Boat maintenance seems quite a bit more involved than house stuff. Also where do you get stuff like fresh water for bathing and stuff? Then there's all the waste, from garbage to biological. Hmm... it sounds good at first, but it also seems like a massive headache

>>1901
From what I understand, it's most realistic to tie it into a membership at a yatch club or marina. They charge membership so you can use their facilities. Kind of resembles condo living at that point. Just don't be in a huricane alley or intend to stay in a body of water that freezes.

membership at my local yatch club is $422.00 per year and that tends to tie in with various social gatherings. You could probably find something barebones, 200 annual. Having to take care of all the utilities on your own is less than glamorous so you'd use public facilies.

Without solar you'd end up running 4$/day of diesel generators the catch is that using a desktop PC is going to run you up on electricity charges and something like a space heater might as well be impossible. You'd probably be constrained to a laptop and use your cellphone's internet and wherever possible you'd be using propane.
With 12 solar panels you could get through the day doing everything you normally do, but at night the charges will run up since you need a generator to do everything.
Batteries? Not happening. You need 300 of them. Your nights will depend on propane. But maybe living outdoors you'd quickly find that you prefer to be awake at the day and asleep at night.

come to think of it, using a desktop PC is probably impossible because boats sway. So that would cut back on 500W making things more affordable. Winter is still going to be expensive if a heater has to run 24/7... but if it does then the water is probably freezing anyways

All things considered, for what you have to compromise on, It doesn't seem like you get a lot in savings.

Boats are more of an asset than cars, but they still lose some value. Just at a slower pace.
You'd probably be better off taking out a mortgage.
One has to wonder what your gains are when living outside of a building

Maybe I overjudged on the cost of gas since it won't be moving around a lot outside of certain days where you're moving from winter to summer locations.

Also chances are you'd need to take out a loan for the initial purchase. Personal loan rates for people without collateral is 8% right now. Which is pretty bad, maybe it will go down to 4-5% in the future or something.

My great aunt used to live in a house boat at our family riverside holiday house, I went there when I was very young and I remember it was quite house like.
The boat started to rot or get holes in it or something like that(maybe she did not maintain it properly) so she put it ashore and lived in it like that for a bit until she just stole the holiday house and got rid of the boat...

She probably got electricity from the holiday house and as she moored it there she would not have to pay a fee, but then that requires land and defeats the purpose of the boat anyway.

>>1912
You have to coat or clean the bottom regularly. Lifting it up with a crane and cleaning the bottom or painting it with an environmentally unfriendly chemical.
My family is very much a marine one so I know a bit about this. Which is why I consider it as an option, but still the pricing of it doesn't make sense

I found this site the other day by people who actually live the nomadic boat life
https://100r.co/site/liveaboard.html
It's pretty cool but... I read through some of it and was completely put off by the notion of living on a boat, not that I wanted to do it very much in the first place. Owning property and owning land is saikou after all.

>>1917
Boat he describes looks kind of like a Catalina or a Tanzer 26, but it's probably something completely different

>>1918
Nevermind then. Victoria is a type of sailboat. Probably a large model.

Thing with water living is that you can't live anywhere. If your body of water freezes in winter you have to go south at some point(which is perhaps a plus). If you're not a sailboat that means gas. If you are a sailboat that means there won't be a whole lot of living space since boat needs to be designed for sailing.

Also if you live in Argentina you might find some places to be less than desirable

neat they >>1917 have videos

Nice cost breakdown from a former home owner(lots of money available)

>>1925
the normo

>>1926
flordians

>>1912
Hmm, at that point something like an RV seems like a better choice. Come to think of it, yeah, I'd rather have a big house-car hybrid thing to move around into forests and stuff than a boat that's confined to lakes. I think there's probably a difference between a boat for lakes and a boat for oceans, right?
I guess it depends on where you are and where you're going, too, because land borders are generally less of a hassle than the water variety.
Although, with an RV you aren't very likely to find any mermaids...

>>1925
/secret/ post.