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Ha, I was gonna ask about canal boats cos lots popped up on Rightmove. The mooring fees seem to negate the potential savings on rent/mortgage.
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Depends how you view your time on a boat. I shouldn't really condone this but if you have a fuck it attitude and only consider it as a One or two year thing you could just continuously cruise and not do the 20 mile+ navigation you are supposed to. To satisfy a CC licence you should really be moving from Broxbourne(ish) to Uxbridge(ish). In reality you could get away with Tottenham to Westbourne Park which will give you a decent area of London to explore. You just have to move every couple of weeks. The waterways are busy now a days though but its great fun as long as your work life isn't super strenuous. Best of all Its mega cheap as long as you are handy enough to fix the odd boat issue. Licence fees, insurance, gas, fuel etc used to add up to about £150pm for me.
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@Howard is correct, i moor further out now. i spent about 2 years in central/east london as i was working in hospitals all along the river lea and i navigated from cheshunt to alperton. it was a fucking PITA and i also loathe the people of east and central london (ok, fine, all people) with the passion of a thousand burning suns so when we sold up and our new boat ended up getting craned in at watford, we just stayed that side of london. it's idyllic. mooring in country parks and aquadromes, passing marinas at least once a month to stock up on things like coal and kindling and gas and diesel and get the toilet emptied, good trainsport links from all 3 of the met line forks and national rail. well worth the extra time it takes to get in. the people are also nicer and there's fewer of them (east is just a rat race with no facilities and no space and everyone's bloody rude). i have no mooring fees, i just pay the licence on the boat annually, plus insurance. no biggie. as i've said before though, boating isn't for everyone, especially continuous cruising. the crt are far less of a ballache this side of london though.
Howard
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ioreka
I moved from Norwich in 2013, thought it would be for a year or two but i'm still here and love it. Don't think i'll be here forever but can't foresee moving back out any time soon. Also owned and lived on a Narrowboat for a couple of years which was a great way to get test different areas.