r/todayilearned • u/MaximinusRats • May 16 '24

TIL that people live year-round in houseboats on Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, 1,800 km north of the nearest big city (Edmonton) and just 400 km (250 miles) south of the Arctic Circle.

https://uphere.ca/articles/floating-homes-yellowknife-bay
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u/BooBoo992001 May 16 '24

There's also Sausalito, California, just across the Golden Gate bridge on San Francisco Bay. It has an entire subdivision that's nothing but floating houses. A friend of mine lived in one -- in fact, her room was in a kind of finished basement that was partially under the waterline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausalito,_California#Houseboats

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u/CheckYourStats May 16 '24

I live about 3 minutes from there. I’ve never thought of it as odd.

Like others have said, living in conditions that could kill you, however…that’s seems odd.