Is A Nomadic Lifestyle Cheaper Than Living In One Place?

Re:Is A Nomadic Lifestyle Cheaper Than Living In One Place? by mixmax on Thursday April 16, 2009 @04:46PM (#565869)

Mine goes roughly 2 kilometers on a liter of diesel, which is pretty cheap by boating standards. The reason is that the engine isn't terribly large, and thus cruising speed is around 7 miles an hour. If I wanted to go 30 miles an hour my fuel consumption would at least quadruple.

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Re:Is A Nomadic Lifestyle Cheaper Than Living In One Place? by herdrick on Thursday April 16, 2009 @05:29PM (#565935)

OK, but I was talking about maintenance/repair costs. You know, "A boat is a hole in the water you pour money into".

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Re:Is A Nomadic Lifestyle Cheaper Than Living In One Place? by electromagnetic on Friday April 17, 2009 @12:05AM (#566364)

And a house isn't a hole in the land you pour money into?

Acceptable home maintenance costs are between 1 and 4% of the house value, however this doesn't necessarily extend toward the higher home prices.

Of course all these prices vary, some people pay ridiculous amounts for home maintenance because they can't do simple tasks and some people pay almost nothing because they can do everything themselves. However, I'm sure the same goes for boat maintenance too.

It's the mere fact that paying $4,000 in home maintenance of a house costing $250,000, and paying $4,000 in boat maintenance on a boat costing $50,000 that you live on.

I suppose your food costs would be significantly cheaper if you like fish though. Well if you're a good fisher. Personally if I had to rely on my fishing skills I'd probably die from blood loss.

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