boats aren't expensive, especially the older they are. fixing boats properly is expensive, but you also don't really need to do that. My dad had a racing boat when I was a kid, it cost him $400.. I bought a dinghy last year for $200. That's less than the cost of a game console. And it costs literally nothing to go take it out on the water.

There are a lot of people in the world. Like a loooooot. Even if the % of non normies is only like 0.01% of the population that would easily explain those boats.

The ideas that normies don't sail isn't true. I'm a normie and not rich and I started a sailing school because it's fun as hell. You don't need ^to ^own a boat to go sailing, you only need to know how.

I have a friend who grew up on the coast and her family always sailed for fun.

When she got divorced she bought a sailboat and traveled for a bit in it. She then parked it at a marina and lived in it for so many years close to her kids and grandkids. She paid $100K for boat and her marina fees were $300/month. The boat was paid off with the divorce settlement.

The cheapest 1 bedroom apartment to rent nearby was $3500/month for less square footage than her boat. The cheapest small house was around $1,000,000 or around $6000/ month at the time. The homes around the marina were all priced at several million dollars.

My dad used to own a sailboat, which was a high point for someone squarely middle class. We're talking a 44 ft sailboat.

These things are holes in the water who the fuck wants a boat

Sailboats aren’t prohibitively expensive for a normie, especially if you buy a used one. If you look at the large empty houses near every harbor though, you’ll see a better sign of the wealth disparity. The rich own multiple houses worth millions each and they seem to be rarely used while many people can’t afford a starter home now.

Same people who own all the empty properties, residential and commercial; Fucking leaches, that's who.

It’s like when you drive through an area that’s all McMansions you’re like “how they hell are there this many people with enough money and poor enough taste to own all these McMansions”? I guess the thing is that money people property sprawls out, whereas most of us live in a container city down a hole clustered around a sewer outlet so thousands don’t take up that much space.

Ah you are on to John Boatman I see....

everywhere I go in the world there are giant marinas with a million boats

I've told you a MILLION times to NOT EXAGGERATE!

And how do you get to go everywhere in the world, that marinas stand front and center of your attention? Could it be that you go... on your boat?

This boat made me fixated on the idea of buying a boat and living in it.

While the buying part is plausible.

The living is a lot fucking harder.

The two best days in a boaters life:

The day they buy their boat; and the day they sell their boat.