Floating City

By Tamper

Date 03-12-2009 16:46

Wow what kind of "new government" Are they going to try? lol

By jrw159

Date 03-12-2009 18:17

Not sure on that. :-)

By ctacker (****)

Date 03-12-2009 18:21

seman socialists?

By jrw159

Date 03-12-2009 19:02

LOL, there is no telling. :-)

By Metarinka (****)

Date 03-13-2009 01:14

Seasteaders are those who want to go out and form their own communties on the last true frontier which is the ocean. Some have wild ideas about government and politics and some are simply looking for loopholes around laws, some just want to get away from modern society.

There has been some legitimate feasibility studies by smart and well funded individuals into whether such structures could be built, and well most of the technology is already in place in both the mega cruise ships and offshore oil rigs.

personally I don't care about either and most of those mega-structure pipe dreams never will get built because they never hit the critical mass in either funding or public interest.

By Bob Garner (***)

Date 03-13-2009 18:40

Sounds like the so-called Sea-Gypsies in Thailand. They essentially live on the water. I've always dreamed of running off and joining them.

By uphill

Date 03-13-2009 21:03

The thinking behind it is very interesting. The boat culture on the rivers in america has seen some upswing in the last few years. Some states allow a homesteading of sorts that have loopholes in place to escape property taxes. There is even a small settlement in downtown St. Paul Minnesota that has sometimes 20 or more dwellers. Most of the structures are very old and not very homey to say the least. Live aboard houseboats offer a relatively cheap investment, you can buy a 30-36 foot houseboat for $8-15,000. Some slips are full services like the rv campgrounds. I havent been down south on the major rivers but have been told of many groups of boaters living on backwaters and islands.

I imagine eventually the free statis will not be so easy to find. Not a bad idea, free food, fresh air and being rocked to sleep at night. Maybe park in some good waterfowl area and reload, reload....

By DaveBoyer (*****)

Date 03-14-2009 04:53

I lived on My sail boat for the better part of 12 years. In my travels I did see some strange floating "homes" Some were really not boats, some not even house boats. Most of these were in the Florida Keys. Anything that would float covered over with scraps of wood and some structure to give some shelter & tied to the mangrove bushes, they were home to somebody... I think the ones I saw have not survived the huricanes, but no doubt there are others in their place.

Key West has a large homeless population, or at least it did then, living in the bush near the airport. Those people don't even have a "houseboat". They break camp every day and go to the beach., the cops won't go in the bush after dark, so they don't get hassled at night.