Yachts are the cars of water

Rising sea levels flooding your land, you need to live in/on your yacht to avoid this

Why not just live on a yacht?

Why would I sit in a car and maybe even have to drive? What if get a craving for a club sandwich?

You really expect me to ask some stranger in another car for Grey Poupon?

I gotta bring a chef and kitchen and waitstaff with me everywhere, just in case!

Ever been to Venice? The plumbing is a major issue. More docks and water housing aren’t a bad idea per say (the earth’s surface is mostly water) but it needs to be done in a way that makes sense.

Maybe instead of dense single person vehicles infrastructure we just make cities dense?

Because just like a train, a yacht also cannot get me to work.

Can’t drown on a road

Pros of yacht-centric development:

• If you own a yacht, it means you are rich and therefore better than others.
• If you’re in a car, some homeless guy could just walk up to your car and beg for money (so awkward!). In a yacht, what are they gonna do, swim?
• Waterfront access is the American dream. Building roads instead of canals is literally communism.
• Yachts and canals are great for home values. Gotta keep those prices going up!
• Cars just aren’t sufficient for your average person to haul 20 friends to their weekly parties on their private islands. People need their yachts to go about these basic necessities of life!

Pros of car-centric development:

• ???
• There are no pros of car-centric development.

Silly OP.

You don’t want to take it to waters, because there’s where Deep Ones live and Cthulhu dreams his everlasting nightmares embraced by the walls of R’lyeh.

Have to make sure the island city floats, when the inevitable polar icecaps melting floods their property value increases!

Orcas: *deep breathing

Seems to me we’re just gonna transfer the car problem to boats. People worried about all those sports boats mowing over us poor kayakers and row boaters, and even worse, disregarding paddle boarders crossing at designated points, but it’s our fault because they have big boats that can’t stop, forcing us to row down small canals or risk being stranded on a narrow river arm with a hole in our hull and no flex tape to at least get to a repair shop. But maybe we’ll start getting protected rowing lanes and not just a line of buoys that tell us where to be.

But I do like the idea of the Venetian solution from another comment. Build bridges low enough to block boats from coming through but high enough to let rowers and paddlers through. And if we need a place to pass on foot on busy places, we can always build drawbridges, but those would get pushback due to the danger they’d cause distracted boat drivers.

The future is wet, but not so different.

To be honest, I’d be down to a canoe or a row boat to get to and from my house. Or a floating house with a small electric motor to change neighbours from time to time.

Just make the yacht big enough to build roads on for cars. That way you can contribute to climate change while contributing to climate change.

Literally bought a sailboat because it doesn’t need gas.