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Rent in cities like NYC and San Francisco is so expensive that it's pricing people out of the real-estate market, and some of them are turning to houseboats instead

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In cities like San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, residents are living in houseboats to avoid the city's steep housing costs.

Housing costs have become so expensive in some cities that urban-dwellers are living in houseboats instead of apartments.reported Alyson Krueger for The New York Times

For residents, living on a houseboat evokes a certain kind of lifestyle that can feel like a vacation and bring them close to nature, Krueger said.

 

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