Buy a Condo, Lose a Zip Code: Live Forever at Sea Cruising on MS The World

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Imagine telling your neighbor you’re moving — and then watching their jaw drop when you explain your new HOA is an international maritime crew and your property tax bill arrives by satellite. 

That, dear readers, is the promise of MS The World: the floating condo complex for people who got tired of landscaping and wanted to upgrade to longitude-and-latitude living.

The World isn’t a cruise ship in the “two-week getaway” sense. 

It’s literally a residential building afloat. 

Instead of renting a weekend cabin, residents buy apartments — and then the building circumnavigates the globe on an itinerary that spends an average of three days in each port and visits more than 100 destinations a year. 

Purchase prices on the resale market typically range from roughly $2.5 million to $15 million, with hefty annual fees — often around 10% of the purchase price — to keep the engines running, the crew paid, the restaurants staffed, and the yoga instructors smiling while navigating international waters.

If the marketing copy sounds like a billionaire’s fantasy, that’s because it kind of is. 

From the ship’s website: “When we launched in 2002, The World introduced a lifestyle of residential luxury adventure that was previously unimaginable.” 

Translation: you’ll sleep in a place with better views than your second home in Aspen, and your neighbors might have more passports than you have pairs of casual loafers.

Here’s how it works in plain, slightly salty language: residents buy one of the 165 residences (they were all sold initially, though a few resales pop up every year), pay the maintenance, and then vote on where the ship goes. 

The community decides the itinerary — yes, you can take civic pride in choosing whether the ship stops in Dubrovnik or Dominica. 

From the site again: “Every aspect of life on board is meticulously attended to by The World’s unrivaled Crew, so that all our Residents need to do is enjoy.” 

Which is a nice way of saying you’ll never have to unclog a sink again, but you should probably brush up on how to tip an on-board sommelier!

The amenities read like a resort brochure that’s been given sentience: multiple fine-dining restaurants, a PGA golf simulator (for practicing your slice while the ship slices through the Indian Ocean), spa and wellness centers, full-size tennis court, pools, a library, a cinema, and a constant rotation of shore excursions to places where your Instagram followers will suddenly care about your travel pics. 

The ship measures 644 feet / 196 meters — again in the site’s words: “The World is the planet’s largest private residential yacht at 644 feet / 196 meters – the only Ship of its kind currently in operation sailing a continuous itinerary across every ocean and continent.” 

Put another way: it’s big enough to get lost in, small enough that you’ll bump into your neighbor at the breakfast buffet while attempting to pretend you aren’t being nosy about their art collection.

There are practicalities, too. 

Annual fees cover staffing, fuel, maintenance — and the inevitable dry-dock ritual. 

Every three years the ship enters dry-dock for upgrades and repairs; think condo association planning meeting crossed with shipyard logistics. 

The owners also offer 50% Partnership opportunities for some residences, for folks who want the lifestyle without the year-round commitment (or who want to split the cost of a yacht-sized mortgage).

Life aboard the ship lends itself to the kind of punchlines comedy writers love: the HOA meeting that has a motion to reroute to Tuscany, the neighbor who “forgets” their passport at trivia night, the mysterious case of who left hummus in the gym locker... 

But there’s also genuine appeal: no property taxes in your local town, no yard work, constant travel without the hassle of packing and TSA lines. 

You keep your wine collection, your art, and apparently your life savings in the same place — and you can truly say your home has a better vacation schedule than you do.

Sure, the idea of living at sea “forever” sounds like something out of a sci-fi-rom-com crossed with a retirement brochure. 

But for the affluent adventurer who wants to swap mortgage payments for marina envy and join a community that literally sails to the beat of its own global playlist, MS The World offers the ultimate real-estate flex: buy a condo, lose a zip code, and never mow a lawn again!


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