I'm a 34-year-old who lives on a boat in the canals of England. It was the least expensive way to buy a home and allows me to lead an extraordinary life.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Elizabeth Earle, 34, about her experience living on a 70-foot narrowboat from the 1920s in the English countryside since April 2022. Earle is an author and illustrator from Warwickshire, England. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
I spent a lot of money on her. I made a lot of mistakes with some cowboy builders, so really the money that I made out of her is probably the money that I put into her renovation and the mistakes. You usually have to show proof of an income over a certain amount of years, and then you save up a deposit of about 10% or 20% to apply for a mortgage. Bob's your uncle. But this is why there's a stereotypical view of the starving artist. The price for a house in England is a bit ridiculous at the moment.
A big expense will be your canal and river trust license, which for me is £650 every six months. On top of that I pay £350 quarterly for my diesel. I have diesel to run my engine and that tops off my batteries. And on top of that is coal for the fireplace. A bag of coal for me is about £8 a bag, and it lasts me two and a half days.
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