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> I had a colleague at a previous job who was living in a boat.

Sounds like fun! Do you know what kind of boat (e.g. motor boat, sail boat, yacht) and how much he paid for the boat?

Looking at sail boats, they're surprisingly expensive for a reasonably sized one (e.g. seafaring).

> Sounds like fun!

Exactly, it 'sounds' like fun. Years ago I had a colleague who did this. He tried to make it work and finally gave up. He did it to try and save money, so his sail boat was on the smallish side and everything he did ended up being a chore.

I think it was a sailboat. He told me it was relatively cheap (10-20k euros) but maintaining it was costly.

There's that old saw about a boat being a hole in that water that you throw money into.

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