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a dare to gravity, plumbing, and your in-laws all at once
means a boat designed or adapted to be lived in as a home, whether it cruises the water or stays moored in one spot.
from A plain English compound of "house" + "boat," both old Germanic words — "house" goes back to Old English "hus" and "boat" to Old English "bat." The pairing is comparatively modern, the kind of practical two-word bolt-together English loves: take a dwelling, set it afloat, name it exactly what it is.
- address optional
- some legally have no fixed postal address
- sausage heritage
- venice's gondolas inspired far chunkier living cousins
- sinking risk
- a forgotten bilge pump can drown your whole home
- floating cities
- amsterdam alone hosts thousands of permanent residents afloat
- tax loophole
- some dodge property tax by simply not touching land
dal lake houseboats — traditional wooden boats on dal lake in srinagar, kashmir, some over 100 years old
thames river houseboats — permanent residential houseboats moored along the thames in london, uk
amsterdam canal houseboats — approximately 2,500 houseboats registered on amsterdam's canals as primary residences