Author: The Floating Residence
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One Word, Two Systems
What 384 Feet of Yacht in Venice Reveals About Living on the Water The Floating Residence | Editorial Analysis | July 2026 On July 17, roughly three hundred Venetians marched toward Riva dei Sette Martiri to protest a boat. Not boats generally — one boat. The Boardwalk, a 384-foot Lürssen delivered in May to Tilman…
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The Question at the Water’s Edge
A woman in Darwin audits every legal place left to live. Darwin runs out of land before she runs out of options — and stops exactly where this publication begins. The Floating Residence | Intelligence Series | Cornerstone Analysis There is a genre of video appearing with increasing frequency across the English-speaking world. The production…
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Engineered to Yield
What a Dutch River Town, a Panamanian Sea Pod, and a $140 Billion Loss Year Reveal About the Future of Floating Resilience The Floating Residence | Intelligence Series On January 12, 2011, the Maas River rose over its banks in the Dutch town of Maasbommel and did what rivers do to houses built on floodplains.…
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“Prolonged Sitting”
A Van Lifer Buys Lunch, Parks Legally, and Gets Nineteen Minutes. What Happens Next Explains the Whole Crisis. The Floating Residence | Commentary | 2026 The video is nineteen minutes long, and the food is still hot at the end of it. A working van lifer in St. Petersburg, Florida — employed, housed in her…
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The Decision Tax
Why van life burns people out in eighteen months — and what a marina slip solves that a Sprinter never can Commentary | The Floating Residence A recently circulated analysis of the van-life resale market — two years of resale listings, community forums, and exit interviews compiled by an independent researcher — opens with a…
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Avoid Regret
Even though this is an AI generated video it has some good advice and feedback. This is an important video to watch through if you are building your retirement around a boat. Learn how to be the happy and thriving group of boat owners instead of the ones who regret the purchase. It leaves you…
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The Last Anchorage
What the Slow Death of Richardson Bay’s Anchor-Out Community Reveals About America’s Refusal to Recognize Water as Housing An editorial analysis from The Floating Residence Five miles north of San Francisco, in a shallow arm of the bay framed by some of the most expensive residential hillsides in the United States, a housing category is…