Bartleby Scrivener

Wow. Just wow. Thanks Dave for your sensible answer to what I asked. I understand a lot better now. I think I will be fine, there is a few hundred miles of canal I can travel along so I don't think there will be a problem other than with the neighbours it seems. Do the canals make everyone crazy?

Thanks for the helpful posts. It has cleared things up a little but it still worries me that I get a boat made to order and might end up stuck in a marina. It would be much easier if the areas were defined, perhaps I will wait until that happens. Our ideal would be to move a little every day as I am the only one who works. From the impression i'm getting 10 miles a fortnight should easily meet the criteria of 'neighbourhood' but because I have a permanent job the CRT may stop me? I am unaware of restrictions but looking at maps of the canals I like the idea of moving from bishops storford south through london and back up to tring at a slow rate which is I guess a lot more than the 50 miles initially stated and taking the speed of the route mentioned round bath, would take me over a year anyway!

I have been searching around this subject for a while and don't mean to start a massive argument, but I can't work out what the requirements are because they are so badly written. “Place” in this context means a neighbourhood or locality. Is surely doublespeak? I ask because I would like to live on a boat, moving at least once a week, off the top of my head say a 5 mile trip each week. I would like to stay within 25 miles of my workplace which is literally on the Grand Union so that would give me a stretch of 50 miles. This was just an idea of what would be a nice way to live, but I can't work out if this is acceptable or at what point it becomes unacceptable. It is obviously a big undertaking and I don't want to have to buy the boat and start boating to find out what the canal people mean by neighbourhood or place or locality. It's putting me off all ready. I can afford a mooring anyway if necessary but I don't want to have to be on the mooring as that kind of defeats the point for me and I would rather have a flat overlooking the water in that case. I like the idea of a different view and neighbours at least once a week.