Business Insider extolls virtues of living aboard

[Captain Smollett]

At least for one case, they are calling it a pretty shrewd way to stay out of debt (in this case for grad school).

Student Avoids Debt By Living on a Boat

It does make me wonder if this kind of publicity will give more people the idea, drive up slip costs, used boat prices, etc...? 

[Cruiser2B]

I still think for most people they see living aboard as "camping" and while cheap, camp grounds aren't over flowing. This is what I have noticed when telling others of my ideas of living of the grid so to speak. Most people cannot fathom that idea.

[Grime]

We live off the grid.


We live full time in a RV and have a boat that we also spend a lot of time on.  People do wonder how we do it. We got rid of the stuff.

RV parks are getting more and more expensive. A large number have restrictions on age and type of RV that they will allow.

Not out cruising but from doing research on marina's they are getting more and more expensive. I fell they are trying to do as RV parks are doing. Weeding out what they feel is the lower class.

[rorik]

"most people they see living aboard as "camping""

A friend of twenty years, when I bought Mathilda, told me I was "crazy to be living out of a bag at my age"..... we haven't really talked much since.

"Weeding out what they feel is the lower class."

I've noticed that here, in the PNW, too.
I have one of the oldest, and smallest, boats in my little marina.
There are even a couple of yards that won't haul wooden boats unless they are new.

[SalientAngle]

headless??? I think something was missed in this portion of the interview:

"His resourcefulness didn't end there. Pearce replaced the toilet with a wood-burning stove, which doubled as a heater when the cabin got to a numbing 17 degrees Fahrenheit. He cooked meals onboard, too, using drift wood from the nature reserve for fire."