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@neauoire @emaytch Speaking only for myself, but te the difference between having a boat/RV/cottage as a home vs. as a Thing
A single engine plane or a horse is a Thing. It takes a significant investment of time and money, so all my free time is spent in the Thing and the rest of the Thing is stored away in a location I pay rent on. I may not have time to maintain the Thing so I have to pay someone to do that for me. Thats why I can only have one Thing.
And for people who don’t have any free time, their house or apartment becomes their Thing too
For me to make a boat my home, I have to be able to keep it moving and fix it myself, and get rid of everything else. To have that confidence, I’d have to have grown up on the water, made a career of it on some else’s boat, or spent years having it be my Thing
Did you take any of those paths?
@flyingsaceur @emaytch No, we just sort of winged it and got lucky winging it, we started at the same time as others who weren't as lucky and either sunk, or half scared themselves to death. I don't think everyone should be living on the water, but it was our last resort, if we weren't living so far away from friends and family who could help us, our situation might have played out differently too, and a life on the water would have been way down the list of what is sensible.