I want to live on houseboat so badly, just starting to learn what it will take….....
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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.
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.
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 @#$* .




