• AxExRx@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I know plenty of people who are by no means rich who live on boats that size. Its basically the marine equivalent of living in a camper.

    My best friend lived on one for more than a decade. he got for like $3k and put like $9k of work into it. Had his first kid living on that boat because he couldn’t afford to live on land.

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      11 hours ago

      That’s a whole different lifestyle tho, the orcas are not attacking the boat slips. Mad props to people who live on boats. In the 2008 recession it was a great housing option for the poor