live on a houseboat

I don’t want to be a millionaire. I don’t want to have nine-hundred kids. I don’t want to own fancy cars. But, someday, when I finish grad school and have a good job living in a coastal region, I am pretty serious about wanting to live on a houseboat.

But am open to this happening any time.

My boyfriend wants to build a houseboat in the style of a Chinese flowerboat! I want to help him build it, and more importantly live on it with him! We are going to look for a house to rent with a garage after our apartment lease is up so we have a place to start!

In a near future I would like to be able to live on a houseboat in London.Even a little tiny one…

But I know enough about it to know that when it’s worth doing, it requires almost as much planning as buying a house on land. The good communities are in fact well organized and recognized by their local municipality.

One of the books I read that inspired me was this one: The Houseboat Book by Barbara Flanagan – and it includes a discussion of some of the things to consider when you want to start living on board a houseboat.

I have given up on this because I actually checked out the realities of living on a houseboat while we were in Key West. It would be fun for vacation but not for an extended period of time.

Sounds like a great idea, a house on the water without paying property tax.

I’m putting this in the maybe pile. While I love boats, and houses, and I think I’d like living in a houseboat, I’m just not sure this is something I NEED to do before I kick the bucket. You know?

I grew up on a housebarge until I was twelve. I won’t go into the details as to what happened. It’s just that lately, I think I appreciate those times more now than I did. The marine nature part, the being able to go swimming anytime I wanted to part. I want to reclaim that; all the rest can go @#$* .

I saw some people living on a houseboat when I visited Amsterdam. The people were so relaxed sitting on board drinking coffee, listen to music or reading a newspaper and don’t care about all this tourist who passed. I want to have one because I could travel around and I am everywhere at home. It is sooo cool. It is a special way of life and I want to live it.