Norfolk advice
So just to give a brief explanation as to how I ended up here.
I am in my 40's and have never had enough money to put a deposit down on a mortgage. Therefore I've been renting since I moved out of my parents house over 20.years ago.
However, in the not too distant future, I will be coming into an inheritance. At the moment I don't know how much this will be, but it might be enough to put down a deposit on a flat or a small house.
As I was just casually browsing Rightmove one day a thought came to me. Maybe it will be enough to buy a boat. Then I'll have no mortgage or rent to pay(I'm aware that living on a boat presents other problems).
I don't really know much about boats, but I live in Norfolk, which I would have thought would be a perfect place to liveaboatd, as I'm surrounded by water with the Broads and the coast.
It seems however that j was wrong as doing a bit of research, the Broads Authority(who seem to control all the waterways round here) strongly discourage liveaboatds.
I have a friend who told me he used to live on a boat on the Broads, so I asked him how he done it. He said he had an agreement with an elderly lady who lived in a house with a garden that backed on to the river. In exchange for doing some gardening and odd jobs around the house, she let him moor his boat at the bottom of the garden.
Assuming I won't get lucky enough to find this sort of deal, should I just forget this idea entirely, or is it possible to live on the Broads?
When I say Norfolk, I really mean as close to Norwich as possible because I need to go to Norwich for work. I did see that there are some liveaboatds in the Downham Market area but that's a bit too far out really.