There'll also be a mooring fee, apparently this is typically around £6k a year in London, although apparently this can go upto 20k depending on the boat and where in London the mooring is
I’m 28 and also live on a narrowboat, you have to pay river license and boat insurance each year, if you live on a marina you also pay mooring fees for the marina, it’s way cheaper than living in a building.
I lived on a narrowboat for 13 years. It was THE life, brilliant community, solitude when wanted, wildlife on your doorstep. It's not the same now - the canals are so crowded and many of the folk moving in aren't as considerate of others, but if you haven't experienced what it was before it would still be a great option for those who aren't afraid of some graft.
@@OriginalMindTrick Narrowboats are effectively steel tubes, so very draft-free, and if well insulated, cosier than a room in a house. It's especially lovely if you have a solid wood stove - very cosy. And stove-top fans are an amazing technology, requiring no electricity, that moves the heat along the boat as well. Some boats suffer from condensation problems, but mine never did - It's a case of making sure there is adequate ventilation and no leaks anywhere - just the same as a house or a caravan.
@@Elvisism There are a lot of things that you wouldn't think about in a house that you have to work for on a boat - Toilets need to be emptied, whether that's a cassette loo, every few days, or a pump-out loo, every few months (but pump-outs require moving the boat itself to a special location each time and perhaps having to organise yourself through bridges and stoppages). You have to fill up your water tank regularly - maybe unrolling and rolling hoses on muddy towpaths in the depths of winter...Lugging coal or wood or gas bottles around to have fuel, for everyday things like cooking. That's just daily living. Then, like houses, but more so - they require maintenance. So you need to scrape and paint the bottom every couple of years or so, and keep on top of seals, rust, etc elsewhere too. You can pay someone to do these things of course, but if your issue is money, then you will be spending a lot of time and graft doing it yourself, especially if your boat is older. Things deteriorate rapidly due to the watery environment so there is no option of 'putting it off' if you don't want more work/expense down the line. And then there is often a lot of walking and carrying - bringing your shopping half a mile down a muddy towpath is a high possibility at least at times, depending on your mooring situation. All these sorts of things. There are some marinas that make all of this a lot easier, but they are getting more and more costly too - so if it's a cheap life you want, then you have to be able to graft.
@@relfyem Sounds like a living situation that requires you to able be quite conscientious and laborious. I think this is a reasonable sacrifice for the solitute, especially in modern life when everything is so accessible. The mindfulness maintainance seems to be able to bring might be good for people. Thanks for your help and experience.
My friend used to own a narrow boat in London, she spent so much on constantly having to repair her boat because of water damage, it was not affordable any longer, so she sold it.
@@DavidL1986I had my boat hull blacked 4 years ago and it needed welding because I'd left too long cause I couldn't afford to get it blacked, and it cost me nearly £3,000 to have the work done, and my family helped me to pay for it.
It's not quite what she says at the beginning 'i don't actually pay anything' there's a river license you have to pay, and then there are mooring fees. There's two options for that, one for if you move around a lot, or one for if you stay moored in the same place most of the time. Can't remember the details fully, briefly looked into living on a house/narrow boat the other day. It is probably overall cheaper than what the rent might be in a house, but it's not free. You pay an equivalent of rent.
Yeah, I’m not sure why he doesn’t set these videos up in a way that introduces these people to the audience formally. There’s 0 reason to pretend like this isn’t set up, especially in an age where the audience knows it is lol.
@@rjayyyy9623 fully agree when you see that staged fake intro and meet I find it so cringe worthy that the video would instantly get a dislike and most likely a do not recommend channel aswell it's a shame because these types of videos could be interesting. If they didn't treat their viewers like children.
I live in a caravan, its freezing and has no running water directly to it. No electricity and i even have a hoole in the ceiling that leaks 😂 Its very uncomfortable but i love it, its mine and its helping me change my life by making my videos from it. I have such little outgoings now that i dont have to works lots, which frees me up to make my vids 😊 There are other ways of living, we dont HAVE to live the way we have been told we need to. Much love to all ❤
I also live in a caravan and had the same issue bloody cold in winter,I fitted a camping stove (log burner) last year and the difference is unreal,I find myself having to open a window to cool off sumtimes as for electric I book my electric up to my car battery 🔋 I don't have running water but I have 2 large water butts I fill up which will last me 3,4 days
Good on her . I lived on a boat for several years when i was younger , wouldn't want to do it again these days but it teaches resilience and develops a sense of adventure . Cost is a secondary consideration .
I know that area very well, it’s near Broadway market in east London and very close to Victoria Park. When I was a kid me and my mates use to go down to that canal with our fishing nets to catch tiny fish and place them in our glass pickled gherkin jars filled with water before later releasing them back in the canal. We would also ride our BMX’s along that same canal, travelling in both directions, towards Victoria Park and Regents Zoo and Camden Lock. This lady sounds posh but in my day before that area was gentrified it was affordable with many cockneys like myself living there. Sadly most of the real east Enders that we’re born and bred there have either died or moved out of London or abroad because it’s so expensive to live there.
gentrification has destroyed working class communities. Just as 2nd home owners in the countryside and landlords buying up cheap housing to rent out for profit. This generation are being screwed hard for housing and the government are just allowing it.
Yeh this is not including an awful lot of costs. Still cheaper than normal rent sure, but its not just her loan. Theres river lisence, insurance and no chance of a long term mooring in london without a substantial fee. There will also be very different soend in terms of utilities. Will need a generator for the electricity so fuel for that, and ofc when you need to move mooring. And for the heating source whether thats wood or whatever. Would need to account for differences in utility cost whichever way that turns out. Which will depend a lot on efficiency. Solar pannels would help am awful lot of course.
Agreed she not from London, Londoners sink in the own expensive shit! Just to say hey I’m from London 😂 and the wouldn’t live on a boat. They pay £1500pm for box rooms ☠️
I live on a narrow boat and have done so for about 15 years, and I wouldn't say it is cheap way of living. And I'm nowhere near London, but if you add everything up, it's not that much cheaper than living in a house, well in Wiltshire anyway. But it can be more enjoyable especially out in the countryside, but that also makes you more vulnerable, so you have to take that into account.
Youre forgetting the boat mantinance, the mooring fees, plus you still have to pay council tax, fuel, have to follow boating rules like moving it. Winter is tough as snow can sink the boats. So it all adds up about the same as rent for a flat. I fell for the van life fad only to end up paying the same price as my old flat but with less space and more hassle.
So my partner and I are about to do this. We have just given notice on our house, which is £995 a month, just rent!!!, and sold all our furniture, and we are moving in with my dad for a year/18 months on 1st December to save for our own boat. Once we own the narrowboat, our plan is to save a deposit for a house and rent it out. Living rent-free whilst someone else buys us a house 😎 It's worth a try, right? 😂
@@amani1096 hiya yeah it was kept on a private water way some people luve on it 365 so everyone knows everybody went on the canal twice to diesel up if i cud i'd live on one all the time loved it the only nuisance was the ducks when i pulled my work truck up they'd come rnd the boat see if we had any scraps for them if you've the chance i'd say jump at it keep the water topped n diesel charge the batterys (run the engine) but honestly i loved it
@@pjkyEverybody's idea of a great life is different. How have you grown up and not realised that the people feel differently about things to you? Different hobbies, different likes and dislikes, different personalities, different expectations etc. Some people adore peace and quiet and simplicity. Some people are more materialistic and just want to own loads of things. Who are you to judge what someone else's idea of a good life is? 😂 Just because you're miserable with your own life.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 I'm sure she's very happy but that's smaller than a prison cell surrounded by 2 other boats with probably no water pressure. If she moves to Essex she can stay in a 1bed with a garden. Just being objective here, this is the internet and you are the one sounding miserable:/
She has to pay something for mooring it there too. She didn’t say that. Assuming a length of 15 meters (an average length for a narrowboat) and £250 per year per meter which is what it costs to moor in London on the themes, it’s probably an additional £312 a month for that so she would be actually paying about £512 a month. Assuming that’s all the fees.
@@thetrophysystem3697compared to most people her age and older living in house/flatshares for >1k a month, this is absolutely a win 😂 she has her own space, somewhat equivalent to a studio apartment but even significantly cheaper than that.
having a postal address that is solid for all official matters is difficult if you operate completely solo and can't depend on friends or family. tthe law needs to change to make it easier and accessible for boaters
@@pineapplesandvibes3277 sure that works for some things but not the for the official stuff. have you been able to setup a bank account using these methods or the DWP use this route for pensions for example? i am not trying to catch you out, but if you know of a specific bank or whatever that can do this then i am super interested. I have heared of some virtual addresses but the cost is prohibitive so living on a boat costs increases because of the need for an address.
I equated it to American Snow birds…. Retirees (or those luck enough to do office work remotely) who live in RVs or conversion vehicles, but have access to a structure when situations require it
@@brettuk Surprisingly, you can absolutely set up a bank accound or DWP accounts using a P.O Box. It's actually how a _lot_ of businesses set up their accounts. I believe there is actually a special type of P.O Box for people who live on narrowboats/canal boats and if you've had to move on to another town miles away they can even arrange to have your mail forwarded to the next nearest P.O Box location.
@@brettuk Yes you can, I set up a business bank account with my virtual address. I even registered my company with it. You can do most things with a virtual address.
@@stephengodsmark4353 exactly. There's a shortage of the essential workers were I live, because the pay and working environments are not great and many people prefer to go to uni after school, any many choose to study liberal arts. But we only need so many sociologists etc.
Wait till you have to hire a crane and have it lifted out of the water for inspection - every 5 years (without a Hull integrity & safety certificate no company will insure you) and while out the water you must strip and re-black the hull. That'll put your rent up
Even if constantly moving so not having mooring fees, there are Canal & Waterways fees, plus regular maintenance, bills as usual, fuel to keep moving and using the stove for heating. Bilge checks, Black Bottoming of the boat etc
@@mpazinambao2938depends on the area, rent in london is crazy. To rent a studio flat in the area where her boat is moored could cost £1200-1600 and she would have a very hard time finding a flat because she has a dog. Plus council tax and utility bills, it could cost almost £2000 per month. So living in a boat is definitely way cheaper in this case.
She said she pays £200 a month for the loan that she got to buy the boat! The boat mooring in london is around £600 a month . Boats need insurance to allow london mooring and on average they cost £150 a month in bills ( gas , electric , water , sewage etc ) She’s basically paying £950 a month so think twice before getting excited and handing in your notices to your landlords 😂
Mate lives one one of these and every 2 weeks he's gotta move otherwise the river authority fines you. Marina expenses have doubled in the last year and most of them don't let you work on your boat inside the marina or stay moored all year round...
You have to pay to moor at a marina, otherwise you have to move all the time. Narrow boats can be disgustingly hot in the summer and freezing any other time. Firewood/coal is expensive and depending on the marina you moor at, they might force you to use smokeless coal which is expensive. A narrow boat can also cost more than a deposit on a house, so you still have to be privileged enough to be able to afford it (N.B: commented in 2023 when inflation/housing prices have rocketed)
@@Truth-Seeker-1111 what happens to your house when it gets burgled . What happens when we have a storm . What happens when the pipes burst . Same thing regardless where what you live in
I think the canal license is just over £1k per year and if she moves every two weeks she doesn’t have to pay to moor. But factor in the diesel cost and maintenance of the boat it’s very much cheaper than a house. Lots of young people are doing this in London now especially Hackney area.
@@kanoye1887kind of, she said she pays nothing at the start but she still has bills to pay, mooring, boat licence, fuel, WiFi or Internet connection plus the fee to buy the boat which must be at least a 100k loan... not bad but still bs she has to live in a skinny boat just because London landlords are mugging everyone off
River trust Insurance for a boat is £14.50pm depending on size, either cabin cruiser or a narrow boat Get a boat between 2 and 3 births that runs but needs minor work. Spend around 3-5k Get yourself on the grand union canal (london) Remember, your insurance will be a LOT cheaper if you get a continuous cruiser where you will need to move every 14 days, and that's just a mile every 2 weeks.
For the people saying its more expenisve than £200 a month- If you are paying mooring fees it is probably very expensive, unles you get a really good deal from someone who owns the mooring. But if you are continous cruising it is cheap. The liscense to cruise depends on the size of the boat, it ranges from about £600 to £1800 a year. Insurance costs a little under £200. Diesel probably costs around £1500 a year (and obviously this will continue to rise per year). If you have a cassette toilet it doesnt cost anything to empty it. If she has solar panels electricity will be free during the day, at night i inagine she will run off of diesel. Heating the boat really depends on your set up, she could use a conbination of solid fuel, radiators powered bt diesel and solar heating, and if ahes hardy and puts in a jumper she might just survive with a chily boat, but kets say around £3-500 a year if she mainly use solid fuel. Cooking will probably use gas, which is peetty cheap if youre caeeful- lets say 150 a year. So far, thats about 200 a month give or take. There are extra costs, but they really depend on how much yoh do yourself- maintenance, particularly of the engine, boat blacking,other repairs (these will vary but it will be a constant process of things needing maintenance.). Some of this stuff tou can do ince and be fine for another twn years. Other stuff will need dealing with more frequently. But over tine the cost may well get less because once you have the equipment you need to do the work you can remove that cost from your total. I reckon you should be comforrable with setting aside £5000 for emergency expenses, but i reckon your diy costs will be maybe 500 a year, plus the cost of taking the boat out the water and paint every two years for blacking which is maybe another 500. That all comes to under 300 a month for both maintenance and cost of living. Lets add an extra £1000 a year onto that to cover anything ive forgotten. Thats less than £400 a month. The average rent in london is over £1000. That doesnt include bills or council tax (whoch you dont pay on a boat if you ckntinously cruise) So it is massively cheaper. The trade off is it is A LOT OF WORK! You have to mive every 2 weeks, you have to dwal with the elements, its a small living space, its cold, you have to deal with your shit, you have to repair stuff. Its not easy. But for the right person it is incredibly rewarding, and is an extremely cheap wzy of living. I think of it like this- if you live in a house you are paying for your life in money. If you live on a boat you pay wya less money, but that is offset by needing to invest more time. So its perfect if youre a freelance artist, but if you have a 9-5 living on a boat might not be for you.
Also fees depend on how long your boat is, plus fuel and every 3 years it needs to go in for blacking and every 3/5 years (depending on where you are) you need a safety cert. Also there's insurance. More like living in a floating truck really.
Think about how much "other" stuff you have to pay for a flat too... Council tax, water rates, electric and gas standing charges. This lot is about £150 a month and you get nothing really for it that you can't have on a boat without those charges.
this woman must be Continuous cruisering otherwise she would have to pay for her mooring which means You’ll need to continually move from place to place on a journey, rather than just shuttling back and forth between places and remaining in a small area
I've known several people who live on boats in London, it's not the rent that'll get you, it's all the additional expenses of keeping and mooring a boat.
I’m curious about maintenance cost. As someone who grew up with a family sailboat, the price of the boat isn’t necessarily the issue. It’s the cleaning, maintenance of the hull, cost of repairs that will essentially make you understand the joking acronym of (B.O.A.T) BANG OUT ANOTHER THOUSAND 😂
Owning a keelboat is like standing under a cold shower tearing up 20 pound notes. :-) Another favourite is a boat is a hole in the water you try to fill with money. Luv and Peace.
Yes it is free to Moore anywhere unless there’s signs that say otherwise. You pay your insurance and annual canal license and that’s it. I’m currently moored there now, I assure you it’s free 😄
These kinds of boats are normally £100k to £125k easy...You can get those small ones for £30k-£40k as well...Try to atleast Google before saying something guys...
LOL, I lived on 2 different actual narrowboats for 4 years - they're definitely not that much. Unless you buy a fancy brand new custom boat I paid £15k for a 66ft hull and another £15k for a full refit
The typical annual mooring fees in a London marina are 10k. It's still potentially better than flat sharing for the same money, but first you need the 50k to buy the boat.
The annoying parts I imagine is no fixed address so getting a job or having kids would be an issue with schools etc there’s not a whole lot you can do in London without a fixed address so would be hoping there’s a care of address with a family member or something. I don’t know if mooring works as an address or not. Still I bet it beats paying £2800 a month on rent in the city like I do
@@rhythmrida You can get a po box, set up post office collections or use a friends/family address. When it comes to taxes you're paying your part whenever you moor up in a marina.
When I was on my boat I woke up one morning 3am to loud heavy footsteps on my roof right above my head. Went out with a massive rolling pin to come eye to eye with the biggest fucking roof goose I'd ever seen in my life. Great big noisy flipper footed cunt.
she is actually so advanced in terms of forward thinking, since when the world is ravaged by the ‘tsunami of the end’, she’s just watching telly in her big boat…
I release music online, mix audio for tv and produce music for another company. I drive a 2023 electric vehicle and I'm saving approximately 1.5-2k a month for a deposit. I'm making about 5k a month, higher in the summers, sometimes 7k per month.@@daithi1487
@@daithi1487explain how? Also if she was on the doal then how would she be eligible for a loan off the bank? Banks look for financial responsibility…honestly some people man.
I know it's "tiny" but still a lot better than paying 600 pounds a month for a tiny room with a mattress in it trapped together with crazy flatmates. (That was my experience last year.)
So disappointing that people in London can't even find or afford a dignified home at this age I really felt sorry for her when she was struggling to open toilet door and anyone noticed the hacked USB chargers... But respect to you girl keep smiling
Or you could simply sail out into the sea or ocean and drop anchor and no fees at all and either swim to shore in a man overboard suit to keep you warm and afloat go ashore to work and then swim back or keep an even smaller boat on top of the bigger boat to sail back to shore to do the work @@SoSarahO
Very misleading story , we live on a Narrow Boat and the real costs are : Average per month Mooring £650 mouth Boat license £120 mouth Gas £20 month Electric £12 month Pump out £25 month Coal £30 month Blackening hull £80 month Insurance £ 30 month Repairs £120 month Survey £10 month £1090 per month minimum.
We go through there all the time! If you ever hear music artists performing on a red narrow boat floating down the canal with big film cameras, we're filming 'Coal Drop Sessions' with Universal Music 🙏🏻😊
@@paulkirton8945 when will the racism stop? Sure boats sink without maintenance, their engines pack up roofs leak and there's an annual a licence fee to waterways .. But... Official moorings are available for less than 1%..the vast majority are obliged to shuffle every 2 weeks to avoid fines. I don't know if your garden is on the canal bank you get a mooring..? Moorings are scarce in London and generally Camden and Islington will be far more than Haringey.. All permanent moorings are taken so everyone makes the 24 moves a year... I'm not sure how far., maybe one lock or section as mapped out by British waterways. I know of a long established squatted mooring in Hackney. but the vast majority can't get too settled in one spot. This is my understanding. It's relatively cheap for those who are part of the incoming waves of gentrification... But... There's no social housing boats available and very few squatters. Smaller boats in need of a load of work sometimes seem like a bargain , but where and how much is the nearest dry dock,? Can you even motor for Waltham Abbey? If you are Already wealthy you can buy a boat of top quality and comfort for a fraction of bricks and mortar if its kept updated and maintained I bet it'll increase in value over time... Unfortunately It's not, anytime soon, going to be an available option for the low paid who can't get the bank loan and don't have wealthy parents. Another example of social injustice and how the rich can end up paying less.
We moved onto our boat nearly nine years ago. It was a lifelong dream for me. I'm disabled so we have to have a mooring, which we pay for, but i wouldn't change it for anything.
honestly I am thinking do similar thing, I live in Brighton and we've got nearly the same prices as London, especially for rent. it's ridiculous how expensive things are getting everywhere 😢
My son brought a narrow boat last year. He works at a private school and moves the boat every 2 weeks otherwise you have mooring fees. He git rid of his car too. He loves it, he has all the mod cons but small space...even a Woodburner, so cosy even solar for cooking etc
£200/month in London with no flat mates is a steal
She has to move it every 2 weeks though
That boat price is 100k +
What a life we live in the UK
There'll also be a mooring fee, apparently this is typically around £6k a year in London, although apparently this can go upto 20k depending on the boat and where in London the mooring is
@@moto-motolol no it ain’t
I’m 28 and also live on a narrowboat, you have to pay river license and boat insurance each year, if you live on a marina you also pay mooring fees for the marina, it’s way cheaper than living in a building.
I can't live in confined spaces and don't like water
@@stephenhall9456 you might struggle then ;)
Exactly. I live literally a stones throw away from regents canal and it is not as cheap as she makes it out to be
@dom4534 still gonna be a much cheaper option
@@stephenhall9456 no one asked
I lived on a narrowboat for 13 years. It was THE life, brilliant community, solitude when wanted, wildlife on your doorstep. It's not the same now - the canals are so crowded and many of the folk moving in aren't as considerate of others, but if you haven't experienced what it was before it would still be a great option for those who aren't afraid of some graft.
How were the cold winter days?
And what does your referral to "graft" mean in context
@@OriginalMindTrick Narrowboats are effectively steel tubes, so very draft-free, and if well insulated, cosier than a room in a house. It's especially lovely if you have a solid wood stove - very cosy. And stove-top fans are an amazing technology, requiring no electricity, that moves the heat along the boat as well. Some boats suffer from condensation problems, but mine never did - It's a case of making sure there is adequate ventilation and no leaks anywhere - just the same as a house or a caravan.
@@Elvisism There are a lot of things that you wouldn't think about in a house that you have to work for on a boat - Toilets need to be emptied, whether that's a cassette loo, every few days, or a pump-out loo, every few months (but pump-outs require moving the boat itself to a special location each time and perhaps having to organise yourself through bridges and stoppages). You have to fill up your water tank regularly - maybe unrolling and rolling hoses on muddy towpaths in the depths of winter...Lugging coal or wood or gas bottles around to have fuel, for everyday things like cooking. That's just daily living. Then, like houses, but more so - they require maintenance. So you need to scrape and paint the bottom every couple of years or so, and keep on top of seals, rust, etc elsewhere too. You can pay someone to do these things of course, but if your issue is money, then you will be spending a lot of time and graft doing it yourself, especially if your boat is older. Things deteriorate rapidly due to the watery environment so there is no option of 'putting it off' if you don't want more work/expense down the line. And then there is often a lot of walking and carrying - bringing your shopping half a mile down a muddy towpath is a high possibility at least at times, depending on your mooring situation. All these sorts of things. There are some marinas that make all of this a lot easier, but they are getting more and more costly too - so if it's a cheap life you want, then you have to be able to graft.
@@relfyem Sounds like a living situation that requires you to able be quite conscientious and laborious. I think this is a reasonable sacrifice for the solitute, especially in modern life when everything is so accessible. The mindfulness maintainance seems to be able to bring might be good for people. Thanks for your help and experience.
My friend used to own a narrow boat in London, she spent so much on constantly having to repair her boat because of water damage, it was not affordable any longer, so she sold it.
That's what I thought. The maintenance costs!
Was gonna ask about the repairs underneath the water
@@DavidL1986I had my boat hull blacked 4 years ago and it needed welding because I'd left too long cause I couldn't afford to get it blacked, and it cost me nearly £3,000 to have the work done, and my family helped me to pay for it.
It's not quite what she says at the beginning 'i don't actually pay anything' there's a river license you have to pay, and then there are mooring fees. There's two options for that, one for if you move around a lot, or one for if you stay moored in the same place most of the time.
Can't remember the details fully, briefly looked into living on a house/narrow boat the other day. It is probably overall cheaper than what the rent might be in a house, but it's not free. You pay an equivalent of rent.
True, but she'll own the boat when the loan is paid off. A renter won't own anything. She could sell that boat and use it as the deposit for a house.
That was such a genuine interaction not staged for a video at all 😂
Yeah, I’m not sure why he doesn’t set these videos up in a way that introduces these people to the audience formally. There’s 0 reason to pretend like this isn’t set up, especially in an age where the audience knows it is lol.
@@rjayyyy9623 fully agree when you see that staged fake intro and meet I find it so cringe worthy that the video would instantly get a dislike and most likely a do not recommend channel aswell it's a shame because these types of videos could be interesting. If they didn't treat their viewers like children.
it gets mpre views that way i guess so maker doesnt care maybe
He talks like a robot aswell, like Stephen hawkin
I live in a caravan, its freezing and has no running water directly to it. No electricity and i even have a hoole in the ceiling that leaks 😂 Its very uncomfortable but i love it, its mine and its helping me change my life by making my videos from it. I have such little outgoings now that i dont have to works lots, which frees me up to make my vids 😊 There are other ways of living, we dont HAVE to live the way we have been told we need to. Much love to all ❤
We deserve so much better ❤
I did subscribe just to support you.
It's a pity you can't fix the leak. There are lots of inexpensive quick fixes. Dampness can make you miserable.
I'll subscribe too.... choosing freedom over comfort is definitely a master move. 🙌🤝💚
I also live in a caravan and had the same issue bloody cold in winter,I fitted a camping stove (log burner) last year and the difference is unreal,I find myself having to open a window to cool off sumtimes as for electric I book my electric up to my car battery 🔋 I don't have running water but I have 2 large water butts I fill up which will last me 3,4 days
Good on her . I lived on a boat for several years when i was younger , wouldn't want to do it again these days but it teaches resilience and develops a sense of adventure . Cost is a secondary consideration .
I know that area very well, it’s near Broadway market in east London and very close to Victoria Park. When I was a kid me and my mates use to go down to that canal with our fishing nets to catch tiny fish and place them in our glass pickled gherkin jars filled with water before later releasing them back in the canal. We would also ride our BMX’s along that same canal, travelling in both directions, towards Victoria Park and Regents Zoo and Camden Lock. This lady sounds posh but in my day before that area was gentrified it was affordable with many cockneys like myself living there. Sadly most of the real east Enders that we’re born and bred there have either died or moved out of London or abroad because it’s so expensive to live there.
Your childhood experiences sound great 😊
thanks for sharing your memories 💛
gentrification has destroyed working class communities. Just as 2nd home owners in the countryside and landlords buying up cheap housing to rent out for profit. This generation are being screwed hard for housing and the government are just allowing it.
Yeh this is not including an awful lot of costs. Still cheaper than normal rent sure, but its not just her loan. Theres river lisence, insurance and no chance of a long term mooring in london without a substantial fee. There will also be very different soend in terms of utilities. Will need a generator for the electricity so fuel for that, and ofc when you need to move mooring. And for the heating source whether thats wood or whatever. Would need to account for differences in utility cost whichever way that turns out. Which will depend a lot on efficiency. Solar pannels would help am awful lot of course.
Did I not spot some solar already in place on top?
Londoners are so damn innovative
Not all
She's definitely not from London
wouldnt have to be if house and rent prices were reasonable and not a literal rip off
Agreed she not from London, Londoners sink in the own expensive shit! Just to say hey I’m from London 😂 and the wouldn’t live on a boat. They pay £1500pm for box rooms ☠️
So you've surmised that based on ONE random video?
I live on a narrow boat and have done so for about 15 years, and I wouldn't say it is cheap way of living. And I'm nowhere near London, but if you add everything up, it's not that much cheaper than living in a house, well in Wiltshire anyway. But it can be more enjoyable especially out in the countryside, but that also makes you more vulnerable, so you have to take that into account.
most londoners in boats abuse the continuous cruising licence which means genuine narrow boat cruisers cant access the facilities they contribute to
Youre forgetting the boat mantinance, the mooring fees, plus you still have to pay council tax, fuel, have to follow boating rules like moving it. Winter is tough as snow can sink the boats. So it all adds up about the same as rent for a flat. I fell for the van life fad only to end up paying the same price as my old flat but with less space and more hassle.
Would you pay council tax if you moved out of the local council zones I wonder?
no council tax if not in a marina
So my partner and I are about to do this.
We have just given notice on our house, which is £995 a month, just rent!!!, and sold all our furniture, and we are moving in with my dad for a year/18 months on 1st December to save for our own boat.
Once we own the narrowboat, our plan is to save a deposit for a house and rent it out.
Living rent-free whilst someone else buys us a house 😎
It's worth a try, right? 😂
Good to have a goal.
Was on my long boat and saw her she is so lovely and her boat and art is amazing
I lived on a narrowboat for around 3 months loved it so relaxing
Why did you stop out of curisoity?
It was my girlfriends parents they decided to sell it
Wow sounds like an adventure. Genuine question, did you feel safe from weirdos or robbers? Also, did you ever get naucious?
@@amani1096 hiya yeah it was kept on a private water way some people luve on it 365 so everyone knows everybody went on the canal twice to diesel up if i cud i'd live on one all the time loved it the only nuisance was the ducks when i pulled my work truck up they'd come rnd the boat see if we had any scraps for them if you've the chance i'd say jump at it keep the water topped n diesel charge the batterys (run the engine) but honestly i loved it
Living the life! Power to her x
That's not a great life lol
@@pjkyEverybody's idea of a great life is different. How have you grown up and not realised that the people feel differently about things to you? Different hobbies, different likes and dislikes, different personalities, different expectations etc. Some people adore peace and quiet and simplicity. Some people are more materialistic and just want to own loads of things. Who are you to judge what someone else's idea of a good life is? 😂 Just because you're miserable with your own life.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 I'm sure she's very happy but that's smaller than a prison cell surrounded by 2 other boats with probably no water pressure. If she moves to Essex she can stay in a 1bed with a garden. Just being objective here, this is the internet and you are the one sounding miserable:/
@@pjkyI think she rather live in a lovely boat and sail around England rather live in a 1 bed house and small garden in Essex
@@pjkyYou can get a mansion up north for like £345,000
She has to pay something for mooring it there too. She didn’t say that. Assuming a length of 15 meters (an average length for a narrowboat) and £250 per year per meter which is what it costs to moor in London on the themes, it’s probably an additional £312 a month for that so she would be actually paying about £512 a month. Assuming that’s all the fees.
Boat maintenance, fuel, heating...
She won the London game,this is even more impressive than the guy who renovated the skip 😮
Mate she lives on a boat, she won nothing 😂
@@thetrophysystem3697compared to most people her age and older living in house/flatshares for >1k a month, this is absolutely a win 😂 she has her own space, somewhat equivalent to a studio apartment but even significantly cheaper than that.
@@Ke1ko7yeah but she lives on a fucking boat mush like
this is bullshit
She has made herself a beautiful home.The gentle rocking of the boat would be so nice for sleeping.Its so cozy looking.
having a postal address that is solid for all official matters is difficult if you operate completely solo and can't depend on friends or family. tthe law needs to change to make it easier and accessible for boaters
She can get a po box or a virtual address.
@@pineapplesandvibes3277 sure that works for some things but not the for the official stuff. have you been able to setup a bank account using these methods or the DWP use this route for pensions for example? i am not trying to catch you out, but if you know of a specific bank or whatever that can do this then i am super interested. I have heared of some virtual addresses but the cost is prohibitive so living on a boat costs increases because of the need for an address.
I equated it to American Snow birds…. Retirees (or those luck enough to do office work remotely) who live in RVs or conversion vehicles, but have access to a structure when situations require it
@@brettuk Surprisingly, you can absolutely set up a bank accound or DWP accounts using a P.O Box. It's actually how a _lot_ of businesses set up their accounts. I believe there is actually a special type of P.O Box for people who live on narrowboats/canal boats and if you've had to move on to another town miles away they can even arrange to have your mail forwarded to the next nearest P.O Box location.
@@brettuk Yes you can, I set up a business bank account with my virtual address. I even registered my company with it. You can do most things with a virtual address.
Artist life. It's the best life. All artists feel the need to be as free as possible. The world needs more of them.
We really don't need more artists. It's fine with the ones we have, but we really don't need more...
We need nurses, bus drivers, bakers, farmers.....
we need entrepreneurs and economic growth to subsidise the alternative lifestyles. without that it will ALL collapse.
@@stephengodsmark4353 exactly. There's a shortage of the essential workers were I live, because the pay and working environments are not great and many people prefer to go to uni after school, any many choose to study liberal arts.
But we only need so many sociologists etc.
as long as they don't vote, total knobheads politically
Wait till you have to hire a crane and have it lifted out of the water for inspection - every 5 years (without a Hull integrity & safety certificate no company will insure you) and while out the water you must strip and re-black the hull. That'll put your rent up
You can have 3rd party insurance without a survey.
Even if constantly moving so not having mooring fees, there are Canal & Waterways fees, plus regular maintenance, bills as usual, fuel to keep moving and using the stove for heating. Bilge checks, Black Bottoming of the boat etc
So it's expensive.
@@mpazinambao2938depends on the area, rent in london is crazy. To rent a studio flat in the area where her boat is moored could cost £1200-1600 and she would have a very hard time finding a flat because she has a dog. Plus council tax and utility bills, it could cost almost £2000 per month. So living in a boat is definitely way cheaper in this case.
I remember when i lived on a narrow boat and i loved every bit of it
She said she pays £200 a month for the loan that she got to buy the boat! The boat mooring in london is around £600 a month . Boats need insurance to allow london mooring and on average they cost £150 a month in bills ( gas , electric , water , sewage etc )
She’s basically paying £950 a month so think twice before getting excited and handing in your notices to your landlords 😂
THAT SOUNDS AND LOOKS A LOT BETTER THAN LIVING IN A MOTORHOME
Well they’re a lot bigger for one.
Mate lives one one of these and every 2 weeks he's gotta move otherwise the river authority fines you. Marina expenses have doubled in the last year and most of them don't let you work on your boat inside the marina or stay moored all year round...
You have to pay to moor at a marina, otherwise you have to move all the time.
Narrow boats can be disgustingly hot in the summer and freezing any other time.
Firewood/coal is expensive and depending on the marina you moor at, they might force you to use smokeless coal which is expensive.
A narrow boat can also cost more than a deposit on a house, so you still have to be privileged enough to be able to afford it (N.B: commented in 2023 when inflation/housing prices have rocketed)
Priviliged? Or you just save some money. Or get a loan like she said.
@@ln5747a loan at 15% interest lol no chance she did that. It'll be a 'loan' from daddy.
Absolutely genius, not once had I ever thought about living on a boat.
Genuinely will be researching that option next thanks to this vid
Research very carefully and don't forget about boat maintenance and dry dock for routine sealing and waterproofing. Anode changing etc
Chances are if there were suitable canals in your area it would've occured to you.
@@Sharpshooter99100that’s why you buy a boat that’s amazing condition externally then you won’t worry about that for a long time
@@ajaytranter2655
What happens when the rivers burst the banks… So amazing condition or not, doesn’t mean you won’t have to work on it for years
@@Truth-Seeker-1111 what happens to your house when it gets burgled . What happens when we have a storm . What happens when the pipes burst . Same thing regardless where what you live in
Mooring rates in London are expensive at least 10k a year, boat licence etc
So is she lying?
I think the canal license is just over £1k per year and if she moves every two weeks she doesn’t have to pay to moor. But factor in the diesel cost and maintenance of the boat it’s very much cheaper than a house. Lots of young people are doing this in London now especially Hackney area.
@@kanoye1887no you can keep moving and just tell the council to go f themselves
@@kanoye1887kind of, she said she pays nothing at the start but she still has bills to pay, mooring, boat licence, fuel, WiFi or Internet connection plus the fee to buy the boat which must be at least a 100k loan... not bad but still bs she has to live in a skinny boat just because London landlords are mugging everyone off
@@olliejames2899£30k for the boat and approx £2k a year (all bills and fuel etc) all in
Bless u for finding a home for you and yr lovely dog 😊
Looks amazing and so great she can have her dog.
River trust Insurance for a boat is £14.50pm depending on size, either cabin cruiser or a narrow boat
Get a boat between 2 and 3 births that runs but needs minor work. Spend around 3-5k
Get yourself on the grand union canal (london)
Remember, your insurance will be a LOT cheaper if you get a continuous cruiser where you will need to move every 14 days, and that's just a mile every 2 weeks.
For the people saying its more expenisve than £200 a month-
If you are paying mooring fees it is probably very expensive, unles you get a really good deal from someone who owns the mooring. But if you are continous cruising it is cheap. The liscense to cruise depends on the size of the boat, it ranges from about £600 to £1800 a year. Insurance costs a little under £200. Diesel probably costs around £1500 a year (and obviously this will continue to rise per year). If you have a cassette toilet it doesnt cost anything to empty it. If she has solar panels electricity will be free during the day, at night i inagine she will run off of diesel. Heating the boat really depends on your set up, she could use a conbination of solid fuel, radiators powered bt diesel and solar heating, and if ahes hardy and puts in a jumper she might just survive with a chily boat, but kets say around £3-500 a year if she mainly use solid fuel. Cooking will probably use gas, which is peetty cheap if youre caeeful- lets say 150 a year.
So far, thats about 200 a month give or take. There are extra costs, but they really depend on how much yoh do yourself- maintenance, particularly of the engine, boat blacking,other repairs (these will vary but it will be a constant process of things needing maintenance.). Some of this stuff tou can do ince and be fine for another twn years. Other stuff will need dealing with more frequently. But over tine the cost may well get less because once you have the equipment you need to do the work you can remove that cost from your total. I reckon you should be comforrable with setting aside £5000 for emergency expenses, but i reckon your diy costs will be maybe 500 a year, plus the cost of taking the boat out the water and paint every two years for blacking which is maybe another 500.
That all comes to under 300 a month for both maintenance and cost of living. Lets add an extra £1000 a year onto that to cover anything ive forgotten. Thats less than £400 a month. The average rent in london is over £1000. That doesnt include bills or council tax (whoch you dont pay on a boat if you ckntinously cruise)
So it is massively cheaper. The trade off is it is A LOT OF WORK! You have to mive every 2 weeks, you have to dwal with the elements, its a small living space, its cold, you have to deal with your shit, you have to repair stuff. Its not easy. But for the right person it is incredibly rewarding, and is an extremely cheap wzy of living.
I think of it like this- if you live in a house you are paying for your life in money. If you live on a boat you pay wya less money, but that is offset by needing to invest more time. So its perfect if youre a freelance artist, but if you have a 9-5 living on a boat might not be for you.
This is misleading. There are fees and licenses to live on a houseboat in London. How much depends on where and how often you move the boat.
That's probably daddy's issue
Also fees depend on how long your boat is, plus fuel and every 3 years it needs to go in for blacking and every 3/5 years (depending on where you are) you need a safety cert. Also there's insurance. More like living in a floating truck really.
Think about how much "other" stuff you have to pay for a flat too... Council tax, water rates, electric and gas standing charges. This lot is about £150 a month and you get nothing really for it that you can't have on a boat without those charges.
You are an artist and you got a bank loan for a boat .....😮😮
Love her spirit and enthusiasm !!!
Love the colours and decorating. It’s a bohemian dream home.
What a nice young woman. 😊
this woman must be Continuous cruisering otherwise she would have to pay for her mooring which means You’ll need to continually move from place to place on a journey, rather than just shuttling back and forth between places and remaining in a small area
I've known several people who live on boats in London, it's not the rent that'll get you, it's all the additional expenses of keeping and mooring a boat.
When I was working in wales on a holiday park in a mobile home it did feel cold but i felt comfortable less cramped i felt than living in a house 😊😊😊
Moored right next to broadway market as well! Amazing saturday market there!
London fields?
I recognised it too. Next to the gas structures
I really want to buy a narrow boat… I live in London and it’s crazy expensive!
"How natural do you want this chance meeting to look?"
"No"
I’m curious about maintenance cost. As someone who grew up with a family sailboat, the price of the boat isn’t necessarily the issue. It’s the cleaning, maintenance of the hull, cost of repairs that will essentially make you understand the joking acronym of (B.O.A.T) BANG OUT ANOTHER THOUSAND 😂
Owning a keelboat is like standing under a cold shower tearing up 20 pound notes.
:-)
Another favourite is a boat is a hole in the water you try to fill with money.
Luv and Peace.
"Straight into the bedroom"
That's my kinda girl!
😂😂
She does pay something, moring a boat is not free especially in London
She doesn't pay for a mooring.
Yes it is free to Moore anywhere unless there’s signs that say otherwise.
You pay your insurance and annual canal license and that’s it.
I’m currently moored there now, I assure you it’s free 😄
Bro forgot his text at the beginning
A narrow boat and a dog is a dream of mine! Good luck to her
Do it, I've been onboard now for 18yrs and now I work less hours I finally purchased a dog "and" a cat!!
My life's complete!!🐶🐱😂
"hi my names shannon im unemployed and my dad bought me a boat"
💯
Must be great loving such a judgmental ignorant life like you
She said she pays the loan for the boat, so.
You seem jealous
You suck
These kinds of boats are normally £100k to £125k easy...You can get those small ones for £30k-£40k as well...Try to atleast Google before saying something guys...
LOL, I lived on 2 different actual narrowboats for 4 years - they're definitely not that much. Unless you buy a fancy brand new custom boat
I paid £15k for a 66ft hull and another £15k for a full refit
Beautiful and very minimalist💖
The typical annual mooring fees in a London marina are 10k.
It's still potentially better than flat sharing for the same money, but first you need the 50k to buy the boat.
That’s why you don’t pay for marina’s and stay on 24/48hr and 2 week moorings for free
You just have a minimum yearly distance you have to move as well I think.
The annoying parts I imagine is no fixed address so getting a job or having kids would be an issue with schools etc there’s not a whole lot you can do in London without a fixed address so would be hoping there’s a care of address with a family member or something. I don’t know if mooring works as an address or not. Still I bet it beats paying £2800 a month on rent in the city like I do
@@rhythmrida You can get a po box, set up post office collections or use a friends/family address.
When it comes to taxes you're paying your part whenever you moor up in a marina.
@@eddiel7635 Not if you're paying mooring fees. That's only if you're a continuous cruiser.
Absolutely perfect! 💖🌟
No upstairs neighbours who walk around all day with their elephant feet. She’s a winner.
I always rent top floor. I hate neighbors
When I was on my boat I woke up one morning 3am to loud heavy footsteps on my roof right above my head. Went out with a massive rolling pin to come eye to eye with the biggest fucking roof goose I'd ever seen in my life. Great big noisy flipper footed cunt.
she is actually so advanced in terms of forward thinking, since when the world is ravaged by the ‘tsunami of the end’, she’s just watching telly in her big boat…
"im an artist" = im on the dole
Not always the case. People can construct a career around their art and passions and not spend a third of the only life they have working some job.
@@Kloppsserialbottlersalways the case..
I release music online, mix audio for tv and produce music for another company. I drive a 2023 electric vehicle and I'm saving approximately 1.5-2k a month for a deposit. I'm making about 5k a month, higher in the summers, sometimes 7k per month.@@daithi1487
@@daithi1487explain how? Also if she was on the doal then how would she be eligible for a loan off the bank? Banks look for financial responsibility…honestly some people man.
Try getting a bank loan on the dole.
Love it I wouldn't mind it with my 2 pugs How relaxing 😎
I also live on a boat, Stop telling everyone or the canals will end up like the M25 in rush_hour!!😂
I know it's "tiny" but still a lot better than paying 600 pounds a month for a tiny room with a mattress in it trapped together with crazy flatmates. (That was my experience last year.)
So disappointing that people in London can't even find or afford a dignified home at this age I really felt sorry for her when she was struggling to open toilet door and anyone noticed the hacked USB chargers...
But respect to you girl keep smiling
She forgets to mention the mooring rent which changes depending on where you are but is still rent. It ain't free!
No mooring rent if you're a constant cruiser, just need a river/canal license & move every two weeks.
Or you could simply sail out into the sea or ocean and drop anchor and no fees at all and either swim to shore in a man overboard suit to keep you warm and afloat go ashore to work and then swim back or keep an even smaller boat on top of the bigger boat to sail back to shore to do the work @@SoSarahO
You obviously know f all about mooring fee's.
Very misleading story , we live on a Narrow Boat and the real costs are :
Average per month
Mooring £650 mouth
Boat license £120 mouth
Gas £20 month
Electric £12 month
Pump out £25 month
Coal £30 month
Blackening hull £80 month
Insurance £ 30 month
Repairs £120 month
Survey £10 month
£1090 per month minimum.
Aww..Gilbert is lucky to have a lovely mom..nice place🎉
I would say shes constantly cruising and thats free, you just move every 2 weeks!
More like constantly mooring
Great little boat house.
That's actually smart af. Well played to her.
Its as big as a 4 thousand a month, NYC apartment. And no rats!
This is very cool. But I do worry abt the safety.
She'll be fine, the water communities are usually pretty tight here
Its not that deep at most points where the boats are kept.
@@westcoast20007it’s not the deepness it’s the creepy men to worry about, but London is quite safe tbf
@@ninjabrown8560London safe 😂😂😂 a failed society… a city in decline … far from safe
@@BigDturpintate fan spotted😂
I just googled and it said £200 a night not a month!
Why would it be 200 pound a night
This is going to get a lot more expensive now it's being popularised.
Fellow narrowboater here.... Been on it for four years now.
Wanna give me a tour of it ?
You have to pay for fuel and water supply
you don't pay for water...its part of your CRT licence fee
Cool as you like ! Amazing place you have, congratulations 😎
Lovely way of life, simple and cosy.
We go through there all the time! If you ever hear music artists performing on a red narrow boat floating down the canal with big film cameras, we're filming 'Coal Drop Sessions' with Universal Music 🙏🏻😊
This is absolutely perfect.
You okay?
@@Sakazuki-San are you? She absolutely is
unfortunately new taxes are being introduced that are going to shaft narrowboat dwellers, because nobody is allowed to have a good life
The Bureau of Land Management is raising the cost of long term living permit to $300 from $180.
They will keep finding ways to crush people.
He had a stroke trying to say that
You have to pay mooring fees normally
And they have to be lifted out now and then to be " reblacked".
Most don't, they move every 2 weeks.. Permanent moorings are very scarce.
No you don’t, that’s only if you have a permanent mooring.
@@paulkirton8945 when will the racism stop? Sure boats sink without maintenance, their engines pack up roofs leak and there's an annual a licence fee to waterways .. But... Official moorings are available for less than 1%..the vast majority are obliged to shuffle every 2 weeks to avoid fines. I don't know if your garden is on the canal bank you get a mooring..? Moorings are scarce in London and generally Camden and Islington will be far more than Haringey.. All permanent moorings are taken so everyone makes the 24 moves a year... I'm not sure how far., maybe one lock or section as mapped out by British waterways. I know of a long established squatted mooring in Hackney. but the vast majority can't get too settled in one spot. This is my understanding. It's relatively cheap for those who are part of the incoming waves of gentrification... But... There's no social housing boats available and very few squatters. Smaller boats in need of a load of work sometimes seem like a bargain , but where and how much is the nearest dry dock,? Can you even motor for Waltham Abbey? If you are Already wealthy you can buy a boat of top quality and comfort for a fraction of bricks and mortar if its kept updated and maintained I bet it'll increase in value over time... Unfortunately It's not, anytime soon, going to be an available option for the low paid who can't get the bank loan and don't have wealthy parents. Another example of social injustice and how the rich can end up paying less.
Aww all because ❤ of Gilbert 😊 was thinking of doing the same thing. Go Shannon!
It’s like everyone is now asking ‘strangers’ their rent price, crazy how easy it is to set trends on the internet
Add the marina fees to that £200 unless she's 'a constant cruiser'
It didn't look like she was moored on a marina
We moved onto our boat nearly nine years ago. It was a lifelong dream for me. I'm disabled so we have to have a mooring, which we pay for, but i wouldn't change it for anything.
That's one of the best home's I've seen on this channel much respect to you
People who are working from home in London, should all move away.
honestly I am thinking do similar thing, I live in Brighton and we've got nearly the same prices as London, especially for rent. it's ridiculous how expensive things are getting everywhere 😢
My son brought a narrow boat last year. He works at a private school and moves the boat every 2 weeks otherwise you have mooring fees. He git rid of his car too. He loves it, he has all the mod cons but small space...even a Woodburner, so cosy even solar for cooking etc
"Can i come and see your home?"
" What, thats why we are filming this! "
Thought that was a heart transplant scar
I used to live on a boat next to her, we dated for a while but eventually drifted apart....
"Come on gilbs" gets trapped in the door 😂❤
But you have to move around otherwise you do have to pay
It’s amazing! So cozy
So this generation live in skips,barges, vans, tents......5th largest economy....Good job England 👍
I live on narrowboat and it costs me £1200 year for absolutely everything
Not included: £250 - £1,500 per month mooring costs, £650 - £1,450 per annum river licence, BSS certificate, mandatory insurance policy.