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A floating home is exactly what its name implies -- a
house built on a floating platform. There are many growing
floating home communities in places like Sausalito's Richardson
Bay [FloatingHomes] (just
north of San Francisco on the other side of the Golden Gate
Bridge.) Patri has pictures and a report from a tour of this
community [FloatingHomesTour].
The Netherlands, a country which is 50% below sea level, also
has a large number of floating homes. This lifestyle typically
start out as a clever technique for avoiding the high cost and
restrictive codes of some housing markets, but inevitably the
various government agencies figure out what is going on and
start to enforce building codes, property taxes and the
like. Eventually, the floating homes cost just as much as any
other form of real estate in the area.
Source: http://seastead.org/commented/paper/review.html#A_floating_home_is_exactly_what_its_name_implies__
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[Wed Jun 9 16:32:18 PDT 2004-160] Gwen Ives (NOSPAMgwen@galtsgulch.us.NOSPAM):
I don't know if you discuss this in more detail later, but you might want to differentiate between the two radically different floating home communities in Sausalito. There's the "nice" one, which is the one you're probably referring to when you say it's just as expensive as buying property. And then there's the skanky Mad-Max-Beyond-Thunderdome floating squatters community.
[Tue May 31 12:36:25 PDT 2005-150] chase smith (NOSPAMchase@yahoo.com.NOSPAM):
I, Chase Smith, live in the house on the right. That house has many hidden features that are wonderful for all kinds of buyers. I, Chase Smith, am looking to sell this fine peice of real-estate. This fine example of a boat house is wonderful for first time buyers.
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