This is a different kind of boat, but I met someone recently who lives in a houseboat like this and apparently it works out cheaper than buying a house near where they work. It’s moored on the Thames, some way upriver from London.
The funniest part was how relatively normal this person was. They work as a lawyer.
This is a different kind of boat, but I met someone recently who lives in a houseboat like this and apparently it works out cheaper than buying a house near where they work. It’s moored on the Thames, some way upriver from London.
The funniest part was how relatively normal this person was. They work as a lawyer.
Narrowboats are expensive tho.
They’re the vw campers of the waterway.
Expensive and usually very old and very rotten.
plus you can only really do inland waterways with them. i much prefer sailboats
The situation above just sounds like a floating trailer park to me.
Having said that, you can buy brand new canal boats.
These are crazy popular in and around London, even among fairly ‘normal’ people.
The housing crisis is just so bad that they are comparatively quite affordable (even once you include the long-term/ongoing costs).