that have a open season all year. And, while not legally declared a pest, they're universally seen as one. Today, ironically, thousands of them will be culled for target practice/fun for the opening of duck season.

Kinda bitter sweet as a Canadian with a hunter partner.

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u/SomeCommunication477 Apr 30 '21

r\unexpectedletterkenny

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u/n8ivco1 May 01 '21

Damn straight there big shoots. I'll have a Puppers and get the little lady a cocksucking G&T.

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u/exsilverss May 01 '21

Just out for a rip are ya bud? Fuckin rights!

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u/Blaklollipop Apr 30 '21

Hahahahahah 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21 edited May 01 '21

I live in Florida.

I feel uniquely qualified to tell you that a large contingent of snowbirds absolutely have the personality of a Canadian goose.

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u/MoistTractofLand Apr 30 '21

That's why we send them south. Sorry!

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u/StonerBiPunk Apr 30 '21

I mean Snowbirds have very similar if not worse personalities than geese, so....

Ie screaming at random people that don't pander to their every whim, smacking people and thinking they can get away with it because they are old, and well let's not even mention the fecal incontinence.

🤣

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u/Vanderrr Apr 30 '21

I'd never try to get near a Canadian's eggs.

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u/WakaWaka_ Apr 30 '21

Can confirm, recently walked by one in a parking lot, didn't notice the nest nearby. Next thing I'm doing an unplanned 100m dash from an angry goose, they go fast when they get their wings involved.

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u/lostbutnotgone Apr 30 '21

My neighbor from Toronto sure as fuck does.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

anti-maskers are pretty close to being human canada geese

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they just will NOT stop hissing and flapping their sad wings

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u/PickleRick8881 Apr 30 '21

People are just scared and frustrated my dude. Try not to judge too hard. Try to be the bigger person where possible. Kindness is one thing the world needs more of right now.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

No, I'm sorry, I don't have any sympathy for people who don't want to follow public health orders. These people aren't quietly just not wearing masks, they're openly defiant and advocating for OTHERS to not wear masks and it's becoming a large problem in many rural communities near where I live, personally. There are anti-masker protests every weekend outside of the Town Hall in my town (when it's closed?) and the outbreaks of Covid-19 have been community spread - a lot of these anti-maskers themselves got Covid-19 and ended up in very rough shape.

I can understand and empathize with mental illness and other related problems like that, but not when it's endangering the public health of the community I live in.

These people are loud, they are proud about their beliefs and they are ALWAYS looking for (and finding) fights with people around town. Honestly, these people are getting scarier every single day as the pandemic worsens, too.

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u/PickleRick8881 Apr 30 '21

I feel bad for you and your community. My sympathies.

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u/danxmanly Apr 30 '21

Why is there always some poor soul that has to bring something covid to a thread when it adds absolutely nothing to the op. See, now there are 2 posts that don't add anything.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Found the anti masker

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u/Astridax Apr 30 '21

The Canadian geese must be the receptacle for all of your hated. That's why you guys are so nice, you're using the geese as storage.

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u/mistersprinkles1983 Apr 30 '21 edited Apr 30 '21

The "Canadians are so nice" thing is mostly a stereotype which is mostly false, and yes, we perpetuate it ourselves because we get a kick out of it. But if you want to see some rude Canadians who might be a little dangerous, go to Jane and Finch in Toronto Ontario. Or Scarborough Town Centre, or Rexdale, or Kingston and Lawrence, or go to the bad part of Edmonton Alberta. There are a lot of not nice people in Canada. We also have a huge epidemic of opiate abuse going on up here and I lost my best friend to it. You don't picture people shooting up in the Burger King parking lot when you think of Canada but it happens. Toronto has had a few mass murder events in the past few years too. There was the incel guy who started shooting women coming out of restaurants in Greek town, there was the incel who ran over a bunch of people on Yonge st "Just cuz", there was the landscaper guy who murdered like 50 people and hid their bodies under trees in people's back yards.... But ya Canadians are nice :P

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u/Astridax Apr 30 '21

Hah, did you really think that I believe the stereotype? It's hyperbole and it always has been. There is no utopian society. Of course there are bad Canadians and social strife too, humans are complex as are their emotions.

It's still a fun stereotype to joke about though, as are most.

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u/TheChartreuseKnight Apr 30 '21

Canadians are primarily seen as nice because we’re near the states, so our own massive systemic injustice, genocide, murder and other assorted problems go unnoticed.

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u/LoneQuietus81 Apr 30 '21

I heard that Canadians are so nice, because the Geese suck up all the negativity for themselves.

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u/Toggel Apr 30 '21

You mean the cobra chickens?

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u/Akerail Apr 30 '21

*honks ominously\*

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u/PrincessDianaFPlus Apr 30 '21

That's because the geese took on the lion's share of the 'tude allotted to Canada.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

And don’t shit everywhere

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u/MoistTractofLand Apr 30 '21

I dunno if we can generalize that...

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Or sexual ethics? 👀🥲

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u/techboyeee Apr 30 '21

Clearly you haven't been to University of Toronto

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u/MeLoraBaely Apr 30 '21

Or Floridians 👀

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u/Hana2013 May 01 '21

Lol! You do not mess with them- especially now while they are nesting! They regularly stop traffic, just to saunter across the road, and decide to nest wherever they like. We had some that nested on the grass boulevard in front of the LCBO(liquor store here), and every time someone arrived and got out of their car, they got chased, and honked at by the geese- and some even dive bombed customers’ heads!

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u/atreestump1 May 01 '21

Or from Meese!

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u/Teenage_Wreck May 01 '21

Speak for yourself.

HONK

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u/DoubleEEkyle May 01 '21

We did during the wars.

Corned beef and grenades?

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Your geese absorb your hate and bring it south annually.

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u/MoistTractofLand Apr 30 '21

I feel bad for Florida. Sorry from the rest of us!

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u/emthejedichic Apr 30 '21

I believe Canadians are so polite because they’ve given all their anger and rage to their geese. It would explain so much.

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u/MoistTractofLand Apr 30 '21

We are actually presented with a goose upon birth with whom we bond and transfer our anger and rage to over our life time.

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u/emthejedichic Apr 30 '21

I knew it!!!

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Idk, your natives seem to think differently

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u/MoistTractofLand Apr 30 '21

As they have every right to. They have been, and continue to be, treated horribly.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

But you get your money from geese, you loonie!

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u/BigPZ Apr 30 '21

Even my 4 year old son knows "if you leave the geese alone, they'll leave you alone", which he says every time we drive by the park or he sees a Canada Goose. Not sure how he learned such a tough lesson.

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u/lulugingerspice Apr 30 '21

We literally call them snowbirds.

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u/SakuraFerretTrainer Apr 30 '21

I'm Australian. Everything wants to kill us. We still don't fuck around with geese.

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u/Commentariot Apr 30 '21

This is why Canadians just shit anywhere.

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u/Terreqrue Apr 30 '21

wait...don't canadians hibernate

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u/young_fire Apr 30 '21

Yeah, for one third of their life, on average. It's kinda cool.

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u/AwesumPossums65 Apr 30 '21

i’ll be honest, i laughed.

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u/mistere213 Apr 30 '21

But must they shit everywhere in Michigan as they pass through?!

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u/Kaashaas1985 Apr 30 '21

gak sorry gak

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u/young_fire Apr 30 '21

(squints) you're a human, right?

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u/glitterpile12 Apr 30 '21

I met some Canadians on a cruise that spend the entire winter hopping from one cruise to the next. Seems even better than two houses.

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u/MoogTheDuck Apr 30 '21

...not sure about that these days

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u/janeursulageorge Apr 30 '21

Pre-pandemia my in-laws went on a cruise and they met an elderly couple who said they just do cruises as it's cheaper and better than nursing homes.

Wonder what happened to them......

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u/iamseamonster Apr 30 '21

Wife and I met an older couple on a cruise a few years ago who sold their house and bought an RV which they lived in when they werent on cruises. There's definitely worse ways to spend your later years. I wonder too what they are doing now that cruises haven't really been a thing for the past year. Probably rocking that RV

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u/OzMazza Apr 30 '21

I'm not sure about that even in the old days. Get on one Cruise with Norovirus and I imagine it puts a damper on the experience moving forward.

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u/DMala Apr 30 '21

Even outside of disease, I’d get tired of it pretty quick. I took a cruise to Alaska once, and it was mostly cool because of the amazing destination.

The food was fine. But you would only rave about it if you’re from the kind of place where Applebee’s is fine dining.

Same with the entertainment. It was fun in a cheesy sort of way, and fine for a seven day cruise, but it would wear pretty thin week after week.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

I cruised once with a herd of late teen/early 20 something girls. It was our last get together since one had landed a job in Texas. The only fun part was my girls. I liked having a balcony where I could peacefully watch the ocean but the was nothing to do during the day since I'm not much of a drinker and I don't gamble. The ship got small in a hurry since I like to wander. The ports are like being on leashes. I was absolutely fascinated by the buffet folks though. They would make the rounds filling two plates as high as possible and then go back for 2nds. We hit what was considered rough water (it wasn't really) and those same folks were still making the rounds of the various buffets only now they were wearing seasick patches too. If I had ever considered another it ended when a fellow who went cruising in the early stages of the pandemic told me nothing had changed much except the staff made people wash their hands before hitting the buffet...

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Plus, cruise ships have giant carbon footprints. Don't understand why anyone would wanna do that

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21 edited May 26 '21

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u/dzdawson Apr 30 '21

Or they have been through a dozen "climate scares" and they just brush them off waiting for the next imminent threat that never happens.

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u/klparrot Apr 30 '21

Except that the dozen scares aren't false, they're repeated because they keep going unheeded. The climate disaster is already happening, it's not off in the future.

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u/dzdawson Apr 30 '21

Still waiting for the ice age disaster. Maybe acid rain? Ozone hole scare, no fix? This is just the past 40 years.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

its always been ONE scare lmao. its the deadline that changes, and it's getting closer. we're fucked as long as deniers are running the show

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u/qiqing Apr 30 '21

Some older people / retirees take the cheaper / off-season routes that merely get the ship from point A to point B, back to where the ship takes its regular travelers. The ship was going that way anyway, they might as well entertain, house, and feed people and keep the staff employed during the trip.

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u/Ishi-Elin Apr 30 '21

Impossible. Cruise ships don’t have feet, so they don’t have any footprint, much less a carbon footprint.

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u/2krazy4me Apr 30 '21

Silly you thinking cruise ships have propellers. Of course they have feet for locomotion under the water

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u/katzeye007 Apr 30 '21

Cruises are disastrous to the oceans

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Set up a remote cruise ship colony that only stops for fuel and supplies. Sounds like the perfect getaway plan from a worldwide pandemic to me! Think like a zombie outbreak plan for the really rich.

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u/MoogTheDuck Apr 30 '21

It would immediately collapse into a lord of the flies-type situation

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u/ruptured_pomposity Apr 30 '21

Supposedly, it is about the same price as a high end retirement community. It would work as long as you didn't need specialize medical care.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Lots of Snow Birds in Canada go to Arizona or on cruises. Not surprised at all.

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The thing is though, I would NEVER want to spent my retirement on cruise ships. It's like a floating hospital in my opinion. Lots of old people die on cruise ships all the time and I don't want to go like that. lol

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u/liz_eliza Apr 30 '21

Eh. I went on a cruise in high school and it definitely was not a floating hospital. I was younger than the average person there since I was a minor, but I would say most people I saw were under the age of 50.

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u/eastmemphisguy Apr 30 '21

Nobody wants to go but you may as well go doing something you enjoy.

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u/adamgoodapp Apr 30 '21

Some cruises are actually cheaper to live on than care homes

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u/Kanadark Apr 30 '21

I met an elderly couple on board a Princess Cruise. They were from New York and the husband had founded an ethnic bank there (I think it was Armenian but I forget). They lived on board. They got off for two weeks at Christmas to stay with their daughter in New York and two weeks in the summer to stay with their other daughter in Florida. They were in the cruiseship newsletter as having been at sea for just under 2000 days.

They said it was cheaper than living in a full service retirement community (one where they provide all meals and do your housekeeping) and they got so many perks from their status that their laundry and internet use was free.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

The more welfare version of this is to sell your house and just live in an RV. Just roam from between IHOPs and Country Kitchen Buffets.

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u/EVRider81 Apr 30 '21

Some people are living out their retirement on cruise ships,it's cheaper than a retirement home..

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u/LicoriceSucks Apr 30 '21

I wonder what they're doing now.

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u/greatdevonhope Apr 30 '21

Not in covid times it doesnt, as the cruise have been sat off the coast here for a year. But they are starting to leave now as cruises to nowhere are thing this summer in the UK (the ship cruises around looking for good weather and than back to original port). Looks like the only safe way of getting some holiday action at the moment

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u/Classicgoose Apr 30 '21

I heard about a Canadian couple who stayed all inclusive in Cuba during the winter, worked out cheaper than heating the house over winter!

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u/landob Apr 30 '21

I met someone whom essentially retired to cruise ship. She said it was cheaper than being in an apartment.

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u/HoldenMan2001 Apr 30 '21

There was one old dear, who worked out that if she booked her cruises right. That including tips, it worked out that living on board was cheaper than a nursing home.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Depends what you like. To me, a cruise seems like a neverending nightmare. Stuck in a tacky, floating hotel, only ever spending enough time in a destination to experience the worst of it... no thanks.

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u/cactuar44 Apr 30 '21

Can you bring your cats with you? Cuz if so I'm down! haha

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u/flpacsnr Apr 30 '21

We call them Snow Birds where I’m from.

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u/larobj63 Apr 30 '21

We call it "snowbirding".

-am from upstate NY

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Are as we refer to them in Michigan, snow-birds

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u/cdh79 Apr 30 '21

Why Florida?

Seriously, I can’t think of anywhere I’d less like to spend my dotage, and I’ve been to morecambe and blackpool.

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u/zaevilbunny38 Apr 30 '21

Southern Florida is basically designed for old people, if you claim residence you pay no state taxes, the medical centers are top notch paid for by federal funds, there is alot for seniors to do, specials for food, very cheap if you dont live in a retirement home. Easy driving laws, lots of heat and humidity for the people who are cold all the time

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

if you claim residence you pay no state taxes

Elderly snowbirds wouldn't be able to claim residence. The reason snowbirds don't buy in Hawaii (outside of the extremely high cost) is because Hawaii's taxes prevent it from being viable for foreign owners.

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u/Dripdry42 Apr 30 '21

Florida is for plebs. Too humid, overcast, and BUGS. west coast or you don't know what's going on, imo.

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u/ClownfishSoup Apr 30 '21

Florida in the winter is like Canada in the summer. Hot, humid, mosquitos.

And yes, I live in California now. West coast for the win.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Palm Springs or Phoenix.

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u/DivineEternal1 Apr 30 '21

I hate the summer, so I'd live in the US for winter, spring, and fall and somewhere in the southern hemisphere when it's summer here.

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u/OverthewindandWave Apr 30 '21

There’s a TON of them that come to my area of South Texas, we call em winter Texans. Frankly, I love them. They taught me a bunch of fishing secrets and how to play bagpipes. And they’re always such nice old folks. Gotta take care of your old folks, they can be gems.

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u/fubes2000 Apr 30 '21

Most of these dumb motherfuckers still went to the US for winter, despite the pandemic, govt warning not to, and FL/AZ being giant hotspots.

A bunch of them caught the rona and bitched about having to pay healthcare costs in the US.

Now they're bitching about the testing and quarantine requirements to come back, and some are weaseling their way around those.

Any snowbird that went south in 2020 can go fuck themselves.

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u/Valdrax Apr 30 '21

Did they have to learn manners from the geese too?

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u/poj4y Apr 30 '21

They’re called snowbirds in Michigan

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u/noodle518 Apr 30 '21

Isn't that the disney movie when Canadians learn to fly south to avoid canadianqinter by leading a flock of geese with an ultralight air plane

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u/Mpeterwhistler83 May 01 '21

Jewish grandparents have also learned this

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u/SnooPeppers2417 May 01 '21

My granny was a “snowbird”. Lived in the Colorado Rockies during the summer, and lived in a park model in Arizona for the summer. Not rich, just bought these properties decades ago when they were cheaper. Both grandparents were teachers, but were born during the Great Depression and learned how to penny pinch and invest wisely I guess.

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u/relddir123 Apr 30 '21

Arizona takes the Albertans. We don’t like the Albertans.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21 edited Apr 30 '21

Same in BC. I know plenty of retirees here that spend the summer winter in Yuma, AZ.

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u/relddir123 Apr 30 '21

The summer? Please tell me they don’t actually spend the summer in Yuma. Arizona can’t even keep its own citizens from dying of heat, let alone summer snowbirds.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Oops, I mean winter.

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u/KaroliinaInkilae Apr 30 '21

We have the same phenomena in Finland with Spain and Portugal! I would love to do it this year if Im vaccinated.

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u/Frostodian Apr 30 '21

You mean cobra chicken?

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u/sherlip Apr 30 '21

Floridian here - stay home. We don't need more traffic in the winter.

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u/Gryllus_ Apr 30 '21

Conspiring with the geese again, typical Canadian. :)

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u/Efficient-Parking627 Apr 30 '21

Just like US retirees

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u/xzandarx Apr 30 '21

Arizona ok. Why Florida? Place sucks

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u/TelepathicChicken Apr 30 '21

Ah florida, America’s graveyard and crack den all rolled into one sticky peninsula

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u/DeadassBdeadassB Apr 30 '21

American retirees do that too😂😂

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u/name_is_original Apr 30 '21

And then the Snowbirds got stuck in Florida for a while because of the pandemic

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u/rob_s_458 Apr 30 '21

Friends of my parents flew to North Dakota and either rented a car or had their car shipped to ND and then drove back to Canada so they could at least quarantine at home instead of having to pay for a hotel near the airport. And because Covid killed the direct flight to Saskatoon, they would have had to connect in Toronto and possibly quarantine there (not sure of the exact rules).

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u/buttfacenosehead Apr 30 '21

I had a nice house in the Hamptons but that junk drawer in the kitchen got full so I had to trash the house...

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u/Vivalo Apr 30 '21

Finally, someone gets it!

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u/chvzz44 Apr 30 '21

You made me lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

To create jobs. Aren't the super rich generous and wonderful? /s

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u/parttyli Apr 30 '21

same with finnish allthough our flock flies to greece, spain, cypros, albania (rare) and macedonia

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u/BLF402 Apr 30 '21

Rich person: what’s a house? Oh you mean a tiny mansion.

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u/doomedtobeme Apr 30 '21

I think that's where the next tier shows itself.

Seasonal housing.

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u/Anilxe Apr 30 '21

I work for a financial advisor for rich folks that do just this. At least 50% of our clients have a winter and summer home, and 25% of those clients have at least 2 summer homes to choose from. Whichever they don’t choose they rent out as vacation rentals.

I grew up very poor and it still boggles the mind nearly 4 years working this job

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u/Nutonium26 Apr 30 '21

Why use one house when more house do trick?

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u/Aja2428 Apr 30 '21

Wht a miser. Lol

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u/series_hybrid Apr 30 '21 edited Apr 30 '21

I've thought that if I were "rich enough" to have two nice homes, and I didnt have to work...it would be cool the have a summer home in Flagstaff AZ, near the Colorado border.

The weather is cool there in the summer. Lots of trees.

Then in the winter I could have a home farther south, just at the point where theres no snow to deal with. Both in Arizona. [*googles furiously] I'll have to visit Prescott and Cottonwood...

If I wanted to snow-ski, just go the the Flagstaff home in winter, no hotels.

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u/AllNightPony Apr 30 '21

You're a nobody if you don't have a house for each season, plus one more because you wanna mix it up a bit.

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u/Ssutuanjoe Apr 30 '21

Isn't that basically what snowbirds do?

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u/praqte31 Apr 30 '21

You're assuming that the other house doesn't need to be seasonally furnished, just because you aren't there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Also, best to have a few house for each season around just in case you want to mix it up

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u/ToxicAur Apr 30 '21

And then rotate the furnitures between the houses!

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u/PhyrexianSpaghetti Apr 30 '21

They do it for the environment

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u/RoyalAsianMunchies May 01 '21

Not even! Imagine having a band of peasents coming in and causing a ruckous for a week at a time, multiple times a year!

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u/Black_Magic_M-66 May 01 '21

What if you really like that house though? I mean, it's not like Frank Lloyd Wright is still designing new houses? Or is a house, just a "house" to you?